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FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



Mr. H. Foden, R.N., Acting Paymaster of H.M.S. "Penguin, 

 for the following air current on Funafuti :* 



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The narrow bounds of habitable land has restricted the intro- 

 duction of domestic animals. Pigs are owned by every family, 



*But few of the native chants of Polynesia appear to have been 

 reduced to writing. A Tongan tune is given by Mariner Tonga, 1817, 

 ii., p. 338 ; Samoan by Wilkes loc. cit., ii., pp. 152-3 ; and Melanesian 

 by Guppy loc. cit., p. 140. 



