Manua

South to the West and North-West — and that 3 days’ sail to the North-East is an Island called Manua, that is Bird Island, and that it lies 4 days’ sail from Ulietea, which is one day less than from Ulietea to Ohetiroa.

Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world 1767

From Tupia our navigators learned, that there were various islands lying at different distances and in different directions from Oheteroa, between the south and the north-west; and that to the north-east there was an island called Manua, Bird Island.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

From Tupia our navigators learned, that there were various islands lying at different distances and in different directions from Oheteroa, between the south and the north-west; and that to the north-east there was an island called Manua, Bird Island.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

Oheteroa, between the south and the north-west; and that to the north-east there was an island called Manua, Bird Island.

Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods Andrew Kippis 1760

Manua, that is Bird Island, and that it lies 4 days 'sail from Ulietea, which is one day less than from Ulietea to Ohetiroa.

Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753

But with him he brought back Kumi, the son of Tui Manua, which latter's rank was highest in all Polynesia, and barely second to that of the demigods and gods.

SHIN-BONES 2010

There were the bones of Kumi, the near demigod, son of Tui Manua of Samoa, who, in the long before, married into my line and heaven-boosted my genealogy.

SHIN-BONES 2010

He was full-blooded native, descended out of the oldest and highest chief-stock that traced back to Manua which was the primeval sea home of the race.

THE PRINCESS 2010

Next, he paid his respects to Tui Manua, of Eastern Samoa, and opened an intrigue for a share of the trade monopoly of that dying king's three islands.

THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN 2010

Grief stops along the way to mind his various business enterprises: to Tui Manua, Eastern Samoa, to the Gilberts, Ontong-Java Atoll, Ysabel, Malaita — "And all along this devious way he made a man of Aloysius Pankburn."

“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008