In a letter published in the Sydney Herald, of January 14th 1833, it is said, “The natives of Tahiti alone, make forty or fifty tons of cocoa-nut oil in the year, and all the other islands of the groups make an equal proportion. They sell it for calico, that costs about twopence-halfpenny per yard in England, and receive a fathom for four or five gallons. But the owners of vessels from this colony, (New South Wales,) find something more lucrative for their shipping than sending them to the islands, and the natives are discouraged at having no trade. The indigenous arrow-root remains undug, and the cocoa-nuts fall to the ground, and rot.” That the quantity of oil mentioned in the foregoing extract could be made, and even a much larger quantity, I do not doubt; but that it would pay a vessel to proceed from Sydney to the islands, I have my doubts: indeed it has been tried, and found a losing speculation,—native indolence causing much delay to the vessel; as, at one time they have a quantity of oil ready, at other times they are too indolent to manufacture any. Sending a vessel down, therefore, to the islands, is a risk, and as such it is well known to several of the Sydney merchants, although now and then good cargoes have been returned. With industry, however, those valuable and beautiful islands could produce abundance of cocoa-nut oil, sugar, arrow-root, and other articles of equal value; but, under the present state of things, I have not very sanguine hopes. _The names of the Cocoa-nut, and portions of the trees in different countries, where it is found indigenous._ Cocoa-nut—Niu—Society, Friendly, and Fidge Sandwich Islands, Rótuma, Annatom, Tanna, and Immer, (New Hebrides group.) Society Islands Tumu haari, root of the cocoa-nut tree; leaf of the cocoa-palm, Niau; stalk in the centre of the leaflet, Niu. (This part tied up in bundles, forms excellent brooms for ships’ decks.) The fallen unripe fruit, Poniu; cocoa-nut, nearly ripe, Omato; unctuous part of the kernel, Haro; coagulated, or old milk of the nut, Utu; outward covering of the nut, Iri Haari; the hard shell, Abu Haari. At the Tonga Islands:—The plaited fronds, for thatching houses, &c., Baula; husk of the cocoa-nut, Bulu; a shell, husk, &c., Gnedji; cocoa-nut shells, Gnedji niu; a kind of cocoa-nut, the husk of which is eaten, Gnono-gnóno; a very young cocoa-nut, Gnonu; large cocoa-nut shells, for water, Hohoni; a cup, or cocoa-nut shell for drinking out of, Ibu; the oil, emulsion of the cocoa-nut, Loloi.