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overlooking the first bay (Port Glasgow) stood the villages of 

 Banoro, Geagea., and Gima^ the last-mentioned being the only 

 one that has not migrated, while Banoro and Geagea now 

 stand on the shores of Port Glasgow. In the next bay 

 (Milport Harbour) are the villages of Tsaviriho and Pediri, 

 which removed to the shore relatively recently. In the next 

 bay — a broad and shallow one — the villages of Boreho, Dagoho, 

 and Unevi are situated; further west comes Derehai itself, 

 occupying the whole shore of a small bay. The 2\seJdi, 

 Woi/'iforo, and K are re villages lie Amazon Bay. The first 

 tw^o came down from the hills, and the last-mentioned is a 

 fairly recent Mailu colony, which came over in the first years 

 after the establishment of the white man's rule and security 

 in the district. 



In Amazon Bay, or, rather, opposite it, lie, as said above, 

 the two flat coral islands (Laruoro and Loupom ) and the rocky 

 island of Mailu (Toulon Island). Each of them harbours a 

 village. Mailu is, as has been stated, the most important and 

 largest village in the district. Besides Kurere, it has sent out 

 the colony of Oraido or Boru. It was the leading trading 

 centre on the whole southern coast from B uhVu to Su(i'u, and 

 it was also the village most dreaded by the mainland com- 

 munities, with the majority of which it was constantly at war. 



Going westward from Mogiibo Point (the western end of 

 Amazon Bay) we come upon the village community of 

 Magori, who now live on the plain up the Baireho River, some 

 five miles from the beach. This community, w^hich came down 

 from the hills only a couple of years ago, forms a non-Mailu 

 speaking village. There is another non-Mailu village, Deha, 

 now on the seashore, w^hich recently came from the hinterland. 



Beyond these we meet with the villages of Daldva, 

 Alagaiiho, and Jioni or Oraido. The first-named is a colony 

 from one of the Amazon Bay island villages, Laruoro. Oraido 

 is a Mailu colony, and Magaiiho seems also to be one, dating 

 from an earlier period. All these villages are said to speak 

 exactly the same dialect as the Mailu proper. In Cloudy Bay 

 there are a few villages, not far from the shore, which speak 

 non-Mailu languages, but I was not able to ascertain their 

 names. Between Cloudy Bay and Aha u there are the villages 

 of Durom, Domdra, and Domu, all of which speak Mailu, and 

 it is said, even tlie same dialectic variety as the Mailu 

 villages. These latter are also in very frequent communication 

 with those villages of the extreme west, w^here they used to, 

 and still, call on their westward expeditions (comp. chap, iv., 

 •sec. 4). I have not, however, been in this part of the district. 

 Beyond these settlements begins the next ethnographic district, 

 that of the Aronut natives. 



