For the position of this and the adjacent islands, see the map in Chapter XXXVII.] I stayed some time at a place where I saw a new clearing on a very steep part of the mountain, and obtained a few interesting insects.

In the evening we went on to the extreme southern point, to be ready to pass across the fifteen-mile strait to the island of Kaioa.

At five the next morning we started, but the wind, which had hitherto been westerly, now got to the south and southwest, and we had to row almost all the way with a burning sun overhead.

As we approached land a fine breeze sprang up, and we went along at a great pace; yet after an hour we were no nearer, and found we were in a violent current carrying us out to sea.
At length we overcame it, and got on shore just as the sun set, having been exactly thirteen hours coming fifteen miles.

We landed on a beach of hard coralline rock, with rugged cliffs of the same, resembling those of the Ke Islands (Chap.