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NOKTH MELANESIA. 329west, and which is nothiug but an upraised crater in the older crater of BlancheHarbour. But the village having been half destroyed by a volcanic eruption, thecentre of the administration was again shifted, this time to the islet of Keraivara,which is situated south-west of Mioko, and which has the advantage of a roadsteadaccessible to the largest vessels. Not more than a thousand tons of copra areannually exported from this place.Fig. UO.— Neu-Lauenburg (Yoke) Island.Scale 1 : I7ii.ri.iii.Ea3\ MUes.25 Fathomsand upwards.The officials of the trading company which represents the German power inthese waters have hitherto been mainly occupied in superintending the emigration,or rather the transportation, of the natives carried off to work on the plantations ofthe whites.The slave markets have certainly been replaced by markets of "freelabour ;" but the difference between the operations of all these labour vessels is