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shallow to allow our vessel to enter, but near enough to get an excellent 
idea of its characteristic structure. We next touched at Kambara, an- 
chored in the crater of Totoya, made for Moala, and thence for Solo 
Lighthouse, examined the North Astrolabe Reef, steamed through the 
Great Astrolabe Reef, coming out west of Ono, examined a part of the 
northern shore of Kandavu, and then made for Vatu Leile, returning to 
Suva. On our second trip we visited Ngau, Nairai, the Horseshoe Reef, 
Mbatiki, and, entering the Moturiki Channel south of Ovalau, examined 
the inner side of the barrier reef as far as Mbau, and explored the bar- 
rier reef from Moturiki to Suva. During our third trip we steamed 
along the southern coast of Viti Levu, going as far west as Nandronga. 
Skirting the reef as closely as was prudent, we were able to follow the 
changes of the great barrier reef of Viti Levu west of Suva as it grad- 
ually passes into a fringing reef and disappears off the Singatoka River, 
to reappear again, first as a fringing reef, next as a barrier reef extending 
beyond the Nandi waters to the west of Nandronga. We then paid 
a second visit to Vatu Leile, which we had not been able to examine 
properly owing to bad weather, and returned to Suva, having steamed 
a little over thirteen hundred miles.? 
While we were exploring the reefs in the vicinity of Suva, the 
“ Yaralla’? made two trips in charge of Captain Thomson, one to the 
Nandi waters entering through the Navula Passage, extending as far 
north as the Waia Islands.to the south of the Yasawa group; the other 
passing close to Vatu Vara, Yathata, and Naitamba, on the way to Wai- 
Jangilala in order to bring back the crew left there to carry on the boring. 
THE PELAGIC FAUNA OF FIJI. 
I brought with me deep-sea tow-nets of the various patterns used by 
the Prince of Monaco, by Dr. Giesbrecht of the Naples Zodélogical 
Station, and by Hensen on the “ National” Expedition, in order to com- 
pare their efficiency with the Tanner deep-sea self-closing net in use on 
the ‘ Albatross,” and which I have adopted on my various expeditions. 
Unfortunately, our time in Fiji was so limited and the conditions for 
towing at great depths are such, among so many intercepting islands, 
that the results likely to be obtained seemed to make it unadvisable to 
1 The Islands and Coral Reefs of the Fiji Group, by Alexander Agassiz, Am. 
Journ. Sci., Vol. V., February, 1898. 
