Marquesas
Noun
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Marquesas pl (plural only)
the Marquesas Islands
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A collection of Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific an account of the 1888 cruise which Stevenson and Fanny undertook on the Casco from the Hawaiian Islands to the Marquesas and Tuamotu islands.
The first islands of French Polynesia to be settled were the Marquesas Islands in about 200 BC.
Probst stated, "Dramatically, I just felt like Marquesas never got any momentum, and by the time you got to the final two with Neleh and Vecepia — I'm sleeping."
The Marquesas islanders called it Na-pai-ka; the Māori constellation Pipiri may correspond to modern Aries as well.sfn In indigenous Peruvian astronomy, a constellation with most of the same stars as Aries existed.
Starting in Marquesas, if the tribe could not reach a unanimous decision as to who should be voted off within an allotted time, contestants who did not have immunity would pull different colored rocks from a sack.
When the slave raiders were forced to repatriate the people they had kidnapped, carriers of smallpox disembarked together with a few survivors on each of the islands. citation This created devastating epidemics from Easter Island to the Marquesas islands.