166 SIDNEY H. RAY. 
39. Lai* or Uvéa—Communicated by Rev. 8. Ella, Sydney. 
40. Maré—Communicated by Rev. S. M. Creagh, Sydney. 
*[The native name of this island is Iai (not Tai as on page 109). The 
following account of the manner in which brown Polynesians came to 
settle on this island is worth preserving ; itis communicated by the Rev. 
S. Ella :—On the island of Uvéa (properly Iai), in the Loyalty group, 
some castaways, both from Tonga and Wallis’ Island, have long been 
settled; one party, Uvéans (Wallis Is.), occupying the northern end of 
the island, to which they gave the name of Uvéa, and the other on the 
southern extremity, which they call Tonga. The original inhabitants 
(Iaians) occupy the central portion. The correct name of the island is 
Iai, but navigators, from first having had intercourse with the immi- 
grants at the northern end, have misnamed the island from the intro- 
duced name of that district. The description given by some of the natives 
of the Union Group ina measure accounts for the manner in which these 
waifs get driven away to distant islands. They were accustomed to move 
from island to island, long distances apart, in times of scarcity of food 
or other emergencies; and the night time, when the sea is calmer and 
the wind lighter, was generally selected for voyaging. They steered by 
the stars; but if the night became cloudy, or a strong wind arose, they 
would simply lower their sails, entreat the protection of their gods, and 
then quietly resign themselves to drift whither sea and wind might bear 
them. 
These Iaians were the original occupants of their island, but whence 
they came or when they settled there, I never could ascertain. They 
are Papuans, not negritoes, and resemble the peoples on the coast of New 
Guinea. 
As on Iai, so in the New Hebrides; immigrants have been drifted 
thither from Eastern Polynesia. For instance, some forty years ago, 
missionaries from Samoa discovered a tribe of Samoans occupying a dis- 
trict on the island of Efaté (Sandwich Is.), with whom easy intercourse 
was held in their own language. The account of their emigration was to 
this effect :—In one of the sanguinary conflicts which took place in Samoa 
before Christianity was introduced into that group, a large canoe party 
effected their escape from their. conquered district, and fled to seek refuge 
in Tonga. Owing to adverse winds they missed that group, and were 
carried to the New Hebrides, and made the island of Efaté. Here, after 
several conficts with the natives, they were enabled to establish them- 
selves. Many years afterwards they were visited by the John Williams, 
missionary ship, and some elected to return to their former home. The 
islands of Aniwa and Futuna, in the New Hebrides, are peopled by 
natives of Tonga and Futuna proper, westwards from Samoa, and also by . 
emigrants from Tanna. Islands at the north of the New Hebrides also \ 
are inhabited by immigrants probably from the Eastern Pacific. ] 
