Excerpt from South Sea Languages, Vol. 2: A Series of Studies on the Languages of the New Hebrides and Other South Sea Islands
With a view to eventually carrying out the programme set forth in the Preface to the First Volume, I have asked my missionary brethren to draw up for this series each a grammar and vocabulary of the language of the people amongst whom he labours, and as to which he is the highest European authority They have cordially responded, and the present volume contains those received. The matter here presented is entirely new, though on languages of a family that has long excited the keenest interest, and now, perhaps, a keener interest than ever, in the scientific world. The Futunese belongs to the Maori-Hawaiian, the others to the Papuan, branch of the Oceanic family. The short vocabulary appended to the Maloese grammar had been printed before the longer one came to hand, and while it was still uncertain whether it would arrive in time.
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