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	History of Niue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		European involvement in Niue began in 1774 with Captain James Cook's sighting (landing was refused) of what he named "Savage Island".
		natives are keen traders, and though uncouth in manners when compared with their nearest neighbours, the Tongans and Samoans, are friendly to Europeans.
		Their hostility to Captain Cook in 1774, which earned from him the name of Savage for the island, was due to their fear of foreign disease, a fear that has since been justified.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/niue.html (503 words)

	Dictionary.com/taboo
		When any thing is forbidden to be eat, or made use of, they say, that it is taboo.
		” Cook was in the Friendly Islands (now Tonga) at the time, so even though similar words occur in other Polynesian languages, the form taboo from Tongan tabu is the one we have borrowed.
		Cook, besides borrowing the word into English, also made it into a noun referring to the prohibition itself and a verb meaning “to make someone or something taboo.” From its origins in Polynesia the word taboo has traveled as widely as Cook himself and is now used throughout the English-speaking world.
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=taboo (364 words)

	Tongans - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
		Tongans - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
		Famous All Blacks, creative artists, hip-hop and opera singers – the Tongan community has had a major impact in New Zealand since they began to arrive in numbers in the 1960s.
		'Tongans', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 11-Jul-2005
	www.teara.govt.nz /NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/Tongans/en (60 words)

	The Proa FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It has a long ama mounted on the leeward side and was tried in a transatlantic race.
		Just to clear up a few misconceptions; Polynesians in general and Tahitians, Tongans, Samoans and Fijians never used the proa configuration.
		Their outrigger canoes have distinct bows and sterns (and very nice ones too with plumb or clipper bows and long overhanging sterns).
	www.boat-links.com /proafaq.html (3524 words)

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