Locality.—Fifty minutes north of line, to the west (or north-west) of New Guinea.
Natives.—Copper-coloured, with long black hair.—Carteret from Prichard.
The natives of Free-will Island require further description. It is nearly certain that they are Amphinesian—but whether Protonesian or Micronesian is uncertain. Laying aside, for the present, Madagascar, and the Fiji Islands, we shall find that the more important questions connected with the ethnology of Polynesia are as follows—
1. The affinities with Protonesia.
2. The differences between Polynesia Proper and Micronesia.
3. The extent to which one of these last-named divisions is more Protonesian than the other.
4. The details of the dispersion within the limits of a single division; Micronesia or Polynesia, as the case may be.
5. The general dispersion and distribution.
6. The inferences arising from the existence of the darker coloured, and more Negrito-like population.
7. The date of the Polynesian dispersion.