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LETTER IL. 
THE NEW HEBRIDES— THEIR DISCOVERY — ANEITYUM — ITS 
CHARACTERISTICS —- INHABITANTS — THE MISSION STA- 
TION AT ANELCAUHAT — RAMBLES ALONG THE SHORE 
AND INLAND — A MARRIAGE — NATIVE SERVICE. 
Anelcauhat, Aneityum, 
May, 1872. 
Tiree men seem to have been concerned in the discovery 
of the New Hebrides. First Quiros, who intheyear 1606 stumbled 
across the most northerly island of the group, whilst sailing in 
search of a great southern continent ; and who, thinking that he 
had found the land which he was looking for, gave it the some- 
what grandiloquent title of Tierra Austral del Espiritu Santo, 
and sailed off without exploring its coasts. 
Next Bougainville, who came in the year 1768; but he did 
nothing more than discover that the continent of Quiros was 
