316 APPENDIX. 



C. Dalrymple's, so called, New Guinea Vocabulary, col- 

 lected by Schouten and Le Maire, given also by De 

 Brosses. 



*2. For Vanikoro — Gaimard's Vocabulary in three dia- 

 lects, the Vanikoro, the Tanema, and the Taneanou — 

 Voyage de PAstrolabe, Philologie, ii. 164. 



3. Mallicollo — Cook^s Vocabulary. 



4. Tanna — Ditto. Also a few words marked G. Bennet, 

 in Marsden's Miscellaneous Works. 



5. Erromango — a few words by Bennet, in Marsden. 



6. Annatom— Ditto. 



7. New Caledonia — A short Vocabulary in Cook. A 

 longer one in Dentrecasteau xand La Billardiere. 



All these languages, although mutually unintelligible, 

 exhibit words common to one another, common to them- 

 selves and the New Guinea, and common to themselves 

 and the Malay. See Transactions of the Philological 

 Society, vol. i. no. 4. 



IV. The Blacks of Australia are generally separated by 

 strong lines of demarcation from the Blacks of New Guinea, 

 and from the Malays. Even on the philological side of 

 the question, Marsden has written as follows — " We have 

 rarely met with any negrito language in which many 

 corrupt Polynesian words might not be detected. In 

 those of New Holland or Australia, such a mixture is not 

 found. Among them no foreign terms that connect them 

 with the languages even of other papua or negrito countries 

 can be discovered ; with regard to the physical qualities 

 of the natives it is nearly superfluous to state, that they are 

 negritos of the more decided class." —p. 71. 



In respect to this statement, I am not aware that any 

 recent philologist has gone over the data as we now have 



