ABSTRACT
Their Canoes made several trips ashore & brought always new arrows & bows off. The night before, our people caught in the harbour a large red Fish7 of the Sea-Bream-kind (probably the
1 This is an error. There was no general native name for any of these islands in Cook's
day. According to local legend six men from Fonah on Ambrym on a visit to Port Sandwich gave Cook a pig and a yam saying Ama rem — ' Your yam' — hence Ambrym, 'the name to be* of the island. Cf. W. F. Paton, 'The Tale about Ama rem (Your Yam)' in The Language and Life of Ambrym; an Island in the New Hebrides (Sydney, South Pacific Commission, 1956), p. 3.
