New He brides

(70), a group of some 30 volcanic Islands (20 inhabited) in the Western Pacific, lying W. of the Fiji Islands and NE. of New Caledonia; is nominally a po e ion of Britain, and inhabited by cannibals of the Me lanes i an race. Mi ionary enterprise has had some effect in the southern islands; Espiritu Santo (70 m. by 40) is the largest.