56 INDEX TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



Delami :^ Roporopo in Orangerie bay, southeast coast of New Guinea. 



Deliverance islet, a point in the north boundary- of Queensland colony. 9' 34' s., 

 141° 45' E. 



Denham, islet at west end of Kandavu, Fiji. 



Ueni is the native name of Nitendi or Santa Cruz in the New Hebrides, according to 

 Codrington. 



Dent, island in Northwest bay, Campbell island, New Zealand. 



D'^ntrecasteaux group was seen from a distance by the French navigator from whom 

 it is named. Captain Moresby examined the islands in 1874. The group con- 

 sists of Duau (Normanb^-), Moratau (Fergusson), Dauila ( Goodenough ), Rapu- 

 tata Sanaroa (Welle), Dobu (Goulvain), all of them high and fine islands, well 

 peopled. 9. 



D'Hntrecasteaux, inhabited islet half a mile long in the Admiraltv group. i°53's., 

 146" 30' E. 



De Peyster, see Nukufetau of the Ellice group. 16. 



D'Haussez, .see Ivlercury, New Zealand. 



Des I^acS, one of the French group, 1550 ft. high, inhabited. 4'38's., 149° 33' E. lO, 



Des Lanciers, a name given by Bougainville to Akiaki or Thrum Cap of the Paumotu 

 islands. 



Devarenne, islet in St. \'incent bay on the southwest side of New Caledonia. 



Deverd, islet off Chasseloup bay on the northwest coast of New Caledonia. 



Didigili, wooded islet, 150 ft. high, with fringing reef on the southeast coast of New 

 Guinea. 



Didot, islet in Mueo passage near Noumea, New Caledonia. 



Didymus, see Ito, islet on the New Guinea coast. 



Dieterici, a small group on the northeast coast of Bougainville, Solomon islands. 

 6" 08' s., 155' 23' E. 



Digaragara, islet at west opening of the outer ring of Egum atoll in the Kiriwina 

 group. 9" 22' 30" S., 151° 53' E. 9. 



Dingen, small island in Dampier strait. 



Dinner, see Samarai on the coast of New Guinea. 



Direction ^=- IManevai, Santa Cruz islands. 



Direftion, see Namena, Fiji. 



Disappointment islands (of Bvron), in the Paumotu archipelago, were discovered by 

 Bvron June 17, 1765. 14" 09' s., 141° 14' w. Consist of atoll Napuka or Why- 

 toohee and Tepoto or Otooho. 2,1. 



Disappointment, off the west coast of the Auckland islands, New Zealand. 



Disappointment, one of the Taumaco group. 



Disappointment, is the largest of the Duff group, 1200 ft. high. Natives are Poly- 

 nesian, number about 350, thin and uglv, armed with bows and poisoned arrows. 



Disappointment, see Rosario of the Bonin islands. 



Dobu, or Goulvain, is at the entrance to Dawson strait in the D'Entrecasteaux group, 

 2 m. N-s., 2.2 m. E-w.; inliabited bv Papuans. 9 46' s., 150° 52' E. 9. 



Dodogessa, islet off Dauila in the D'Entrecasteaux group. 



Dog, see Nonuti of the Gilbert group. 



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