MEMOIRS 
OF THE 
AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
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On the Language and Inhabitants of Lord North’s Island in the 
Indian Archipelago; with a Vocabulary. 
BY JOHN PICKERING, 
PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY, 
Tue immediate subject of the present communication is a brief 
account of the language and inhabitants of a very small island in 
the Indian Archipelago, commonly known to navigators by the 
name of Lord North’s Island, but sometimes called Nevil’s Island, 
and Johnston’s Island, the native name, however, being T6bi, or, 
as we should pronounce it in English, Tébee. It lies southwest- 
erly from the well-known group called the Pelew Islands, and a 
little more than half way from that group towards the island of 
Gilolo, or Gilolo Passage, being, according to the best English 
authorities, in latitude 3° 22’ N. and longitude 131° 20’ E.,* but, 
* Horsburgh’s “ India Directory,” p. 571, 5th edit. London, 1841. 
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