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wire ui me most interesting islands south of the equator is Quiros Island, known to the Spaniards as *Tsla de la Gente Hermosa.’*(Island of Handsome People), and to the natives as -Olosiga.” It is there that the American patriarch. Eli Jennings, resides, who is the venerable father-in-law of Capt. Kanzau. Olosiga Island was discovered by the Spanish navigator Quiros, in 160(, and is named after him 011 many of the maps now in use. When Eli Jennings first visited the! island, mure than thirty years ago. he found1 two skeletons, a male and female, bleaching in the anti. They were reclining under a palm tree, and are supposed to have been the remains of an old couple who starved todeuth. It is a tradition that all the natives were stolen from the island by Peruvian slavers, and that the couple whose skeletons were found were too old to be carried off. Quiros. accordiug to the chronicles, found a remarkably tall and very handsome race of people 011 Olesiga. and for this reason called it the Island of Handsome People. There are large slabs resembling tombstones 011 the island, with peculiar inscriptions, but the nature of the inscriptions is not known. Olosi-ga is a very small island about 200 miles north-northeast of Samoa, and contains at present only patriarch Jennings, his family, and a few natives imported from other islands. All the original inhabitants either perished or word carried into slavery.-I Noma arc from Far Alaska.
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Daily Globe
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Sun, Feb 24, 1878
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