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Particularly, do you know of the Nan-Matal and the Metalanim?" "Of the Metalanim I have heard and seen photographs," I said. "They call it, don't they, the Lost Venice of the Pacific?" "Look at this map," said Throckmartin. "That," he went on, "is Christian's chart of Metalanim harbour and the Nan-Matal. Do you see the rectangles marked Nan-Tauach?" "Yes," I said.
I recalled as I stumbled along how a trader at Metalanim in the Caroline Islands had swam out to our schooner when we were down there the previous year, and how the poor devil had told old Hergoff, the captain, that a chatak tree at the back of his hut had begun to make faces at him, and I began to understand the complaint that had gripped that trader as I climbed along by the side of the puffing islanders.
"We go first to Ponape and from there to Metalanim Harbour to the Nan-Matal. You know the place?" Huldricksson bowed a white gleam as of ice showing in his blue eyes. "It is there?" he asked. "It is there that we must first search," I answered. "Good!" said Olaf Huldricksson. "It is good!"
"When they were told where they were to go, and how long we expected to stay, they murmured. Those who, at last, were tempted made what I thought then merely a superstitious proviso that they were to be allowed to go away on the three nights of the full moon. Would to God we had heeded them and gone too!" "We passed into Metalanim harbour. Off to our left a mile away arose a massive quadrangle.
The Suwarna took us around to Metalanim Harbour, and there, with the tops of ancient sea walls deep in the blue water beneath us, and the ruins looming up out of the mangroves, a scant mile from us, left us.
You can stand out of Metalanim harbour for three miles and look down upon the tops of similar monolithic structures and walls twenty feet below you in the water. "And all about, strung on their canals, are the bulwarked islets with their enigmatic walls peering through the dense growths of mangroves dead, deserted for incalculable ages; shunned by those who live near.
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