Particular islands.—Lamoursek, Satawal, Faroilep (the most northern), Aurupig (the most southern).
PROPER CAROLINE GROUP.
Direction.—From the Lamoursek and Satawal group fifteen degrees westward.
Particular islands.—Hogoleu, Lougounor, Pounipet, Ualan.
A distinction which will often be applied in Polynesian ethnology may now be made. It is the difference between the geological structure of the different islands. Whether they are what is called high or low is important. In the high islands, where the structure is primitive, metamorphic, or volcanic, the conditions for social development are more favourable than in the low islands, of a coralline structure. In these last the food is less abundant, the sun more scorching, and, generally, the complexion of the inhabitants darker.
Again, the inhabitants of the low islands are generally at peace amongst themselves: those of the high islands at war.
In the ethnology of the Paumoto Archipelago, this distinction will be repeated. So it will elsewhere.
LOUGOUNOR.
Synonym.—Lougoullos. Mortlock island.
Physical conformation.—Stature, above the average; colour, chestnut, lips thick, beard long but thin, hair black, long, thick, slightly curling (un peu crépu), sometimes frizzy—Lütke, from Prichard.