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and MaUlMo (sometimes spelt Malkolo) of the Xew Hebrides, 

 the Marl and Lifu of the Loyalty Islands, the Duauru dialect 

 of New Caledonia, the Banro and Gitadckanor, or Gem, of the 

 Solomon Group. Part II. is chiefly derived from the late 

 Bishop Patteson's vocabularies, and contains more or less in- 

 formation on the languages of Fate, Api, Pama, Ambri/m, and 

 J'unmarama, (north end of Whitsunday Island), in the Xew 

 Hebrides, the Lifu and Uea (now written Ucea) of the Loyalty 

 Islands, the Yehen, or Yengen, of XCAV Caledonia, the Bauro, 

 Mi.'m, Ma-siki, Anudha, Mahaga, and Eddystone Islands of the 

 Solomon Archipelago. 



As regards Fiji, Mr. Hale published a grammar and dic- 

 tionary in his great work already mentioned. There is also 

 a, very good grammar and dictionary by the late Eev. D. 

 Hazelwood (second edition edited by the Eev. J. Calvert, 

 without date). Both these works deal almost exclusively with 

 the Bau dialect. As I have already stated, the Bau has been 

 adopted by the missionaries, and into this portions of the 

 Scriptures have been translated. 



I have in my possession an admirably got-up Fijian Catholic 

 Prayer-book, Ai Vola ni Loin Katollhi, printed in Sydney in 

 1864, which is a very complete book of devotion. 



There is a useful little grammar of the language of Mota, 

 one of the Banks Islands (London, 1877); and it should be 

 noticed in Dr. R G. Latham's ' Elements of Comparative Phil- 

 ology' (London, 1862), that the author devotes three or four 

 pages each to the Sawaiori and Tarapon languages, while he 

 gives twenty pages (329-349) to those of the Papuan or Me- 

 lanesian peoples. 



All that is known of the Admiralty islanders is, I believe, 

 confined to the paper of Mr. H. X. Moseley, F.R.S., published 

 in the 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute' for May, 

 1877. In the eighth volume of the German 'Journal of Eth- 

 nology' (1876), Captain H. Strauch gives us a comparative 

 summary of seven languages belonging to New Guinea, New 

 Hanover, Net*: Ireland, Nev: Britain, and the Solomon Islands. 



