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among us, celebrated, in the language of Ulea, the 

 names of Samuel Borman (he pronounced it More- 

 mal) and Luis. This song referred to the Euro- 

 pean ship which visited Ulea at the time when 

 Kadu was absent on his voyage. Waghal appeared 

 in Kadu's account a large country, where there 

 were oxen, iron, and other riches in abundance, 

 whither King Toua once made a voyage, and 

 from whence he brought three cannon-balls, (two- 

 pounders.) 



As soon as we landed at Guahon, we recognized 

 the Waghal in this island, and the Luis of that 

 song came friendly to meet us in the person of Don 

 Luis de Torres, from whom we copy the follow^ing 

 account, while we recollect him with sincere love 

 and gratitude. 



Luito *, a mariner of the islands to the south of 

 Guahon, whose name is still cherished among his 

 countrymen, found again, in the year 1788, in two 

 boats, the way to Waghal or Guahon, of which 

 a song appears to have preserved the remembrance 

 from ancient times. Encouraged by the success 

 of his first voyage, and the kind reception he met 

 with, he came again, in the year 1789, with four 

 boats, requesting the Governor to allow him to 

 come there annually. The four navigators, when 

 they had prepared themselves for their return, dis- 

 agreed about the rout they should steer ; they se- 



* Compare Espinosa and Krusenstera's Contributions to 

 Hydrography, page 92. 



