Soon discovering a passage through the reef, we ran in, and were at once surrounded by canoes full of people, wondering who we were and whence we had come.  Our friends quickly gave an outline of our and their adventures, to satisfy curiosity.  They found there several people from their own island, one a chief who had become a wealthy man.  He took them to his own house, and had their canoe hauled up to be repaired.  I need not say that she was visited by all the foreign residents, curious to examine a craft of so frail a structure which had performed so long a voyage.  Our consul was very civil to us, and we were received into the house of an English gentleman, who treated us with the greatest kindness.  As we met with no very interesting adventures during our stay here, I will content myself with giving a brief account of the island.