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INDEX TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



E-w. X15 m. N-s. 3000 ft. high. Challoigcr visited the group and named after 

 the officers nearly every bay, point or rock. Jesus Maria, La X'andola, Elisabeth, 

 Sugar-loaf, Western, Wild, Suhm, and many mere rocks compose this interesting 

 group now included in the Bismarck archipelago. The inhabitants are not very 

 dark, often dye their black hair red; wear little clothing — the men, as their sole 

 garment, a white cowr}^ shell; use splints of obsidian for knives and spear points; 

 carve fine circular bowls often of great size ; principal food, sago. Centre of prin- 

 cipal island about 2° 10' S., 147" 00' E. lO. 



Admiralty Islets, a small group a mile and a half from north end of Lord Howe 

 island. 



Adventure, see Motutunga of the Paumotu islands. 31. 



Adventurer Islands are two islands about half a mile in extent, low, wooded, and 

 conneAed by a reef. Reported in 1877 by Mr. Ebury, master of the Adventurer. 

 Existence is doubted. 



Agaga*= Anganga of the Fiji group. 



Agakanitai, an islet of Mangareva. 



Agata, south of Yasawa towards Naviti, Fiji. Is it confounded with Agate? 



Agate, in the Yasawa group, Fiji, near Naviti. Small, rock}-, high. 17° 11' 30" S., 

 177' 08' 10" E. Named for one of the artists of the United States Exploring 

 Expedition. 14. 



Agomes ^ Hermit islands in the Bismarck archipelago. 10. 



Agrigan, of the Marianas. A volcanic island 6 m. long by 2 m. broad, and 2000 ft. 

 high. 18° 48' N., 145° 40' E. In 1810 Captain Brown and other Americans with 

 several families of Hawaiians formed a colony on this island, but it was broken up 

 by the vSpaniards who destroyed the plantations and carried off the Hawaiians to 

 slaverv and they were never again heard from. vSee Chamisso in Kotzebue's 

 voyage. For map of the group see Marianas. 



Aguari, see Santa Catalina, Solomon islands. II. 



Ague, islet of the Harcourt group on the northeast coast of New Caledonia. 



Aguijan, of .the Marianas, was discovered by Magelhaes March 6, 1521, in 14° 51' n., 

 145" 30' E. It is 3 m. long bv 2 m. wide and uninhabited. 



Ahangatou ^ Angatou of the Paumotu group. 2I. 



Ahii, or Peacock, is low, coral, inhabited, and about 13 m. long. The east end is 

 14" 27' 20" S., 146° 13' 24" E. 30. 



Ahunui, also called Fangataufa and Cockburn, of the Paumotu group, was discovered 

 bv Captain Beechev in 1826 and named after the Comptroller of the Navy. It is 

 a closed lagoon island nearly 4 m. in diameter and the southwest end is in 



22 17 S., 138 39 53 W. 



Aidoumea, or Aidoema, on the south coast of New Guinea. 3" 58' .S., 134" 00' E. 



Called formerlv Isla del Capitauo Luis Yaes de Torres from its discoverer. 

 Ailinginae, or Remski-Korsakoff of the Marshall islands is 12 m. southwest from 



Rongerik. It is 15 m. E-w. and 4 m. N-s.; uninhabited. It was discovered b}- 



Kotzebue, and the southwest point is 11° 08' N., 166° 20' E. 



*.\lthough this is the correct form it has seemed best in giving the Vitian names to adopt the phonetic spelling: g is pronounced ns, 

 c is th, and b is mb. Thus Cakob.iu is pronounced Thakombau; Baga. Mbanga. etc. 



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