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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF 
On the 5th, they made the Pescadores, which was surveyed. Its 
position is in latitude 11° 23' 15" N., longitude 167° 36' 30" E. The 
Pescadores is of triangular shape and coral formation; it has on its 
reef several islets and some sand-spits: the former are covered with a 
few low bushes, but it has no cocoa-nuts or pandanus-trees, and affords 
nothing but the pearl-oyster and turtles, in the season. The whole 
island is about thirty-two miles in circumference. Its greatest length, 
north and south, is ten miles, and the same between its east and west 
point. There are two entrances in the lagoon: one about the middle 
of the north side, the other on the east side. The island has no in¬ 
habitants, and is incapable of supporting any. From the description 
in Mr. Dowsett’s journal, there is no doubt that this was the place 
where he and the boat’s crew were either treacherously murdered, or 
made captives, and carried to another island; and from the nature of 
the island, little doubt exists that the murderers were a transient fishing 
party, from some of the adjacent islands. All the facts that are known 
have been given previously. 
Korsakoff was in sight for two days; but they were prevented from 
having communication with it by the boisterous state of the weather. 
On the afternoon of the 7th, an endeavour was made by a canoe to 
reach the ship, but without success: the sea was too rough for the 
boats to live, and the surf too great to permit a landing. Although a 
few persons were seen upon it, yet nothing showed that it was per¬ 
manently inhabited. The appearance of Korsakoff was the same as 
that of the Pescadores, without any vegetable productions capable of 
sustaining life. 
Korsakoff, though represented as one island on the charts, was found 
to be two. The smaller one lies to the southward of the larger, and is 
fourteen miles long by three wide. The larger island is about twenty- 
six miles long, trending northeast and southwest. It has an entrance 
into its lagoon on the south side. 
Captain Hudson now came to the conclusion that his time would 
not permit him to proceed any further to the westward; indeed, the 
time appointed in his instructions to be at the Columbia river had 
already passed, and he was now distant from it upwards of four 
thousand miles, and would require some sixty or seventy days, in all 
probability, to reach the Northwest Coast. 
This caused the abandonment of his visit to Strong’s and Ascension 
Islands, two points I was in hopes would have been reached, not only 
for the information to be derived from a visit, but I was desirous of 
having a full knowledge of those islands. I also wished to break up 
what was deemed a nest of rogues, and to be the means of recovering 
