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some of tlie jDaths about Dillon's Baj", but there are no 

 roads. A little wood lias been purchased from time to 

 time, but the greater portion is cut and carried off by force. 

 The last load of sandal-wood was shipped from this ill- 

 fated island, in the ' Amateur,' Captain Long, for Hongkong, 

 August 29, 1865. 



The trade in women is extremely singular. The price of 

 a damsel is two guns, say £b. A woman, at present under 

 Christian insti'uction, was bought some years ago by a 

 person engaged in the trade, and again sold by him to 

 the present owner. One Jonas — the Missionary says — a 

 native of Manilla, bought three girls, and has also recently 

 left the island, carrying off two women. Another Malay, 

 named Joe, who shot a native of Sifu at Dillon's Bay, in 

 June 1865, has likewise gone, and dragged off his slave, a 

 fine little girl, to New Caledonia, in spite of her tears, 

 entreaties, and her father's wishes. Another young girl, 

 about twelve years of age, is at present the property of a 

 native of Tongatabu, named Moses, and her fate is not 

 doubtful ; both are at present at Dillon's Bay. Not one 

 half is known of the oppression and violence of the pro- 

 ceedings in a trade noted for a quarter of a century for its 

 enormities. 



During the closing months of 1864, and the first of 1865, 

 there was a European family of seven- or eight persons all 

 told, and seven or eight white men, besides those on board 

 vessels, living on the island. 



Indigenous to the island are the cocoa-nut tree, the bread- 



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