MALLICOLLO, or MANICOLA, one of the largest of the New Hebrides group of islands in the South Pacific, in S. Lat. 16.30, and E. Long. 167.57. It is about 54 miles in length, and from 15 to 21 in breadth, while it rises to a considerable height. A great part of the surface is covered with forests. Mallicollo was discovered by Quiros in 1606, and visited by Cook in 1774. The inhabitants are diminutive, ugly, and in the lowest state of barbarism.
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