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(1) Negritic . The principal islands of this archipelago are Tana, Aneitum, Erromango, Mallicolo, and L’Espirito Santo; for the first four we have vocabularies and grammatical sketches, of which Tana and Mallicolo date from Cook’s voyage in 1772-5. (2) Polynesian . In Futuma, Nina, and some parts of the Fate or Sandwich Is., the language is not Papuan but Polynesian, and allied to the Rarotongan and Samoan . See Cook’s “Voyage to the S. Pole,” London, 1777. New Holland , see Australian .