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Tonga Islands

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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n archipelago in the S. Pacific, 250 m. SE. of Fiji; Tonga-tabu is the largest; volcanic and fruit-bearing; missionary enterprise (Wesleyan Methodist) has done much to improve the mental, moral, and material condition of the natives, who belong to the fair Polynesian stock, and are a superior race to the other natives of Polynesia, but are diminishing in numbers. See Friendly Islands .

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tonga Islands'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​t/tonga-islands.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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