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tlement, under the superintendance of an officer, 

 while, on the contrary, there are no habitations on 

 the island of Tinian : it is only visited for the 

 cultivation of rice. We were informed that there 

 were in Tinian, oxen, hogs, and goats ; in Saypan, 

 oxen and hogs ; and in Agrigan, hogs and goats, 

 in a wild state. 



Several Carolinians who have received baptism 

 have settled at Guahon ; we found but a few of 

 them there at the time. Some had obtained per- 

 mission from the Governor to visit their friends in 

 their islands, and had gone there in the preceding 

 year, with the fleet from Lamureck. 



It still remains to be explained why natives of 

 the Sandwich islands can be counted among the 

 inhabitants of Guahon on the annexed table. 



The reader has found, in another part of this 

 voyage, a circumstantial account of the kidnapping 

 of the people from Easter Island, which was per- 

 petrated by the captain of an American ship, with 

 violence and bloodshed, for the purpose of founding 

 a settlement on the Galepagos islands. 



The trade of this ocean makes it desirable for 

 the navigators who possess it, to have similar 

 settlements on the more eastern islands. Their 

 connection with the Sandwich islands renders the 

 stealing of people easy there ; and the island of 

 Agrigan, one of the most northern of the Marianas, 

 seemed to be particularly adapted for such a set- 

 tlement, though it is mountainous, unfit for cul- 



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