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‘with the amount and quality of the Polynesian content in the lan- 
guages of Florida and Guadalcanar facing the northern seaway of 
Malanta and in the languages of San Cristoval and Ulawa facing 
Malanta’s southern seaway; to which must be added the wholly 
Polynesian communities still farther to leeward in Moiki and Moava. 
At first glance there seems to be a discrimination between the two 
regions in the two Malanta seaways which exhibit this marked amount 
and highly specific quality of Polynesian linguistic material; but 
when we assign the vocabulary material to its proper place on the 
chart this discrimination vanishes. Of some three score vocables in 
the languages of these two groups which are recognizably Polynesian 
inclusions in various Melanesian tongues we find 49 which appear in 
both seaways, 11 that are restricted to the northern channel, and but 
6 which are found in the southern channel without extending to the 
northern. The group in the northern seaway seems to have its 
center at Belaga, to extend with great frequency to Vaturanga at the 
north of Guadalcanar, with only a slightly less frequency to Bugotu 
and Ngao at the south of Ysabel, and in a markedly lower degree to 
Alite upon the nearest part of the west coast of Malanta. ‘The 
southern group forms the figure of a quadrilateral of fairly equal 
frequency on each face, the determining points being Wango and 
Fagani on San Cristoval; Saa and Bululaha on the southern tip of 
Malanta, regarded as amounting to but a single locus; Ulawa, lying 
to windward of the channel proper. Neglecting the six vocables 
which appear in the Ulawa-Wango complex without identification at 
the north, regarding with particular insistence the established direc- 
tion of Polynesian folk movement, I incline most strongly to regard 
the Belaga group as the center of speech distribution within these 
two areas. Force is added to this view by the fact that in this northern 
seaway we encounter several vocables which next appear in Nuclear 
Polynesia and appear to have come at no point into such contact with 
the peoples of the New Hebridean complex as might result in lending 
speech material. This double locus in the southern Solomons, there- 
fore, appears as a valuable point for the identification of the Samoa 
stream of Proto-Samoan migration which I have already proposed. 
In connection with this double locus in the southern Solomons we 
find an interesting check control station at Alite. So far as we may 
employ a system of examination by comparison of the quality of 
comprehensibility in the Polynesian loan material, Alite falls far 
below Ngela and Belaga. ‘This we should expect to find. The 
character of the migration of the Polynesians, small flotillas of adven- 
turous comrades keeping together for mutual protection, is such as to 
condition the results of their intercourse with Melanesians to small 
islands where their numbers and their military effectiveness would 
secure their safety during the more or less extended terms during 
