CORRECT CHART. 36l 



on the right northward, and one on the left southward. 

 From the bearings, however, and from our run on 

 the following morning we found it necessary to cor- 

 rect the chart, thus decreasing the number of 

 islands. We found that marked 5, to have no 

 existence, and 6, far too much to the westward, 

 while 8 and 10 were placed to the eastward of their 

 true position. These errors occasionally occur 

 where they are numerous, much alike, and are 

 passed quickly. The change in the number and 

 position of the islands is in some measure hostile 

 to the views of Captain King, and I am further in- 

 clined, from these corrections, to draw the conclu- 

 sion that No. 4 of the group is Bbyd^n island, a name 

 given by the Murray islanders, to the spot rendered 

 notorious by the cold-blooded massacre we have 

 already alluded to, and which will be described 

 more in detail in Captain Stanley's highly interest- 

 ing narrative, further on in the present work. 



On examining the reef fronting the island, which 

 is a more perfect specimen of a lagoon than any 

 we had yet seen, we found that the outer edge con- 

 sisted of a wall higher than any of the parts within, 

 rising at low water, to an elevation of ten feet, while 

 inside, pools or holes existed, three or four feet 

 deep, containing live coral, sponges, sea eggs, and 

 trepang. Scattered about on different parts of 

 the reef were many chama gigas, not, however, so 

 large as those I had formerly seen at Keeling or 

 Cocos Islands, in the Indian Ocean, weighing 220 

 pounds. 



