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Miladummadulii, the vegetation is again quite flourishing; some large forest 

 trees occur on the western face. Huludu is also steep to and flanked 

 by steep coral sand beaches. Similarly Lofara and Watu, small islands to 

 the south of which we passed, have steep coral sand beaches, are steep to, 

 and covered with scanty vegetation. 



All the islands of the southern part of Miladummadulu, with their higli 

 and steep coral sand beaches, enclosing an inner area somewhat lower than the 

 summit of the beaches, give one the impression of being slightly dished. 



Mavila, on the west face of Miladummadulu, is a triangular island with a 

 reef flat on the northwestern face. It is steep to, surrounded with steep 

 coral sand beaches, and fairly well wooded ; some of the trees on the eastern 

 point are of considerable size. About six miles to the north on the west 

 face of Miladummadulu, and separated from it by a circular faro of fully two 

 miles in diameter, with a lagoon of a greatest depth of eight fathoms, rises 

 Digu Faro, an elliptical faro pointed to the south. The small islet with 

 its clump of trees indicated on the chart as existing on the southern spit of 

 the faro has disappeared ; nothing can be seen but a diminutive sand bank 

 on which a few terns were collected. 



Deha Faro consists of two small islands on opposite faces of an irregular 

 elliptical reef flat covered with low bushes ; they are bounded by coral sand 

 beaches ; the eastern island is wasting away ; the outer belt of bushes runs 

 close to the water's edge. 



Maddedu (PI. 36, fig. 1), in the very centre of the southern part of the 

 group, is a triangular faro with a reef flat occupying the eastern part and 

 an island at its eastern spit ; while the western half is a small lagoon, 

 bounded by a sunken narrow rim flat, having a greatest depth of eight 

 fathoms. The island is covered with low vegetation, much of it in a dying 

 condition ; the eastern face is wasting ; the outer edge of the reef flat is 

 bordered by a belt of boulders ; a beach of coarse coral shingle flanks the 

 east face. 



To the southeastward of our track we passed by Tolandu, a small 

 steep-to island on the east face of the group, with a scanty outer belt of 

 low bushes surrounding the cocoanuts of the interior of the island. The 

 western face is a long steep coral sand beach ; the base of the coarse 



