Chief Islands.—Corror, Babelthouap, Pelelion.
Native quadrupeds.—Rats.
Vegetable products.—Coco-nut, bread-fruit, yam, batata, taro, ebony, sugarcane, orange, banana, bamboo, paper-mulberry. Rice and pulse wanting.
The paucity of quadrupeds, and the abundance of tropical vegetables is common to the Pelew Islands, and the whole of Polynesia. Hence, it is mentioned once for all. The chief exception, however, is an important one. The hog will be found to be partially distributed; and the partial character of its distribution has been one of the instruments of ethnological criticism (especially in the hands of the French naturalists), by means of which the order of succession in which the different islands have been peopled has been investigated.
CLUSTER OF GOULOU.[63]
Direction.—North-east from the Pelews.
Locality.—Between the Pelews and the—
CLUSTER OF YAP. OULUTHY OR EGOY ISLANDS. THE MARIANNES.
Synonym.—Ladrones.
Name of Natives.—Chamorros.