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"_Te fanua, te fanua! te fanua umi, umi lava!_" ("Land, land! a long, long land!")
As we, the "watch below"--Niâbon, Tepi, and myself--heard Tematau's loud cry, we sat up, and saw a long, dark line pencilled on the horizon right ahead, which we knew was the great lonely atoll named Providence Island on the charts, and called Ujilon by the natives of the North-Western Pacific.