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These salts yielded upon analysis the following results : 
Chlorine : 8 A : A 2 3577 
Sodium 5 c : 6 : : 7 1-665 or Soda—2:238 
Magnesia. 6 : . dj . . 0:440 
Lime c 3 9 : 0 4 : 0°366 
Silica and iron, with a trace of phosphate of lime . 7 0:200 
Carbonic acid . , - q . . 5 0:493 
6°741 
Organic matter and loss : . ° : 459 
7-200 
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 inactive for ten or twelve days, until Captain Hudson 
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 Sandalwood Bay, he pleaded 
the literal construction of his orders; they will be found in Appendix 
VII. On such duty, a commanding officer frequently labours under a 
disadvantage from giving officers more credit for a zealous disposition 
than they deserve. I thought the orders were sufficiently explicit to 
have allowed a construction to be placed upon them that would have 
saved much valuable time, and have left the officer full liberty to work 
hard if he were so inclined. The bay of Mbua was not even surveyed, 
and I was forced to send him back again the same afternoon to the 
survey of the route he had already passed over. 
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 bya 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- 
