File:Stickchart from the Marshall Islands - Chart I - 79 cm - p. 496 - Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1899.jpg

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Annual Report Smithsonian Institution 1899, p. 496

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496 SEA CHARTS USED IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. From Jochom I learned that he had seen in northern Ratack charts of entire!}' difierent form and application. I engaged Jochcm to send to Jaluit such charts whenever he could procure them or could interest persons living there to obtain specimens of them. With these prefatory remarks, it will now be in order for me to give the interpretation of those in hand.

CHART I.

Dimensions from A to B, 79 centimeters. It is a Mattang, or instruction chart, also one which makes clear only in a general way the navigation or the course of the dunungs between two islands. The islands ...

Text Appearing After Image: Chart I.—A Mattang, or instruction chart.

are in A and B fixed for north-south course, and in D and E for east-west course. The sides A D, D B, B E, and E A serve rather to hold all together, still D A and D B were pointed out as the Rilib or east channel for D: E A and E B the Kaelib. or west channel for E; A D and A E the Bungdockeing, or north channel for A; B D and B E the Bungdockerik, or south channel for B. R R i points out the Rear, or east. t M is an east duniiag or Rilib for A. V M is a Kaelib or dunung for A. u M is a Rilib or east dunung for B. w M is a Kaelib for B.