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16. Tokokimoa (typical)
17. Toliakava (typical, property of
magistrate)
18. Motutulatula ) small and separated
19. Patano' ) only by narrow
) channel
20. Logotana (typical)
(n)
21. Tesugalu )
22. Rapa ) very small and part
23. Falatuhsi) of No. 21
24. Vaiasa (typical)
25. Matakiton)ga (very small, used as
salt works)
26. Pagai (typical)
27. Teoki (typical) small, pigs.
28. Nukumasaga tele )
29. " laituti ) typucal, small
30. Mukuseseko (typical
31. Otafi (4 small islets, typical)
32. Fugalei (small, oval, sub-typical)
33. Motuili ) one mass close to-
34. Niue ) gether. Niue on sea
35. Motuakea ) side. Sub-typical
36. Motuloa (typical)
37. Saketai "
38. Kaivave "
39. Ofuna )
40. Manumea ) close together
(n)
41. Olokaloga (typical)
42. Palea tall Buka trees
43. Fenuatapu (small)
44. Matagi (n) (large, long and luxuriant)
45. Talapeka ) small and separated
46. Avaono ) by channel from the large
islands on each side
47. Mulifonua (large, luxuriant)
Each of the little islets marked "typical" consists of a more or less
circular, low mass of sand, gravel, coral and soil, rising perhaps 6 to 10 feet
above the reef and covered (like a pincushion) with an open stand of tall
coconut palms, some leaning out over the beach. Below the coconut palms there
may be a fringe of Scaevola bushes and low Tournefortia trees, with perhaps a
few Pemphis bushes. In.the middle is a tuft (of greater or less extent) con-
sisting of Buka, Puapua trees, Pandanus (called "fala"), occasionally Kou,
Ipomoea. The underbrush consists of birdsnest, maile and brake ferns, and a
very little purple flowered Boerhaavia and bunch and mat grass.
Met by a whole fleet of canoes, the natives swarming aboard and trying
to sell us fiber and wooden nicknacks, strings of shells and articles of
food - chickens, bananas, coconuts.