or Erramongo, one of the New Hebrides islands, is about 24 or 25 leagues in circuit; the middle of it lies in E. Long. 169° 19', S. Lat. 18° 54'. The inhabitants are of the middle size, and have a good shape and tolerable features. Their colour is very dark; and they paint their faces, some with black, and others with red pigment; their hair is curly and crisp, and somewhat woolly. Few women were seen, and those very ugly: they wore a petticoat made of the leaves of some plant. The men were quite naked, excepting a belt tied about the waist, and a piece of cloth, or a leaf, used for a wrapper. No canoes were seen in any part of the island. They live in houses covered with thatch; and their plantations are laid out by line, and fenced round. An unlucky scuffle between the British sailors and these people, in which four of the latter were desperately wounded, prevented Captain Cook from being able to give any particular information concerning the produce, &c., of this island.

IRITIS, a large river of Asia, in Siberia, which rises among the hills of the country of the Kalmucks, and, running north-east, falls into the Oby near Tobolsk. It abounds with fish, particularly sturgeon, and delicate salmon.