Friendly Islands
Britishplural noun
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Rarely far from it, the picture hits rock bottom with a number called The Friendly Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Cook called there in 1773, named them the Friendly Islands, and presented the Tongans with a tortoise, which is still alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr Forster, who accompanied Captain Cook on the voyage round the world from 1772 to 1775, observed fox-bats at the Friendly Islands, where they were seen in large groups of hundreds.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
They gave up the sailors, who had all been very well treated, made a present of pigs and bananas; and on the 24th of May the Astrolabe took her final departure from the Friendly Islands.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
The principal dialects are,—that spoken in the Sandwich Islands, or the Hawaiian; that of the Marquesas; that of New Zealand; the Tongatabuan, spoken by the inhabitants of the Friendly Islands, and the Tahaitian.
From A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 by Otto von Kotzebue
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