Newfoundland.
American: classed in E. branch of Algonkin. Dialects are Belhuck (extinct), Mikmak, and Millicite.
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].
New Hebrides.
(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].