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December, 1814, in T 20' north latitude, 151° 55' 

 east longitude. Tliere is a very high mountain on it. 



We had heard Kadu sing a song of Feis, which 

 related to a ship, with which the islanders had 

 traded in sight of their island, though she did not 

 stop there. It celebrated the names of Jose Maria, 

 and Salvador. We learned at Guahon, that in the 

 year 1808 or 1809, the Modesto of Manilla, Cap- 

 tain Jose Maria Fernandez, which looked for the 

 Pelew islands, to collect trepang, had missed them, 

 and come in sight of Feis. When the Modesto 

 afterwards reached the Pelew islands, she met there 

 one of the natives of Feis, wdth whom she had 

 traded while at sea ; to continue the commerce he 

 had hastened on before the ship. Don Jose de 

 Medinilla y Pinedo, governor of the Mariana 

 islands, was on board the Modesto. We tried, at 

 Manilla, but in vain, to obtain further particulars 

 respecting this voyage. 



We relate here an event, after our friend Kadu, 

 which may excite some interest. Six white men, 

 who wore clothes, once landed at Eap, in a small 

 boat fastened together with wooden pegs, with- 

 out any iron. This boat was, in other respects, 

 made entirely in the European manner. The 

 strangers were hospitably received. One of them, 

 named Boele, was adopted as a son, by Laman, 

 the chief of the territory of Kattepar. Boele 

 remained on the island, when the five others, after 

 a stay of a few months, went again to sea. Kadu, 



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