Crossword-Solution: TIKOPIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

SANTA-CRUZ GROUP.—_Vanikoro_ (Figure 1, Plate I.) offers a striking example of a barrier-reef: it was first described by the Chevalier Dillon, in his voyage, and was surveyed in the “Astrolabe”; coloured pale blue.—_Tikopia_ and _Fataka_ Islands appear, from the descriptions of Dillon and D’Urville, to have no reefs; _Anouda_ is a low, flat island, surrounded by cliffs (“‘Astrolabe’ Hydrog.” and Krusenstern, “Mem.” volume ii., page 432); these are uncoloured.

The national complexion here was of a lighter yellow, the costume a tattooed chest, the language akin to Maori; and it was the same at Tikopia, where four chiefs, one principal one immensely fat, received their visitors seated on a mat in the centre of a wide circle formed by natives, the innermost seated, the others looking over them.

This was hailed as a possible opening to those two curious isles, Oanuta and Tikopia, in so far as the 'Southern Cross' work was concerned.

However, the thing is done now, and in any case he would never have been able to dodge the School attendance officer." CHAPTER VIII HIS FIRST VISIT TO CHALLIS COURT I "Shall you be able to help me in collating your notes of the Tikopia observations to-day, sir?" Lewes asked next morning.

Elsewhere in the Carolines and in Tikopia there are non-exogamous social groups, sacred animals greatly revered, and in some places belief in descent from an animal-god.