WEST COAST. 
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influence of their coast settlements, I communacated 
these particulars to the late Dr. Prichard, the father of 
ethuographical science in this country, soon after my 
arrival in England, in 1845, and have every reason to 
believe that he considered the explanation as satisfactory** 
It should be mentioned that I am indi\ndually interested 
in maintaining the naraCj aa I have frequently alluded to 
the " ilrafuraa " in my earlier writings, and it was at my 
suggestion that the Hydrographer of the Admiralty 
applied the name to the sea enclosed by Ceram and the 
adjacent coasts of Australia and New Guinea, in a chart 
and sailing directions published by that department in 
the year 1837. 
• See Priohard, "Besearohes into the Physical History of 
Mankind,*' vol. v, p. 256. 
