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Pari, two islands off the northeast coast of Gixadalcanar, Solomon islands. 9° 43' 30" s., 

 160° 46'E. Pari pile is smaller than Pari snle, which is about i m. E-w. by half a mile. 



Parivara, see Varivara, New Giiinea. 



Pariwara, two islets near Redscar bay, New Guinea. 



Parry, a small group of the Bonin islands. 27° 40' n., 142° 14' E. 



Parry, islet of Eniwetok, Marshall islands. 11° 21' n., 162° 25' E. 



Parry, see Mauki of the Hervey islands. 



Parseval is at the entrance to Port St. Vincent, New Caledonia. 



Parum or Parram, islet of Ponape, Caroline islands. 



Pass, see Anchorage, Suvaroff group. 



Passage, in Choiseul bay, Solomon islands. 



Passage, see Ovalu, Fiji. 



Passage, see Vatu i thake, Fiji. 



Patik, islet of Ponape, Caroline islands. 



Patrocitlio or Byer, of the Hawaiian group, was discovered by Captain Zipiani, of the 

 Spanish ship Nucstra Scnora del PHaf in 1799; 3 m. long, volcanic. Called Byer 

 by Captain Morrell, July, 1825. Place doubtful. 28° 30' N., 177' 18' E. It has 

 been expunged from the British Admiralty charts on perhaps insufficient grounds. 



Patimotu, Tuamotu or Low archipelago. Coral atolls extending over sixteen degrees 

 of longitude. The native name means "Cloud (or bunch) of islands." Quiros, in 

 1606, saw several islands of the group, but these cannot now be determined so 

 great is the similarity among all these islands. Many of the great navigators ob- 

 served several islands, but Wilkes (1841) gave more accurate details, and to his 

 surveys the modern charts are chiefly indebted. The inhabitants vary from the 

 Vitian to the Tahitian tj'pe. There are 78 atolls each numbering manj' islets; 18 

 atolls are inhabited, the population being estimated at 8000, nearly all of them 

 Protestants. Flies are very troublesome. Principal exports, copra and pearl shell, 

 in the hands of American and British merchants of Tahiti. France took the 

 archipelago in 1844 and the French Resident is stationed on Fakarava. The de- 

 tached islands to the southeast, Ducie, Hendenson, Pitcairn and Oeno are British 

 possessions. From the stru6lure of the atolls their form is continuall}' changing, 

 and occasionally in severe storms the sea breaks over them destroying the inhabi. 

 tants and making radical changes in the geography-. 20, 31, 32. 



Pavuvu, see Russell, Solomon islands. 



Peacock, see Ahii of tlie Paumotu archipelago. 30. 



Peak, see Panabahai of the Louisiade archipelago. 



Peard, a name of Mangareva or Gambler. 33. 



Pearl and Hermes reef, Hawaiian islands. Discovered in 1S22 by two whalers, 

 I'carl and IIcducs wrecked near the eastern end on the same night, within ten 

 miles of each other. An atoll extending E-w. 16 m., n-s. 9 m., or 40 m. in circum- 

 ference, with 12 islets, the southeast one in 27 47' 50" N., 175° 51' \\'. 3. 



Peddlar, see Arno, Marshall islands. 



Peel, one of the Coffin group, Bonin islands. 27 08' N., 142"" 15' E. 



Pegan, St. David, Freewill or Onata. Reported by ship ]Varzaick in 1761. Atoll 14 m. 

 N-s., with 4 low islets; inhabited. Under the Dutch flag, o" 57' N., 134" 21' E. 



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