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wise—these filmy specks are quite distinct from the points of 
bright muntz metal which are seen on the old sheathing, and 
penetrating, as it were, the scale or crust, and I am inclined to 
regard them as gold. 
As I have pointed out elsewhere, under certain conditions gold 
is thrown down from very dilute solution by the action of reducing 
agents, in the form of bright particles or crystals—the amount of 
gold in such a particle might be extremely small, for 300,000,000 
grain of gold leaf is visible under the microscope, a piece of cor- 
responding size set free from gold lace would of course be far less 
in weight. I hope to investigate this matter further, and in the 
course of another two years it may be desirable to complete this 
series of experiments by examining the twenty-one plates which 
have been left on the piles for a longer exposure. 
SOME FOLK-SONGS ann MYTHS rrom SAMOA. 
By Joun FRAsER, LL.D. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, August 7, 1895.) 
‘O LE TALA I LE SEGA. 
“The story about the Senga bird.” 
(Taree Versions, Nos. xXXv., XXXVI., XXXVII.) 
ROAR Sine 
Intropuction.—The three myths, which I now present to you, about 
the Senga parroquet, again show us how intimately Fiji and Samoa wer? 
connected in the minds of the early myth-makers. The incidents of the 
story are laid in the time of Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa, the first king of the Samoa? 
group, and the immediate successor of the gods who had previously ruled 
there. And yet in this myth, as in several others, there is a coming 
going between Fiji and Samoa—a black race and a brown race—#? : 
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