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merely a remnant of the open area, now nearly filled up, once existing 

 between the high beaches thrown up on all sides of the original reef plat- 

 form. Other islands, like Nurakita^ and Nanomana," are merely small coral 

 reef flats on the summits of which reef material has been heaped up, while 

 in the case of Niutao the central space has been left partially undisturbed. 

 Unable to land, owing to bad weather, we continued our way to Arorai. 



1 A. Chart 766. ^ Ibid. 



