146 INDEX TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. 



Sin Puerto (Isla), discovered by Quiros January 29, 1606, in 24° 45' S.,= San Juan 

 Bautista? Islands without port are not exceptional. 



Sir Charles Hardy lies to the east of New Ireland ; 300 ft, high ; wooded. 



Sir Charles Hardy, a group on the Australian coast. 11° 54' s., 143° 28' E. 



Sir Charles Saunders, a name given b}- Wallis to Tapamanu of the Society islands. 



Sir Edward Pellew, a group at the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria ; 5 islets, of 

 which \'anderlin is the largest. 



Sir Henry Martin, a name of Nukuhiva of the Marquesas islands. 23. 



Sisters, two small islands off the coast of Malaita, Solomon islands. 



Six Islands, see Apaiang of the Gilbert islands. 



Skelton, a name of Naranarawai of the Louisiade archipelago. 



Skiddy, see Namoluk, Caroline islands. 



Skobelev, islet in Friedrich Karl harbor on the north coast of New Guinea. 



Slade, see Berri Berrije in the Engineer group off New Guinea. 10° 37' s., 151° 16' E. 



SloSS group, in the Louisiade archipelago, consists of Rara and Panaroba, both small 

 and wooded. 



Small, an islet east from Duau, D'Entrecasteaux group. lo"" 06' s., 151° 15' E. 



Smith, low islet of the Underwood group, Fiji. 17 " 43' s., 177° 16' 20" E.O 



Smith = Babagarai near Glenton, New Guinea; uninhabited. 



Smyth, see Taongi of the Marshall islands. 



Snares, a group of rocks 250 ft high, southwest from Stewart island. New Zealand. 



Sobareigi, north from Saibai, New Guinea. 9° 22' S., 142° 42' E. 



Sobasoba, islet of Duau, D'Entrecasteaux group. 9° 49' S., 150° 48' E. 



Society Islands, so named b}' Cook, in 1769, in honor of the Royal Society, were 

 first discovered by Quiros in 1606. Captain Wallis rediscovered the group June 

 19, 1767, and knowing nothing of previous observations called it for his patron, 

 George III., King George Islands. At that time Lieutenant Furneaux took for- 

 mal possession. April 2, 1768, Bougainville arrived at Tahiti in the Boiidcnse, 

 and after a short experience with the inhabitants called it La Nouvelle Cj'trehe. 

 The famous transit of Venus expedition, commanded by Lieutenant Cook, arrived 

 April 12, 1769. After the observations were concluded Cook surveyed Tahiti 

 (Otaheite) and discovered the northwestern group to which he gave the name 

 Society, calling Tahiti and the neighboring islands Georgian, but his first name 

 has been extended to the whole group. In 1772 Bonecheo was sent b}' the Span- 

 ish government to these islands, and on his report he was again sent with the 

 means of colonizing as then understood, in 1774. Cook twice again visited Tahiti. 

 The next European to arrive was Lieutenant Bligh in the Bounty in 1788. Van- 

 couver came in 179 1. In 1842, on account of hostilities to French missionaries, 

 Du Petit Thouars compelled Queen Pomare to sign a treaty in favor of French- 

 men, and this was followed in 1844 b}- the forcible seiz.ure of the island by Bruat 

 in the name of Louis Philippe of France. In 1888 the entire group was declared 

 under a French proteAorate. 



While government accounts are kept in francs and centimes, the merchants 

 all do business with the Chilean dollar. The principal exports are cotton, copra, 



coconuts, oranges, vanilla, lime juice and edible fungus. All tropical fruits grow 



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