APPENDIX. 
I—REPORT OF ADMIRAL WASHINGTON, R.N. 
In accordance with the Board Minute, to report upon the 
Colonial Office letter of the 9th instant, I have to state that — 
The Fiji, or more properly the Viti group, in the south-western 
Pacific, consists of some 200 islands, islets, and rocks, lying be- 
tween latitude 154° and 193° south, at about 1900 miles, N.E. 
of Sydney, and 1200 north of Auckland, at the north end of 
New Zealand. The two largest islands may be some 300 miles in 
circumference, or each is about the size of Corsica ; 65 of the islets 
are said to be inhabited, and the whole population of the group 
may be 200,000. 
I propose to reply categorically to the queries contained in 
the Colonial Office letter :— 
Q. 1. If the Fiji Isles be obtained, are all the available har- 
bours obtained in that part of the Pacific? 
A, 1. Certainly not all, but a great part of them. The 
Friendly or Tonga Islands, only 400 miles to the south-east, 
possesses good harbours, as Tonga-tabi and Vavau. The Samoa 
or Navigator Isles, the same distance to the north-east, have 
good harbours, as Sangopango and Apia. Some of the Society 
Islands also may be available, but lying 1800 miles to the east- 
ward, they may not be considered as within the limits named : 
none of the harbours, however, are superior to those of the Fiji 
Islands, 
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