Note 192 — XVI.
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Captain Andrew Cheyne, of the English mercantile service, to whom the sea-faring world is indebted for a very complete and excellent account of the islands of the West Pacific, and who last visited Puynipet in 1846, reckoned the population of the island at that period at from 7000 to 8000. See a description of islands in the Western Pacific Ocean, North and South of the Equator, with sailing Directions, &c. p. 94. London, J. D. Potter. 1852.—Sailing Directions from New South Wales to China and Japan. Compiled from the most Authentic Sources. By Andrew Cheyne, first Class Master, Mercantile Navy. p. 136. London, J. D. Potter. 1855.