But there are many apparently non-Melanesian words in Mekeo, Kuni and Pokau, which are different in each language, and cannot be traced to the neighbouring Papuan. The inference is that such words may be remnants of other Papuan tongues spoken in the St. Joseph and Aroa Basins, which have been absorbed by the immigrant Melanesian speech.
Only three Melanesian words in the list appear to have been adopted by the Papuans. These are: Tauata _nau_ (_pe_), earthen dish, which is Kuni, Motu, Pokau, &c., _nau_; Fuyuge asi boat, Pokau and Motu asi; and Fuyuge _bara_, paddle, the Motu, Kabadi _bara_, Mekeo _fanga_, oar. The Fuyuge _kokole_ fowl is also probably the Mekeo _kokolo_.
[1] The photographs of skulls, articles of dress and ornament, implements and weapons were made in London after my return.
[2] The Geographical Society's map used by me is somewhat confusing as regards the upper reaches of the St. Joseph or Angabunga river and the rivers flowing into and forming it. The Fathers' map makes the St. Joseph river commence under that name at the confluence, at a point a little to the west of 8° 30' S. Lat. and 147° E. Long., of the river Alabula (called in one of its upper parts Loloipa), flowing from the north, and the river Aduala, flowing from Mt. Albert Edward in the north-east; and this arrangement, which is practically in accord with a map appended to the British New Guinea _Annual Report_ for June, 1900, is, I think, probably the most suitable and correct one. The Aduala is the river the upper part of which is in the Geographical Society's map called Angabunga. The Fathers' map shows the river Kea flowing into the Aduala at a distance of about two miles above the confluence of the latter with the Alabula; but, according to the Report map, this distance is about 12 miles.
[3] Note the change from the Mafulu (Papuan) pronunciation _Mambule_ to the Kuni (Melanesian) pronunciation _Mafulu_ and the similar change from the Mafulu _Ambo_ to the Kuni _Ajoa_.
[4] See Dr. Seligmann's "Hunterian Lecture" in the _Lancet_ for February 17, 1906, p. 427; Seligmann and Strong in the _Geographical Journal_ for March, 1906, pp. 233 and 236; also Dr. Seligmann's "Classification of the Natives of British New Guinea" in the _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute_ for December, 1909, p. 329.