Ethan+B

PETER DILLON 2010,

//on the 1st of september// moderate trade winds with cloudy weather. After daybreak we stood in for the land, wich had buitiful verdant apperance, with houses called bures with thached roofs and 4 doors. they also have coco nut and breadfruit trees.

we where approaching the northeast point of the island we percieved two small islets extending from the shore about a mile, and connecting withit by a reef of rocks. it appeared abundance of water could be obtained from the wells on shore.

About eight or ten years ago the island was hit by a tropical cyclone, it ruined all of their agrculture and caused a food shortage. in consequence of this, all the hogs on the island were destroyed. even the breed became extinct for several years, until the coastguard supplied them with a fresh stock because he found them from a tsunami that hit tonga just after the well known tsunami that hit Indonesia in 2004. Then the numbers of the hogs were increasing, their was about one hundred pigs on the island; I gave parker a young tonga boar and a sow. they were very happy because there is not many hogs on the islands.

The products on the island are small yams, a type of large sweet potatoe, cocoa-nuts, bannanas, sugar-canes, and tara, at that certain season of the year the bread fruit abounds; but generaly the productions of the island are not abundant: and this smaal spot being really populated, the surpolse product is but inconsiterable at all times.

The local people use the currency of dollar bills with the queen of england

this island has six districts, all of them with there own chief. These meet in congres every six months, when they electa president and deliberate upon state affairs,