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WuU (K.), Poulo and Pulo, after the reports 

 of the missions, according to which it lies S. i S.W. 

 of Sonsorol. Compare Carteret's Current island. 



Merir (K.), Merieres, after the reports of the 

 missions, and, according to them, S. I S. E. of 

 Sonsorol. Compare Warren Hastings' island. 



The names of the two latter islands, Pulo Maria 

 and Pulo Ana, are noted on the chart to Fr. Juan 

 de la Concepcion, t. ix. p. 150. Pulo Anna and 

 Pulo Mariere, on other charts, are corrupt com- 

 pounds of different languages. The Malayan word 

 Pulo, for island, is well known to the Europeans in, 

 the Malayan archipelago. 



All these islands to the S.W. of the Palaos, are 

 low islands, or groups of islands, whose peaceable 

 and inoffensive inhabitants speak the language 

 of Ulea. The events at Sonsorol, where islanders 

 from Ulea and Lamureck served as interpreters to 

 the Spaniards, confirm Kadu's statement. 



According to Kadu, the trading-boats go from 

 Ulea to these islands, namely, as far as Merir, by 

 way of the chain of the northern islands, as we have 

 followed them from Ulea ; but they return from 

 Merir to Ulea by another way, viz. by 



Sorol, or Sonrol (K.), (not the Sonrol of St. 

 Andrew's islands), Zaraol (Cantova), according to 

 whom it is under the dominion of Mogemug, and 

 is fifteen leagues distant. It is marked on his 

 chart, but the name is omitted. 



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