New Hebrides, a group of some 30 volcanic Islands (20 inhabited) in the Western Pacific, lying W. of the Fiji Islands and NE. of New Caledonia; is nominally a possession of Britain, and inhabited by cannibals of the Melanesian race. Missionary enterprise has had some effect in the southern islands; Espiritu Santo (70 m. by 40) is the largest.
Population (circa 1900) given as 70,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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