The next considerable island is that of Mallicollo.  To the S.E. it extends N.W. and S.E., and is eighteen leagues long in that direction.  Its greatest breadth, which is at the S.E., end, is eight leagues.  The N.W. end is two-thirds this breadth, and near the middle, one-third.  This contraction is occasioned by a wide and pretty deep bay on the S.W. side.  To judge of this island from what we saw of it, it must be very fertile and well inhabited.  The land on the sea-coast is rather low, and lies with a gentle slope from the hills which are in the middle of the island.  Two-thirds of the N.E. coast was only seen at a great distance; therefore the delineations of it can have no pretensions to accuracy; but the other parts, I apprehend, are without any material errors.

St Bartholomew lies between the S.E. end of Tierra del Espiritu Santo, and the north end of Mallicollo; and the distance between it and the latter is eight miles.  This is the passage through which M. de Bougainville went; and the middle of it is in latitude 15 deg. 48’.

The Isle of Lepers lies between Espiritu Santo and Aurora Island, eight leagues from the former, and three from the latter, in latitude 15 deg. 22’, and nearly under the same meridian as the S.E.. end of Mallicollo.  It is of an egg-like figure, very high, and eighteen or twenty leagues in circuit.  Its limits were determined by several bearings; but the lines of the shore were traced out by guess, except the N.E. part where there is anchorage half a mile from the land.

Aurora, Whitsuntide, Ambrym, Paoom, and its neighbour Apee, Threehills, and Sandwich Islands, lie all nearly under the meridian of 167 deg. 29’ or 30’ E., extending from the latitude of 14 deg. 51’ 30”, to 17 deg. 53’ 30”.

The island of Aurora lies N. by W. and S. by E., and is eleven leagues long in that direction; but I believe, it hardly any where exceeds two or two and a half in breadth.  It hath a good height, its surface hilly, and every where covered with wood, except where the natives have their dwellings and plantations.

Whitsuntide Isle, which is one league and a half to the south of Aurora, is of the same length, and lies in the direction of north and south, but is something broader than Aurora Island.  It is considerably high, and clothed with wood, except such parts as seemed to be cultivated, which were pretty numerous.

From the south end of Whitsuntide Island to the north side of Ambrym is two leagues and a half.  This is about seventeen leagues in circuit; its shores are rather low, but the land rises with an unequal ascent to a tolerably high mountain in the middle of the island, from which ascended great columns of smoke; but we were not able to determine whether this was occasioned by a volcano or not.  That it is fertile and well inhabited, seems probable from the quantities of smoke which we saw rise out of the woods, in such parts of the island as came within the compass of our sight; for it must be observed, that we did not see the whole of it.