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THE “ FAIR sex” SHUN US. 
rather shy, extremely cringing in manner, and super- 
latively eunning. As far as my observation went, they 
liave no arms of any description. In cunning, liowevcr, 
they excel even the Japanese. We tried to get some 
fresh provisions, a few potatoes and chickens, from them, 
hut failed most signally. They complained of poverty, 
drought, thick population, and finally let us sail with two 
(joats which they presented to us. Some of the women 
are very pretty ; hut, as they invariably ran, or turned 
tlieir faces to the wall when too high to be climbed, 
we saw little but their backs. 
As soon as we had filled our bunkers and decks with 
wood, we steamed over to the Anakirima group of islands, 
— distant some twenty miles to the eastward of Nappa,— 
and spent two weeks in surveying them. Daring this 
time we were troubled more than ever with our leaking 
boilers, having often to keep the ship anchored several 
days after blowing the water out of them to let them get 
cool enough for workmen to enter : then, probably, im- 
mediately after getting steam up again, a new leak would 
show itself and the same work have to be repeated. This 
was very harassing to the men and detrimental to the 
survey ; but, like a great many other things, we had to 
get used to it, for it continued till the last day of the 
cruise. This group of islands having never before been 
even examined, I devote a few lines to them. Their cen- 
tral latitude is 26° 12' X., longitude 127° 14' E., and 
they are thinly populated by a lower order of Loo-chooans, 
while a few goats and deer range their rugged heights. 
The unpretending villages of these poor people are found 
in various seaside coves, or snugly stowed away in re- 
