Friendly Islands
Britishplural noun
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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
Rarely far from it, the picture hits rock bottom with a number called The Friendly Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Fiji the Seignelay proceeded to Tonga, in the Friendly Islands, where, in the usages of the population and in the insular antiquities, Miss Cumming found much to interest her and her readers.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
F�te in honour of D'Entrecasteaux at the Friendly Islands.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
A large canoe of the Friendly Islands, with an out-rigger.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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