1. From Pounipet to the Isles of Brown; with Providence Isles half-way between. 2. From Ualan to the Radak chain, or Mulgrave's Islands. ISLES OF BROWN.--RALIK CHAIN. _Synonym._--Marshall's Islands. RADACK CHAIN. _Synonym._--Mulgrave's Islands. The Radack and Ralik people are dark. The direction is now south, and south-west, to an Archipelago lying under the Equator. KINGSMILL'S GROUP. GILBERT ISLANDS. SCARBOROUGH ISLANDS. _General name._--The Tarawan group. _Latitude._--North and south of the Equator. _Longitude._--Nearly that of the Fiji islands. _Population._--Perhaps sixty thousand. In Drummond's Island six thousand. _Physical appearance._--Complexion dark copper. More Protonesian than Polynesian. Cheek-bones projecting, nose slightly aquiline. Average height five feet eight inches. In Pitt Island, the most northern of the group, the natives are lighter in colour than the other islanders, taller, stronger, and better-limbed; with smooth bodies, oval faces, and regular and delicate features. THE PROPER POLYNESIAN BRANCH OF THE POLYNESIAN STOCK. _Area._--The Navigators, Society, Friendly, and other groups of the Pacific. The Marquesas; the Dangerous Archipelago; Easter Island; the Sandwich Isles; New Zealand, &c. With the exception of the Sandwich Isles and New Zealand, south and east of Micronesia. Nearer to Kelænonesia than to any part of Protonesia. _Physical conformation._--Maximum and, perhaps, average stature higher than in Micronesia. Aquiline nose commoner. Varieties both of hair and complexion. The former wavy and curled as well as straight; sometimes chestnut-coloured. Skin, often fairest in the parts nearest the Equator; becoming darker as the distance increases. Oftener, also, darker in the coralline than in the volcanic islands. Face oval. Ears generally large. Zygomatic development moderate. Occipito-frontal profiles truncated behind, elevated at the vertex. Nostrils generally spreading. _Language._--Dialects mutually intelligible; probably unintelligible to the Micronesians. _Political relations._--Wholly independent, colonized, or protected. _Religion._--Paganism, Romanism, Protestantism, Imperfect Christianity. _European intermixture._--Chiefly English, American, and French. _Habits._--The superstition of the _tabu_; the use of _kava_ as a drink. See the notice of Micronesia. Cannibalism, tattooing, circumcision, more or less, common.