2 LANGUAGES USED TO THE EAST OF NEW GUINEA. 
“The Australian Irrigationist,” No. 5. Melbourne, 1884. 
From the Editor. 
‘“‘Russkago Geographicheskago Obshtchestva.”” Transactions, 
Vol. XX., Part 3. St. Petersburg, 1884. From the Imperial 
Geographical Society. 
The following Paper was read :— 
NOTES ON THE PHILOLOGY OF THE 
ISLANDS ADJACENT TO THE SOUTH 
EASTERN EXTREMITY OF NEW 
GUINEA, 
BY 
WILLIAM E. ARMIT, F.L.S. 
Durine my recent exploring trip to the Louisiade Archipelago 
and the Islands adjacent to New Guinea, discovered by Captain, 
now Admiral, Moresby in 1870-2, my attention was directed to 
the different languages spoken by the inhabitants of the groups 
and single islands I visited, with a view to tracing their affinity 
to each other and to the languages spoken in New Guinea on 
the one hand, and in the Islands of the Western Pacific on the 
other. 
I thought that, perhaps, a knowledge of these languages, or 
dialects, would prove useful in determining whether the present 
inhabitants were truly indigenous, or, as I was inclined to 
believe, an admixture of foreign blood had taken place at some 
time more or less remote by immigration from the Kast or West. 
I therefore obtained vocabularies of every tribal language which 
came under my observation, but I deeply regret that these were 
lost at Moresby Island during my illness. I have now only a 
few words of the Moresby Island, Teste Island, and Bute Island 
