Crossword-Solution: MAIANA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Maiana once paid him tribute; he once fell upon and seized Nonuti: first steps to the empire of the archipelago.

And the people of Apiang thought much of Te Matân Bob, as much as the inhabitants of the whole group--from Arorai in the south to Makin in the north--do to this day of quiet, spectacled Bob Corrie, of wild Maiana, who can twist them round his little finger without an angry word.

The island, so Niâbon told me, had not been inhabited for a great number of years, though it was occasionally visited by natives for the purpose of collecting the ripe coco-nuts, and turning them into oil, and sometimes the white traders, living on Apaian, would stop there when they were on their way to Tarawa and Maiana Lagoons.

And it was not the only such affair in which he had been concerned--not on Tarawa alone, but on the neighbouring lagoon of Maiana.

Sixty miles due south of us was Maiana Lagoon--a huge square-shaped atoll, into which we might run, and have the boat plundered by the natives to a certainty.