See also:

• ELLICE (LAGOON) ISLANDS

ELLICE (See also:

• LAGOON (Fr. lagune, Lat. lacuna, a pool)

LAGOON) ISLANDS  , an See also:

• ARCHIPELAGO

archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, lying between 50 and 11° S. and about 178° E., nearly midway between See also:

• FIJI
• FIJI (Viii)

Fiji and See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

Gilbert . It is under See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• PROTECTION

protection, being annexed in 18g2 . It comprises a large number of See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low coralline islands and atolls, which are disposed in nine clusters extending over a distance of about 400 M. in the direction from N.W. to S.E . Their See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• AREA

area is 14 sq. m. and the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is about 2400 . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups, all yielding coco-nuts, pandanus See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit and yams, are Funafuti or See also:

• ELLICE (LAGOON) ISLANDS

Ellice, Nukulailai or See also:

• MITCHELL
• MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT (1822—1908)
• MITCHELL, MARIA (1818—1889)
• MITCHELL, SILAS WEIR (1830-)
• MITCHELL, SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTONE (1792-1855)

Mitchell, Nurakita or See also:

• SOPHIA (1630-1714)

Sophia, Nukufetau or De Peyster, Nui or See also:

• EGG (O.E. aeg, cf. Ger. Ei, Swed. aegg, and prob. Gr. u,ov, Lat. ovum)
• EGG, AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (1816-1863)

Egg, Nanomana or See also:

• HUDSON
• HUDSON, GEORGE (180o-1871)
• HUDSON, HENRY
• HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719)

Hudson, and Niutao or See also:

• LYNX (Lat. Lynx, Gr. airy, probably connected with X hovewv, to see)

Lynx . Nearly all the natives are Christians, See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

missions having been See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long established in several of the islands . Those of Nui speak the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of the Gilbert islanders, and have a tradition that they came some generations ago from that See also:

• GROUP

group . All the others are of Samoan speech, and their tradition that they came See also:

• THIRTY

thirty generations back from See also:

• SAMOA

Samoa is supported by See also:

• RECENT

recent See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research . They have an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear which they believe was brought from Samoa, and they actually name the valley from which their ancestors started . A missionary visiting the Samoan valleyfound there a tradition of a party who put to See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea never to return, and he also found the See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood of which the See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff was made growing plentifully in the See also:

• DISTRICT

district . Borings and soundings taken at Funafuti in 1897 indicate almost beyond doubt that the whole of this Polynesian region is an area of comparatively recent subsidence . See See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

Geographical See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal, passim; and See also:

• ATOLL (native name atollon in the Maldive Islands)

Atoll of Funafuti: Borings into a See also:

• CORAL

Coral See also:

• REEF (1)

Reef (See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

Report of Coral Reef See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee of Royal Society, See also:

• LONDON

London, 1904) .