What is "tonga"

Usage examples of "tonga".

Tongas cut into her nerves, the stuffy gharry made her head ache, and the springless phaetons which abound in the East she avoided as the plague.

Savaii as the vaguely remembered traditional homeland of the Eastern Polynesians, Hawaiians, and New Zealand Maoris, one might expect to find that traditional memories of Tonga, as well as Samoa, persisted in the voyaging traditions of those peoples.

Samoa and Tonga persisted in Eastern Polynesian, Hawaiian, and New Zealand voyaging traditions, it is not surprising that traces of a previous knowledge of Fiji did also.

It was quite possible that Pereira and his companions had been murdered, though as we found the Tongas very quiet folk if well treated and given the usual complimentary presents for wayleaves, this did not seem probable.

The oldest land animals of any kind are tortoisesCaptain Cook gave one to the king of Tonga that supposedly lived one hundred eighty-eight yearsand some mollusks, like the ocean quahog, a thick-shelled clam, can last a couple of hundred years.

Australia and New Zealand: Abor Miri, Aneityum, Annamese, Balochi, Bentuni, Binandere, Cheremiss, Chungchia, Georgian, Houailou, Javanese, Kado, Kaili, Kopu, Kusaie, Lepcha, Lifu, Manchu, Manipuri, Manus Island, Marquesas, Mentawei, Mongolian, Mordoff, Mwala, Na-Hsi, Nicobarese, Niue, Ossete, Ostiak, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Perm, Petats, Samoan, Tho, Tibetan, Tonga, Vogul.

Antis Ecundor Newand Dangor Esthonia Dominica Bulgaria Reunion Italy Newfoundland Germany Luxemberg Angola Sarawak Tasmania Brazil Obock Oldenburg Kiauchau Tonga Obock Madagascar Egypt Afghanistan Trinidad Monaco Inhambane Denmark Nyassa Iceland Gabon Hayti Tunis The ink had not dried before The Shadow had completed the rapid listing.

On the narrow gauge rail from Joginder Nagar and on to Amritsar or doubling back to Simla and getting out in a tonga or the Toy Train to Kalka and on to Delhi.

Word has come that Memsahib Sharpe passed down the Mall ten minutes ago in a tonga.

The Forum, like the South Pacific Commission, has grown with the list of independent nations, and in 1987, its members were the Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, the Solomons, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Federated States of Micronesia, Vanuatu and Western Samoa, as well as Australia and New Zealand.

The problem is, how did Lapita ware travel to Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, where archaeologists have shown it to have arrived by 1500 B.

From Fiji it became known in Samoa and Tonga, and by the eighteenth century it had become known, but was still rare, in the Tahiti-Tuamotu sailing area.

On this journey he discussed with the Wesleyans in Tonga a possible arrangement whereby Samoa be considered L.

German settlers were developing plantations in Fiji and Samoa, and a handful of traders and wouldbe planters had become established in Tonga as well.

So for the next two hours Yoke and Cobb told Babs and Randy the whole story of what had happened in Tonga.