What is "tongan"

Usage examples of "tongan".

This time it was some Aitutakians who had been carried for 1,000 miles to Niuafou, north-west of the main Tongan islands.

Those tribes having for their customs the practice of compound major mutilations are the Fiji Islanders, Sandwich Islanders, Tahitians, Tongans, Samoans, Javanese, Sumatrans, natives of Malagasy, Hottentots, Damaras, Bechuanas, Kaffirs, the Congo people, the Coast Negroes, Inland Negroes, Dahomeans, Ashantees, Fulahs, Abyssinians, Arabs, and Dakotas.

He refrained from mapping both Fiji and Samoa, of which the nautically-minded Tongans had told him, and made his way to new waters in the North Pacific.

Rotumans scattered as far east as Samoa and as far west as Tikopia, and was told of a Tongan expedition which had set out for Rotuma and never been heard of since.

When her mission on Tahiti had been accomplished and she was westward bound, among the islands of the Tongan Group, Fletcher Christian, second-in-command of the vessel, raised the men in revolt against Captain William Bligh, whose conduct he considered cruel and insupportable.

She's been decrypting more aliens out of signals from this Tongan Meta West Link satellite called Cappy Jane.

She's been decrypting more aliens out of signals from this Tongan Meta West Link satellite called Cappy Jane.

Our main course will be Tongan lobster in a coconut cream sauce over steamed taro root.

The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established.

The first course of the meal was a green melon with tiny orange balls on it which were, the King informed them, the fruiting body of a special kind of Tongan seaweed.

Because the Tongan Archipelago itself was geographically close-knit and included several large islands with unfragmented terrain, each island became unified under a single chief.