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west, and which is nothing but an upraised crater in the older crater of Blanche 

 Harbour. But the village having been half destroyed by a volcanic eruption, the 

 centre of the administration was again shifted, this time to the islet of Keraicara, 

 which is situated south-west of Mioko, and which has the advantage of a roadstead 

 accessible to the largest vessels. Not more than a thousand tons of copra are 

 annually exported from this place. 



Fig. 140.— Neu-Lauenburg (Toek) Island. 

 Scale 1 : 170,000. 



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Reefs exposed at 

 low water. 



Depths. 



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Fathoms. 



25 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



3i Miles. 



The officials of the trading company which represents the German power in 

 these waters have hitherto been mainly occupied in superintending the emigration, 

 or rather the transportation, of the natives carried off to work on the plantations of 

 the whites. The slave markets have certainly been replaced by markets of " free 

 labour ; " but the difference between the operations of all these labour vessels is 



