; SQREPACE. ; 
Ir is a hundred years since Cook visited and described 
the New Hebrides; and his account of them has not been 
entirely superseded, even to this day. 
Captains of the Navy and Christian ‘Missionaries have 
given us Sketches of the People, and of their Ways, and of 
their Island Homes. But their narratives have been frag- 
mentary in their intelligence, and many of them fugitive in 
their form. 
The present volume cannot claim to be much more than 
its predecessors. It is a contribution merely to the physical, 
social, and religious history of this interesting and important 
group. 
It has been prepared, mainly, with the desire of giving the 
many friends of the New Hebrides Mission some clear 
