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name was at tliat time Laelidjii, he having since 

 received his present name by an amicable change 

 with a chief of the island chain of Ralick, who is 

 now called Laelidjii, after him.) The natives pro- 

 cured, in exchange, iron and pieces of broken glass 

 from this ship.* Kadu possessed himself of two of 

 these pieces when he was at Aur, and recollected 

 them on seeing some similar pieces among us, which 

 he collected for his friends. No song has preserved 

 the name of this ship ; no names are snatched 

 from oblivion. 



We are the first Europeans who have landed at 

 Radack and become acquainted with these amiable 

 people. From principle and from inclination, from 

 real sincere love, we endeavoured to neglect 

 nothing that we could do for this people. On our 

 first visit we put our friends in Otdia in possession 

 of hogs, goats, and tame fowls : yams were planted, 

 and melons and water-melons had sprung up, and 

 throve well. On our return, after a few months, 

 we found the place of the garden in the island of 

 Otdia waste and desolate ; not even a foreign 

 weed remained to testify our good intention. The 

 hoffs had died of thirst, the fowls were not to be 

 found ; Prince Lamary had carried the goats to 

 Aur, and had also transplanted there, from the 

 May-he,— the benefactor of an amiable people, 



* Wood may be scraped with pieces of glass ; and they use 

 them ahuost as we do the plane. They have a real value. 



