THE CAROLINE ISLANDS. 187 



No domestic animals are to be found on the 

 islands of the first province of the Great Ocean, 

 except those which are brought by Europeans, 

 We leave it to Wilson to speak of the Pelew islands. 

 According to Kadu, a very considerable time ago, 

 a large ship had come to Mogemug, which had 

 left some cats there. The species of this animal 

 has extended from Mogemug to the west as far as 

 Pelli, and to Ulea in the east. They are called in 

 these islands by the Spanish name Gato. The 

 people of Eap and Ulea, and Kadu himselfj 

 learnt, from a very old man at Mogemug, to count 

 from one to ten in the language of these strangers. 

 JSo far, in fact, he counts in the Spanish language 

 with fluency, and correct pronunciation. He has 

 likewise seen, at Mogemug, two large earthen ves- 

 sels, (three or four feet high), which were left 

 there by that ship. We have traced no other 

 memorial of the mission of Cantova to Mon-emusr. 

 Kadu heard nothing of the cannon left at the 

 island of Falalep.* 



The Trichechus dugong is found in the waters 

 of the Pelew islands, as in those of the Philippine 

 islands. 



Cantova mentions the chase of the whale by the 

 inhabitants of the low islands. Perhaps what he re- 

 lates might be understood of the dolphin fishery. 



* Caschattel, lord of Mogemug at the time of the letters of 

 Cantova, was known by name to Kadu, ab a long deceased chief 

 of this group. 



