COMPULSORY MIGRATIONS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 527 



DISTRICT III. 



The farther we go from the masses of land forming the continents 

 lying eastward and approach the third district, where vessels are driven 

 from their course, the shorter becomes the series of instances recorded 

 by history of compulsory voyages wLich are to give us a clearer com- 

 prehension of the intermingling of the Polynesians; yet even here they 

 are not wholly lacking, and present almost the greatest wealth in regard 

 to the line of direction. 



The province now to be considered is united with the former one by 

 three long accidental voyages. The boat of the Englishman Williams 

 was once driven from Barotonga to Tongatabu, that is, a distance of 

 more than 1,500 kilometers, and on his last voyage he himself conveyed 

 to their home several natives of Aitutaki who had been carried by the 

 wind to Probys Island (Nine Island), which lies 1,500 kilometers west- 

 ward of Cooks or Herveys Island. 1 The third connecting route pre- 

 sents itself in 10 degrees south, and extends far beyond the eastern 

 limit of the second district. In the year 1861, inhabitants of Manihiki 

 or Humphrey (T0° S., 161° V W.) were swept away by a storm and 

 reached Nukulailai ; one of them, Elkana, on this occasion gave there 

 and in Funafuti (the Ellice group) the first Christian instruction. 2 An 

 inhabitant of the austral island Eurutu was once transported to this 

 same island, Manihiki; his wanderings lasted six weeks. 3 And in the 

 year 1820 a canoe, also from Eurutu, arrived at Uliatea, in Maurua, 

 having accomplished this voyage of 900 kilometers in from two to three 

 weeks. 4 From this region of Maurua we have to note two cases which 

 extend to the Hervey group. In 1821, a boat which belonged to Mr. 

 Williams left Eaiatea (Uliatea) with a westerly wind to sail to Tahiti, 

 but the wind changed, and the boat, several months later, was found 

 1,400 kilometers toward the southwest. Another time Williams's own 

 boat was driven from Tahiti to Atui. Shipwrecked voyagers were 

 found by Cook on the same island. During his second voyage he took 

 with him to England Omai, a native of Eaiatea, who accompanied him 

 on his third voyage. When they reached Atni, Omai found three of his 

 countrymen who had been driven ashore there when they were sail- 

 ing homeward from Tahiti. Besides Omai's acquaintances there were 

 seventeen others in this party. 5 Captain Bligh found on Maatea a boy 

 and a woman, the sole survivors of an unfortunate band who had been 

 carried there some time before his arrival from Tubuai. <; Ellis reports 



1 John Williams: A Narrative, etc., page 132. 

 2 Zeitschr. d. Ges. f. Erdk., Berlin, 1868, page 131. 

 3 Williams, page 469. 



4 Ellis: Polynesian Researches, I, page 125. Hartwich: Die Inseln des Grossen 

 Ozean, page 334. 

 fi Cook: Third Voyage, I, page 252. Omai: Reports, I, page 109 and many others. 

 6 Bligh : Voyage in the Pacific, I, page 125. 



