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irresolution, a fluctuation between violent opposition to 

 our landing in the first instance, and after this act had 

 been consummated, an equal disposition to friendship, 

 clouded by the fear of displeasure from some unseen source. 



In all our enquiries, here, as well as at Quelpart, the 

 terms applied to the land were, invariably, T-cho-san 

 or 0-tcheou-san, and this was confirmed by enquiry, 

 made through the interpreter. As the harbour of Tcho- 

 san, so named by Broughton, should be somewhere in 

 the neighbourhood examined by us, it is highly probable 

 that he was misled, in a similar manner, by their reply to 

 his enquiry for the name of the land* In the same manner 

 it is very probable that Tanna, in the New Hebrides, ob- 

 tained its name, as the natives did not recognize that 

 name at the period of our visit in the ' Sulphur ', in 1840. 

 Tanah is the Malay name for land, and it is probable 

 that the Malays, which traversed ah 1 the coasts of New 

 Guinea, as well as the off-lying islands, extended their 

 excursions even to the Feejees, many of their words 

 evincing a great affinity to that language. 



Our boats had penetrated within estuaries which 

 would easily have accommodated the 'Samarang', as 

 high as 34 40' N., and at their extreme points the 

 channels appeared still open as far as the eye could reach, 

 without the slightest traces of civilization, beyond the 

 few fishermen at the beach ; our provisions had now, 

 however, become so far reduced as to render departure 

 necessary, and we, therefore, shaped our course for Quel- 

 part, where we had yet to obtain final observations. 



* Tsyo-syon arid Tyo-oo-seyn are the Japanese names for Korea, 

 which favours this observation. 



