KANDAVAU HARBOR.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4229, 9 October 1874, Page 3

KANDAVAU HARBOR.

Kandavau Harbor, or Ngaloa Bay, is thus described by a passenger by the Cyphrenes on her last outward trip : —Bailing down the bay the scenery is very splendid to anyone not acquainted with the tropics and tropical vegetation. - The long low island of Ngaloa is oh your right, clothed in the most gorgeous growth of scrub, and bushes, of the most vivid green right down to the water's edge, in the calm deep blue of which their lower branches and boughs'lazily wave, in such places where the unsightly mangrove does not steal the shore from them with his matted roots and guarled stent” Herd and there out of the thick growth the' stately cocoa-nut rears his head, aud epreads the beautiful palm leaves which make, its great so handsome ; while in .other places throe dr four of them form a clump together, and crown the ridge of the low eminences in the middle. Opposite is the main island, with a rather lofty

chain of hills running east and west, and sending spurs down covered with gorgeously green trees and grass. In a grove of cocoa-nuts at the foot of one of these nestles the village which has sprung up since the line of steamers called there. The water in the bay is the most beautiful blue, and the steamer passes within loss than a stone’s throw of the shore of Ngaloa. Once inside, the harbor is a very safe and extensive one, widening out into a broad bay, with an arm running down between the island of Ngaloa and the main island, which affords the securest of anchorages to any number of vessels.