4 LANGUAGES USED TO THE EAST OF NEW GUINEA, 
men, and know it. This perhaps has exerted a tendency to keep 
them isolated from the surrounding tribes, with whom, prior to 
the advent of missionaries, they were coustantly at war. 
Normanby, Lydia, and Ferguson Islands, owe their distinct 
dialectic forms to their distance from the mainland. But 
although the language of the Dinner Island or Samarang Group 
is spoken on so many separate islands, it must be borne in mind 
that the people of these are distinct tribes, with the exception 
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of those living on Bentley and Kitai Islands, who are offshoots of — 
the Teste or Waré tribe. 
Now going to the Engineer Group, which is inhabited by 
peuple bearing a most unenviable notoriety as cannibals, we find 
a language made up partly of Teste, Wood-lark, and some other 
unknown dialect, which may perhaps have been spoken by the 
original inhabitants of the group. 
That we can trace direct immigration here, is, I think, in- 
dubitable, especially when we add the fact that these people are 
the only ones who visit the Wood-lark Islands from which, by 
the way, the Papaw (C. papaya) was first introduced among 
these Islands and into New Guinea. 
Farther east again, at Bute Island—one of the Redlich Group 
—a language is used which differs entirely from any of those in 
use among the Islands we have just considered, and I am in- 
clined to believe that further knowledge on this subject will 
prove that it originally came from the west. Also, a marked 
difference exists in these people not practising anthropophagy 
as we know is the case among the tribes inhabiting the Islands 
nearer to New Guinea. 
Many words are used on different Islands belonging to the | 
dialect of some other place, but these have invariably been intro- 
duced by trading canoes and do not form part of the language 
in daily use. 
For instance, if I wanted a drink of water on Moresby Island, — 
and asked for “ waila,” its Teste Island equivalent, it would be 
