136 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



A small low group of two islands to the south, 

 and no great distance from Mogemug. 



Compare Philip's islands of Captain Hunter, 

 1791, and the two islands, in 1791, which we have 

 already mentioned, with more probability, at Eurii- 

 pugk. 



Sorol, according to Kadu's statement, appears to 

 have been peopled from Mogemug, and to have 

 been under its jurisdiction. It is now wholly de- 

 populated. These traditions also mention — 



Liigiilot, a low group of islands j a boat from 

 which, bound to 



Umaluguoth, a remote desert island, for the 

 purpose of catching turtle, was driven upon Sorol. 

 The strangers were guilty of robbery. The quarrel 

 which ensued led to bloodshed. The chief of 

 Sorol, and seven men and five women, on his side, 

 were killed j on the side of the strangers, about 

 four men. Subsequently, some of the inhabitants 

 of Sorol went to sea, but never returned. At last 

 only one man and some women remained on this 

 group. We can offer a conjecture on the situation 

 of these islands. 



Don Luis de Torres has enabled us to look for 

 the discoveries made by Wilson, on board the 

 Duff, in 1797* among the Carolinas j and we are 

 inclined to recognize Ulea in his populous and rich 

 group of thirteen islands, though the number of 

 the islands, among which he only counts six large 



