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Rh half fathoms of water; beyond the weed there is another bank of rocks, exposed at low water. A small vessel may anchor within these reefs, where there is a depth of from eleven to thirteen feet, and always smooth water.

This creek is called Wai Tangui, which signifies noise of waters, or sounding waters. It is upon its banks or shores that the tribe of Eitouna was established.

At a mile and a quarter to the north of the red point is a bank, upon which there are only six or seven fathoms water; the sea breaks upon it in strong winds, and it abounds with fish.

At 40 W. (true) from Red Point, at a distance of nine miles and a third, is a fine little cove, called Wangaroa (Anse d'Ubraye). It is open to the south-east, and the sea is always tranquil. The entrance is rather more than half a mile in breadth, and a mile in depth. To the right and left, in entering, are some rocks under water, which extend a small distance from the shore, and upon which the sea almost always breaks. There is no occasion to avoid a large bank of floating sea-weed which lies in the middle of the passage, a little within the cove; there are eleven fathoms water upon it. But it is necessary to avoid getting amongst the sea-weed further in upon the southwest side, because there are amongst it some points of rocks on which there are only twelve or thirteen feet of water. The north-east side is also lined with sea-weed. The anchorage is between two small indentations, opposite to each other, and one third of a mile from the end of the cove, in eight fathoms water, which forms a kind of basin. The principal Pah of Eimaré is built upon the north-east side of this cove.

At Wangaroa, as at Wai Tangui, wood and water may be had at the end of the cove. W. 30° S. of the Wangaroa cove, at a distance of four miles, is that of Jean Bart, a little larger than the former; its direction is S.S.E. and N.N.W. It is less protected from winds between S.W. ¼ S. and S.E. ¼ S.