3 10 POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
Hergest, in the Daedalus, on his voyage from the 
Falkland Islands to Hawaii, touched at the Mar¬ 
quesas, in March 1792, that the northern cluster was 
explored, or, so far as I have heard, any account of 
them published. This division consists also of five 
islands, Nuuhiva or Nukuhiva, the largest in the 
group, called, by Hergest, Sir H. Martin’s Island, 
Uapou, Trevenian’s Island, Huakuka or Riou’s 
Island, Hergest Rocks, and Robert’s Island. 
Although the latter cluster have been called In¬ 
gram’s Islands, after an American trader, who saw 
them soon after the time of Marchand’s visit,* Her- 
gest’s Island by Vancouver, and more recently 
Washington’s Islands; they are usually, with 
the more southern islands, designated the Mar¬ 
quesas. They extend according to Malte Brun, 
from 7. 51. to 10. 25. S. latitude, and from 138. 
48. to 140. 29. West long. The native names for 
some of the above, I have received from the inha¬ 
bitants, or the account of Mr. Stewart, who recently 
visited them ; in one or two I have followed the 
voyagers by whom they have been visited, and some 
of them may be incorrect. It very frequently 
occurs, that transient visitors mistake the name 
of the bay in which their ships anchor, or the 
opposite district, for that of the whole island; 
hence Ohitahoo, which, according to the ortho¬ 
graphy now used by other tribes of the Pacific, 
would be Vaitahu, the name of one of the dis¬ 
tricts bordering on the bay in which most vessels 
anchor, has been the name generally given to the 
island, called by the natives Tahuata. 
The geographical extent of the group is inferior 
to that of the Georgian and Society Islands. Nuu- 
hiva, the largest, is much smaller than Tahiti, and 
* Introduction to the DufPs Voyage, p. Ixxxiii, 
