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St. Joseph, near Gardenijs, Bismarck archipelago; about 650 ft. high; inhabited. 



St. Matthias or San Matthias, of the Bismarck archipelago, was discovered by 

 Dampier; 24 m. E-w., 15 m. n-s. i° 40' s., 149° 40' E.O 10. 



St. Patrick, of the Admiralty group. 2° 32' S., 147° 15' E. 



St. Peter, see Ponafidin of the Bonin islands. 



St. Phalle, island in Arembo bay on the southwest side of New Caledonia. 



St. Phalle, islet on the west part of Balabio reef, New Caledonia. 

 v St. Simeon, see Tauere, Paumotu archipelago. 2,1. 



Saipan or Seypan, of the Marianas, was discovered by Magalha.es March 6, 152 1. 

 Volcanic; 14 m. long, 1345 ft. high (Marche). Once populous, but now depopu- 

 lated by the Spaniards who also drove out an American colony in 1815. In 1877 

 it was repeopled by importing 876 Chamorros and Caroline islanders. Saipan is 

 the Serpana of Ouiros, who visited it in 1596. 15° 15' N., 145 44' E. See map 

 under title Marianas. 



Sakau, islet off northeast point of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides; about 500 ft. high. 



Sakau, islet southeast from Malekula, New Hebrides; 1.7 m. NE-SW.; 340 ft. high. 



Sakea, islet of Fakaafo. 9 26' S., 171° 13' w. 



Saken, see Katiu of the Paumotu archipelago. 2,1. 



Salat or Chassant, islet of Ruk, Caroline islands. 



Sala y Gomez was discovered in 1793 by the Spanish commander of that name. 



Small, rocky; inhabited only by birds. 26° 27' 41" S., 105° 28' w. 

 ■ Saltoi, see Arorai of the Gilbert islands. 



Salwati, off the northwest coast of New Guinea. About 30 m. in diameter. Subject 

 to the Sultan of Tidore. Papuan with admixture of Malay. Mohammedans. 

 Wild tribes in the interior. i° 15' S., 130° 45' E. 



Sam, a low island of Fiji. 17 35' 30" s., 177 25' 20" E.O 



Samarai or Dinner, in China strait, New Guinea ; 1.5 m. in circumference, 155 ft. high. 

 From June to December not unhealthy. No good water. io° 37' S., 150° 41' E. 



Samarang, a name of Palmyra. 



Samba, native name of Mendafia's Santa Ysabel, Solomon islands. 



Samoan Islands lie between the parallels 13° 30'- 14° 30' S. and the meridians 

 i68°-i73°w. Krusenstern believed them identical with the Bauman islands seen 

 by Roggewein in 172 1. So far as any certain knowledge of them was obtained we 

 are indebted to Bougainville who, in 1768, touched there and called the group 

 lies des Navigateurs. The Wilkes expedition, in 1839, surveyed them with some 

 care. The group (with the exception of Rosa or Rose island) is volcanic, but 

 without active craters ; although near Olosenga there was a submarine eruption 

 in 1866. There are 13 islands generally surrounded by coral reefs, and there is 

 but one good harbor in the group, that at Pangopango on Tutuila, for Apia on 

 Upolu has only an open anchorage within the reef. The islands are, beginning 

 at the west end, Savaii, Manono, Apolima, Upolu, Fanuatapu, Namua, Nuutele, 

 Nuulua, belonging to Germany ; and Tutuila, Anuu, Ofu, Olosenga, Tau and 

 Rose belonging to the United States. Civil wars have prevailed of late years and 



England, Germany and the United States undertook to establish peace and a gov- 



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