TONGA ISLANDS

TONGA ISLANDS
   or FRIENDLY ISLANDS
   (19), an archipelago in the S. Pacific, 250 m. SE. of Fiji; Tonga-tabu is the largest; volcanic and fruit-bearing; missionary enterprise (Wesleyan Methodist) has done much to improve the mental, moral, and material condition of the natives, who belong to the fair Polynesian stock, and are a superior race to the other natives of Polynesia, but are diminishing in numbers.
   See FRIENDLY ISLANDS.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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