ER GE CET HQy, 9 FD, 
LETTER XVII. 
LEAVE ANEITYUM FOR NEW CALEDONIA IN THE ‘SEA WITCH” 
— APPEARANCE OF THE SHORES OF THAT ISLAND—A 
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF ITS CHARACTERISTICS — LIFE AT 
NOUMEA—LEAVE FOR SYDNEY. 
4 Sydney, 
March, 1873. 
from 
@SROM the heading of this letter you will see that I have got 
back to the white man’s world. The last letter was from Aneit™ 
yum ; and I shall now fill up the gap by telling you what happened 
to us on our way from the islands to the colonies. 
’ We were detained more than five weeks on Aneityum, be- 
fore any vessel came to our assistance; but we thought our- 
selves fortunate in getting away as soon as we did. Few 
vessels are to be seen amongst the islands during the hurricane 
months ; and we-imagined that if any vessels had been in the 
vicinity of the group, they must have met the same fate as the 
“Dayspring.” Nor were we far wrong in our conjectures, for 
several other ships were wrecked in that hurricane,‘and the 
vessel which appeared to help us— though it had been lying in 
one of the best-protected harbours. which the group affords, 
viz., Fili Harbour, Efaté—narrowly escaped being driven on 
shore. 
I had gone round to Anamé to spend some of the time with 
