New Guinea

Negritic of the Indian Archipelago. Native Christian teachers landed there in 1871.     W. G.   ⁂ I believe that Mr. Wallace is right in his distinction between Negritos and Papuans, and that the name of Negrito, given by the Spaniards to the black population of the Philippines, should not be applied to the inhabitants of New Guinea.     P. J. V.   See Papuan .