General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-143- Foisina {small islet on w. side of Ofu. Gente Hermosa Handsome People. Quiros. Swain. La Peregrina. 7-8 mi. in circ.; close lagoon; 15-25 ft. high; was wooded in Wilkes' time (Peale says outer rim of land was covered with large trees), but by 1900, 800 acres or more had been planted in cocoanuts; no anchorage, but passages had been blasted through reef on w. side of island; roads throughout island; inhab.; "taken up" by an American, Eli Jennings, about 25 years before 1886. He lived there with his Samoan wife and died about 10"years ago" (Moss, 1889). His sons continued the copra work. "Pigeons were observed on it" when Wilkes visited there, or before (Findlay). Goat {islet off Pagopago harbor, Tutuila. Handsome People [= Gente Hermosa]. Kordiukoff [= Rose]. La Peregrina[= Gente Hermosa]. Leoné (of La Pérouse) [= Olosenga]. Manomo [= Manono]. Manono Manomo. Platte. {3 mi. circ.; 400 ft. high; on w. end of reef with Upolu; well cultivated and thickly populated. Manua [= Tau]. Manua group {consists of Ofu, Olosenga, and Tau, all high islands.