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See also:ELLICE (See also:LAGOON) ISLANDS , an See also:archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, lying between 50 and 11° S. and about 178° E., nearly midway between See also: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 See also:protection, being annexed in 18g2. It comprises a large number of See also: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 See also:area is 14 sq. m. and the See also:population is about 2400. The See also:chief See also:groups, all yielding coco-nuts, pandanus See also:fruit and yams, are Funafuti or Ellice, Nukulailai or See also:Mitchell, Nurakita or See also:Sophia, Nukufetau or De Peyster, Nui or See also:Egg, Nanomana or See also:Hudson, and Niutao or See also:Lynx. Nearly all the natives are Christians, See also:Protestant See also:missions having been See also:long established in several of the islands. Those of Nui speak the See also:language of the Gilbert islanders, and have a tradition that they came some generations ago from that See also:group. All the others are of Samoan speech, and their tradition that they came See also:thirty generations back from See also:Samoa is supported by See also:recent See also:research. They have an See also:ancient See also: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 never to return, and he also found the See also:wood of which the See also:staff was made growing plentifully in the See also: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 See also:Journal, passim; and See also:Atoll of Funafuti: Borings into a See also:Coral See also:Reef (See also:Report of Coral Reef See also:Committee of Royal Society, See also:London, 1904).
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