Tristan da Cunha, the largest of three small islands lying out in the South Atlantic, about 1300 m. SW. of St. Helena; 20 m. in circumference; taken possession of by the British in 1817, and utilised as a military and naval station during Napoleon's captivity on St. Helena; now occupied by a handful of people, who lead a simple, communistic life.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Trismegistus * Tristram, Sir