Crossword-Solution: MENDANA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

What did these jungle savages of the dark heart of Guadalcanal know of helmets? Had Mendana’s men-at-arms worn helmets and penetrated here centuries before? And if not, then whence had the bush-folk caught the motive? Advancing over the litter of gods and bones, Balatta whimpering at his heels, Bassett entered the shadow of the Red One and passed on under its gigantic overhang until he touched it with his finger-tips.

Another head--for Bashti was a confirmed head- collector--went back two centuries before La Perouse to Alvaro de Mendana, the Spaniard.

The islands of Chatham, Auckland, Macquarie, Kermadec, Makin, Maraki, are also belonging to the English.” “Very good, and New Caledonia, the Sandwich Islands, the Mendana, the Pomotou?” “They are islands under the Protectorate of Great Britain.” “What!” cried Paganel, “under the Protectorate of Great Britain.

Mary Mendana, wife of the Portuguese Consul, remembered her with a five-dollar box of candy and a mandarin coat that would have fetched three-quarters of a hundred dollars at a fire sale.

MENDANA or MARQUESAS Group.—These islands are entirely without reefs, as may be seen in Krusenstern’s Atlas, making a remarkable contrast with the adjacent group of the Society Islands.