missionaries and traders. The natives of the Northern half are almost pure Polynesian, having only comparatively recently come by canoe from Wallis or Uea Islands (N.E. of Fiji) a distance of nearly two thousand miles. They still have tales of their crossing and pieces of the original canoes in which the journey was made, about 200 years ago, are still in existance. After having touched at certain Islands, probably the southern New Hebrides, and being driven off, they touched at Mare and Lifu and were driven off. Eventually they reached north Uvea and as that Island was only sparsely settled by a few families from New Caledonia (its infertility not being attractive to natives) they managed to establish themselves in the Northern portion. The natural stone ridges of the narrow central neck of the Island made an easily held and defended frontier which enabled them to hold on and become established. Sporadic warfare was constantly keeping them on the alert but to the end they managed to keep their footing. The chiefs shortly after arrival had all the canoes broken up to make the people fight more desperately to maintain their footing. Intermarriage during the recent peaceful forty or fifty years of mission and government control has caused the purity of the race to diminish somewhat as the light skinned females are very popular with the darker New Caledonian races of the mainland and Southern Uvea and Mouli Island. The southern part of the Islands shows a somewhat mixed race with New Caledonia preponderence and Mouli Island shows nearly a pure New Caledonia strain. The Island shows no sign anywhere of the peak on which the coral polps must have built and this has probably never appeared above sea level. It is probably a submerged peak of the