4.5'2 Ireland's account of 



the way they came, to an island they called Sir-reb,* 

 situated near Aureed, where their voyage ended, and they 

 remained until purchased by Duppar, the Murray Islander ; 

 who, it appears, upon hearing that there were two white 

 boys in captivity, at Aureed, embarked in a canoe with his 

 wife Pamoy, and went for the express purpose of obtaining 

 them, taking for the purpose of barter some fruit. 'Ihe 

 price of their ransom was a branch of bananas, for each. 

 Ihey returned by way of Darnleys Island, where they 

 stopped a few days, and then reached Murray's Island, where 

 they remained ever since, and were most kindly treated. 

 Duppar gave little D'Oyly to a native named Oby to take 

 care of; a charge of which he faithfully acquitted himself, 

 and both Oby and his adopted child soon became very 

 fond of each other; for as the child was a mere infant, he 

 soon forgot his mother, and naturally attached himself to 

 his nurse. When at Aureed the Indians had named 

 Ireland, Wak ; and little D'Oyly, they called Uass ; names 

 which they retained at Murray's Island, and by which they 

 are doubtless now known all over the archipelago. 



" Ireland lived in the same hut with Duppar and his 

 family ; his employment was to cultivate a plantation of 

 yams, and during the season to assist in taking turtle and 

 shell-fish. On one occasion he accompanied them on an 

 excursion tow'ards New Guinea, where they went for the 

 purpose of barter and trade ; which they frequently did, to 

 obtain bows and arrows, canoes and feathers^ for which they 

 give in return shells ;t and which from their scarcity, the 



* Sir-reb, according to Ireland's information is Marsden 

 Island.— P. P. K. 



t Ireland describes the shell to be a cone, and recognized it 

 among the plates in the Encyclopedic Methodiquc, as the Coiius- 

 milie jnDiclatus. 



