. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 130 LVDEX 7V THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. Pegue, one of the Htniiit islands, i" 35'' s., 1^14" ^?>' K. 8. PeiM, islet on the west reef of Hnalieine, Society islands. Peka, liigii island of Fiji. 16' 52' 54" S., 177' 26' 06'" Pele, nortlieast from P\ite, New Hebrides; 2 ni. long, 3cx:)ft, liig^i; Polynesian inhabitants. Pelelep, of Dnpcrre}- is l^iiigelap, Caroline islands. Pelelill or F*ililu, of the Pelew islands, extends 3 ni. XK-sw. 6" 58'N., 134'' i
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 130 LVDEX 7V THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. Pegue, one of the Htniiit islands, i" 35'' s., 1^14" ^?>' K. 8. PeiM, islet on the west reef of Hnalieine, Society islands. Peka, liigii island of Fiji. 16' 52' 54" S., 177' 26' 06'" Pele, nortlieast from P\ite, New Hebrides; 2 ni. long, 3cx:)ft, liig^i; Polynesian inhabitants. Pelelep, of Dnpcrre}- is l^iiigelap, Caroline islands. Pelelill or F*ililu, of the Pelew islands, extends 3 ni. XK-sw. 6" 58'N., 134'' i6'i5'"k. Pelew or I^alao, the Arrecifos of V'illalobos, who diseovered them in 1543, extend about 85 m. x-s., while the greatest l)readtli docs not exceed 7 m. A barrier reef with many passages extends the whtde length of the gronp. The popnlation in 1875 was 10,000; less than a centiir}- l)efore it was 40,000. No pestilence, no massacres, sinrply want of energy. Semper Miys: "The iron of the Bkiropean followed too close npon the stone of the savage/' The six principal islands are N'yanr on the sooth, I\delin, Kil 'Malk or Irakong, IJrnhtapi, Korror (seat of government), and Babeltop, with many islets. Pelican, on the Anstralian coast. 13" 53' s., 143' 52' K. Pell, see Lisiansky of the Hawaiian gronp, Peme, the northeast islet of the Hermit gronp. i'' 29' S., 145'' 06' Penantipodc, a name sometimes given to Antipodes island, New Zealand. Pender, a circular islet of the Iviigineer gronp, I^onisiade archipelago. Penrhyn, see Tongareva. Pentecost, see A rag of the New Hebrides. Percy, hwv and wooded, 2 m. long, in Cloudy bay, on southeast coast of New Guinea. Percgriua (La), see (jcnte Hcrniosa. 15. Peroat, see Pern of the Gilbert islands. Perry, a high islrnid of the Hudson gronp, P'^tji. 17'' 41' 30" S., 177" 05' i<:.0 Peru, Sunday-, Maria, Kliza, l^eroat or Francis, was discovered by Captain Clerk of the ship/r;//// Palmer in 1827; 11 m. long, 6-
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