-137- For many years (since 1875, or earlier) cheap rifles and guns were traded with the inhabitants of the New Hebrides. Wawn (1893) says of laborers returning from Australia to their homes: "Tanna men's boxes were almost always exceedingly heavy, on account of the quantity of bullets, and lead for slugs, that they collected to take home with them." and "Every Tanna-man owned a musket or two." A Queensland regulation was passed prohibiting the export of fire arms to the South Sea Islands, but Wawn says this simply transferred the trade to the French and Germans, and at the present time (1893 ?) the principal article of trade consists of British-made Snider carbines. Aboi: one of three islets s. of Serguey Point, Malekula; 160 ft. high; densely wooded; bold coast on s. side; unin- hab. Aepari [= Tanna]. Aessi: islet bordering Undine Passage, on w. coast Espiritu Santo. Haiite. Aipegerouma [= Tanna]. Aiperé [= Tama]. Ambirr [= Ambrym]. Ambrym: 24 x 16 mi.; 4380 ft. high; several peaks; volcanic (active in 1893 - 94); some bold high bluffs on coast; densely wooded; inhab. (friendly on w. side, but little known of those on s. and e. coasts). A hospital located at Dip Point.