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Bogha is the name of an inconsiderable, low 

 group of islands, with which the lladackers be- 

 came acquainted by the following circumstance. 

 A woman of Bogha was washed away by the tide, 

 as she was drawing a load of cocoa along the reef 

 from one island of this group to another. Her 

 cocoa served her for a raft, and bore her up ; she 

 was driven by the wind and current past Bygar, 

 and, on the fifth day, was thrown upon Udirick. 

 This woman is still living in the island of Tabual, 

 of the group of Aur. Bogha, in its remote situ- 

 ation, appears to us to be the seat of a forgotten 

 colony from Radack, the language of which is 

 spoken there. 



The islands seen by Captain Johnstone in the 

 frigate Cornwallis, in the year I8O7, in the north- 

 east of Radack, and for which we looked, (the 

 same, according to Krusenstern's Contributions to 

 Hydrography, p. 114, No. 24, p. 19, as seen by Fer- 

 dinand Quintana, in the ship Maria, 1796, and the 

 Nassau fleet in 1625, as also the Gaspar-rico of the 

 ancient charts,) form a low sickle-shaped group of 

 inconsiderable circumference, the convex side of 

 which is turned to the leeward. Only on the 

 windward side mould has collected on the reef. It 

 rises mostly naked out of the waves under the lee, 

 and at its entrance sinks into the inner sea. The 

 islands form a very close row ; the vegetation ap- 

 pears to be poor ; and the cocoa-tree is nowhere 

 seen to rise above the rest. 



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