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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.