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mained three and the second five years. So slight, however, is the 

 intercourse between the two portions of the group, that they had 

 remained all the time in ignorance of each other's existence. The 

 information thus obtained from three distinct sources, and subjected 

 to careful comparison and scrutiny, is evidently as likely to be 

 correct, as any that has been given concerning a barbarous people. 



The islands which constitute the group, are, according to the 

 native account, seventeen in number, extending from the second 

 degree of south latitude to the fourth of north, and from 173 20' to 

 178 of east longitude. Their names, beginning from the north, are 

 as follows : 



NATIVE NAME. ENGLISH NAME. POSITION. 



Tarawa ni Mdkin, . . (Undiscovered), .... North-northeast of Makin. 



Makin, ) 



Taritdri ' ' ' ' Islands, 3 10' N., 172 40' E. 



Mdraki, Matthews' Island, ... 2 N., 173 45' E. 



Apia, Charlotte Island, . . . . 1 40' N., 173 E. 



Tarawa, Knox's Island, .... 1 30' N., 173 E. 



Maiana, Hall's Island, 1 N., 173 E. 



Apamdma, .... Hopper's Island, . . . . 25' N., 174 E. 



Kuria, Woodle's Island, .... 15' N., 173 20' E. 



Nonouki Henderville's Island, . . 10' N., 173 35' E. 



Nonouti, Sydenham's Island, ... 35' S., 174 25' E. 



Taputeduea, .... Drummond's Island, . . 1 20' S., 174 45' E. 



Nukunau, Byron's Island, (?)... 1 20' S., 177 40' E. 



Peru, Eliza Island, (?) . . . . 2 S., 176 E. 



Temana, ) 



f. , . f . . . ( bouth and east of Drum- 



Onouto, > . . . . (Uncertain), . . . 



77 i I mond s Island. 



Arurai, } 



The first-named island is on no chart, and has probably never been 

 visited. Our information concerning it is derived from the natives of 

 Makin, who described it as lying about two days' sail (for their 

 canoes) to the northeast, and as inhabited by people like themselves, 

 with whom they had frequent communication. The last five were 

 not visited by our squadron, and their names are given according to 

 Kirby's account. Nukunau, he thought, was Byron's Island, and 

 Peru, Eliza or Kurd's Island. As to the rest, he only knew that 

 they were in the southern part of the group, though he had an idea 

 that Arurai was sometimes called by foreigners Hope Island. The 

 charts, at this point, are confused, and none of them have so many 



