ABSTRACT
At the steamer's first whistle reluctantly we made our way on board, promising our kind host to look him up without fail on my way back from Ponape, which promise, it will be seen, I faithfully kept. On my return to Yap I took many notes on the mannl:!rs and customs of the natives-their antiquities, traditions and folklore, marine life, flora and geography-all of which I have reserved more appropriately for a later chapter; our first glimpse of Yap being, as it were, a mere bird's-eye view, and as such I give it here.
