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the beach. The narrow reef flats of the eastern faces of these islands are 

 all edged by a belt of small boulders. The eastern spits of the islands to 

 the south of Wandu nearly all indicate a certain amount of wasting away. 



Anguretin and the adjoining islands of the northern extremity of the 

 east face of North Malosmadulu are noted for their fine vegetation. Like 

 the southern islands of the east face, they are on the whole steep to, espe- 

 cially on the sea face, with comparatively small reef flats. The islands 

 are surrounded by steep, coarse shingle beaches on the sea face, passing 

 into fine coral sand beaches towards the west. Both the shingle and sand 

 are driven far in between the base of the large trees across the outer belt 

 of bushes and low trees. All the islands of the east face appear slightly 

 dished from the heights to which the outer summits of the beaches rise 

 above the enclosed interior area of the island. 



The deepest sounding in North Malosmadulu is thirty-one fathoms. 

 The average of the soundings in the group to the north of the " wilder- 

 ness," as well as to the south and west, is between twenty-four and thirty 

 fathoms. In Middle Malosmadulu the depths vary between seventeen and 

 twenty-four fiithoms. In Southern Malosmadulu the greatest depth indi- 

 cated on the chart is thirty-five fathoms. The interior of this group is 

 somewhat deeper than either North or Middle Malosmadulu, a great many 

 soundings indicating a depth greater than thirty fathoms. 



Off the northern extremity of North Malosmadulu, separated by a 

 channel of three miles in width, are Powell's Islands, Etingili and Alifuri, 

 at the two extremities of a narrow isolated bank about three miles in 

 length. We did not visit them. They stand to North Malosmadulu in much 

 the same relation as do other atolls or lagoon reefs and islands such as 

 Wataru Reef, Rasdu and Toddu Atolls, to Ari and Mulaku. 



Makunudu. 



Plates 1,S; 8 a, fig. 7 ; 31, fig. 2 : 32 ; 33, fig. 1. 



We examined the northeastern part of Makunudu (PI. 2), an atoll about 

 nine miles west of Miladummadulu. It is about fifteen miles long, run- 

 ning nearly north and south, and quite narrow, — not more than three 



