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his last voyage from Ulea to Feis, with two of his 

 countrymen and a chief from Eap, who was return- 

 ing to his native place, when storms drove the boat 

 from her course. The mariners, if we may credit 

 their very uncertain reckoning, drifted about in the 

 open sea for eight months. Their scanty stock of 

 provisions lasted them three months; for five months 

 they lived without fresh water, merely on the fish 

 they caught. To alleviate their thirst, Kadu dived 

 into the depth of the ocean, and brought up in a cocoa 

 shell cooler water, which, according to their opinion, 

 was Hkewise less salt. The north-east monsoon at 

 length blew them on the group of Aur, of the 

 Radack chain, where they fancied themselves west 

 of Ulea. Kadu had received information from an 

 old man in Eap of Radack and Ralick; some mari- 

 ners from Eap are said to have been once cast upon 

 Radack on the group of Aur, from whence they 

 found their way back, by way of Nugor and Ulea, 

 to Eap. The names of Radack and Ralick were 

 also known to a native of Lamureck, whom we met 

 with at Guahon. Boats from Ulea and the sur- 

 rounding islands are frequently cast upon the 

 eastern island chains, and there are still li\dng on 

 the group of Arno, of the Radack chain, five 

 natives of Lamureck, whom a similiar fate brought 

 tliere in the same manner. 



The chiefs of Radack protected the strangers 

 against the rapacity of their people, whose avarice 

 was excited by the iron wliich they possessed. 



