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These salts yielded upon analysis the following results: 
Chlorine : ‘ : : ° : , 3577 
Sodium : : : : ; . : 1-665 or Soda—2-238 
Magnesia : : : : : . j 0-440 
Lime é 5 : ‘ ° ° : 0°366 
Silica and iron, with a trace of phosphate of lime : 0:200 
Carbonic acid . ; . : ° ° 0:493 
6-741 
Organic matter and loss ° . : . ° 459 
7200 | 
Early in the morning, the launch and first cutter came in. From 
the officer’s report, I found that he had surveyed (since I left him on 
the 4th of June on Passage Island) the reef between it and Vanua-levu, 
and part of the distance down to Mbua or Sandalwood Bay. There 
he had remained waiting for ten or twelve days, until Captain Hud- 
son sent him a fresh supply of provisions, and additional orders 
to proceed along the south side of Vanua-levu, which he was 
doing when he joined me. In extenuation of his delay at San- 
dalwood Bay, he pleaded the literal construction of his orders; 
they will be found in Appendix VIII. On such a duty, a com- 
manding officer frequently labours under a serious disadvantage, 
from giving officers credit for a zealous disposition to perform their 
duties, and is oftentimes less explicit in writing the orders than 
it behooves him to be; trusting to the zeal of those who are to ex- 
ecute them, in whom he feels every confidence, both as to capacity 
and willingness. 
On the 3d of July, we were engaged in surveying the upper portion 
of the bay, and in making astronomical observations which were all 
completed by night. 
Towards evening the tender came in and anchored, having suc- 
ceeded in accomplishing the survey of both the island of Goro and the 
Horseshoe Reef. The former is considered by the natives one of the 
most fruitful islands of the group; it is a high island, though not so 
much broken as the others, and, from appearance, would be suscepti- 
ble of cultivation to its very top. It is ygali to Ambau, by which it is 
constantly looked to for supplies. It is surrounded by a reef, which is, 
for the most part, a shore-reef, and affords no harbour ; there is, how- 
ever, anchorage on the northwest side. The island is nine and a half 
miles long, by four miles wide. The produce of Goro is oil and tor- 
