Index

• A'ana, an early war of, 50.
• Adultery, punishment of, 94.
• Aitu, or god story of, 230.
• Alamea, injury due to, 168.
• Albinos, 63
• Amusements, 132.
• Anchors of the spirits 70
• Annoyances, strange, 261
• Apia, 31.
• Apolima, 33.
• Apteryx, the, 191.
• Aquatic sports, 139.
• Arms, 244.
• Assassins, 110
• Atonga, 273.
• Attendants on chiefs, 74

• Bachelors' houses, 110.
• Banishment, mode of, 7, 91.
• Basket, a peculiar, 243
• Heard, mode of dressing 119
• Bell-ringing, Stranger 264.
• Betrothals, 171.
• Birth-customs, 175.
• Boat-song, a, 73.
• Bonito, 203.
• Boundaries, 83.
• Breadfruit, 55.
• Burials, 178.
• Burning the body, 116.

• Canoe-building, 145, 149.
• Canoe-races, 140.
• Canoe-song, a, 276.
• Canoe-voyages, early, 271.
• Canoes, kinds of, 152.
• Cats, 187.
• Cave, visit to romantic, 48.
• Caverns, 48.
• Census in 1845, 58.
• Chanting, 136.
• Chiefs, ranks of, 65; language of, 68; death of, 75, 180; installation of, 79; Attendants of, 122; sacredness of, 127; burial of, 179, 183.
• Children, mode of rearing, 177; fondness for, 178; training of, 178.
• Cicadae, chorus of, 207.
• Cinet-plaiting, 145.
• Classes of the people, 65.
• Climate, 35.
• Climbing trees, mode of, 63.
• Cloth-making, 143.
• Cocaine, use of, 286.
• Cocoanut-palms, 53.
• Combats, single, 236.
• Complexion of the people, 58.
• Conch-shell, 135, 222.
• Cooking, 122; on voyages, 285.
• Councils 84.
• Counting a game, 138.
• Courttship, 171
• Crabs land 189.
• Crickcket love of, 130.
• Cromlech a, 222.
• Cuckoo, the, 104.
• Cupbearers, 81.
• Cures, unlikely, 166.
• Curse a sister's, 180.
• Curtains, 109.
• Customs, vexatious, 126.
• Cutting, mode of, 167.
• Cyclones, 38.

• Dances, night, 132; day, 134.
• Dead, the, spirits of, 215; state of, 217.
• Death, customs at, 180
• Diet, 121.
• Diseases, 165.
• Districts, 83.
• Diving, 65, 139.
• Divinities, 210.
• Doctors, 165.
• Dogs, 187.
• Doves, 113, 191.
• Dress, 113.
• Drought, 37.
• Drums, 135.
• Dwellings, 105.
• Dyes, 145.

• Earth, origin of the, 212; tradition of, 238.
• Earthquakes, 41, 238.
• Easter Island Inscriptions, 288.
• Eating, mode of, 121.
• Elephantiasis, 169.
• Embalming, 184.
• Employments, list of, 142.
• Etiquette, 124.
• Evil spirits, agency of, 259.
• Execution, mode of, 101.

• Families, leading, 77.
• Family names, 75.
• Feasts, 137, 235.
• Feathers as ornaments, 117.
• Ferns, tree, 53.
• Fighting, mode of, 247.
• Fights, 137.
• Fines, 96.
• Fire, origin of, 238.
• Fish, sacred, 82; poisonous, punishment by, 95.
• Fishing, mode of, 201.
• Flutes, 131.
• Flying foxes, 188.
• Fono. the, 84.
• Forests, 52.
• Furniture. 112.

• Games, 138.
• Gods, 211, 229.
• Government, 76.
• Guest-houses, 129.

• Hair, mode of dressing, 118.
• Haunts of the spirits, 228.
• Head-dresses, 117.
• Herons, 193.
• House-building, 153, 156.
• Houses, 105.

• Ifonga, the, 96.
• Interments, 178.

• Jesters, 123.
• Journeys, 128.

• Karika, 282.
• King, election of, 80.
• Kingfishers, 193.
• Knife, use of, in disease, 166.

• Lagoons, 44.
• Language of chiefs. 68.
• Le Tamafainga, his character, 77; campaign of, 250; death of, 252.
• Leeches, 208.

• Mafui'e, tradition of, 238.
• Malae, the, 84.
• Malie, story of, 72.
• Malietoa, 78.
• Malietoa-fainga, tradition of, 240.
• Mangrove-trees, 32.
• Manono, 32; influence of, 79; the war of, with A'ana, 250.
• Manu'a, 21, 25.
• Manufactures, 141.
• Manu Mea, the, 186, 195, 197.
• Marriages, 171.
• Mat-making, 143.
• Meals, 121.
• Meetings, 84.
• Messenger of Peace, the, arrival of, 258.
• Meteorology, 36.
• Moso, a god, 223.
• Mullet, 204.
• Musical instruments, 135.
• Mutilation, 117.
• Mythology, 210.

• Names of islands, 25.
• Naval warfare, 245.
• Necklaces, 115.page 296
• Net-making, 142.
• Nightingale, the, 192.
• Nu'u Lopa, 33.

• Offence, canses of, 124.
• Offerings to gods, 234.
• Ornaments, 115.
• Owls, 194.

• Pangopango, 27.
• Parliaments, 84.
• Parroquets, 193.
• Parrots, 193.
• Pigeons, 113, 190.
• Pigs, 187.
• Pipes, 135.
• Plaiting cinet, 88.
• Plovers, 104.
• Poisoning, self, 95,
• Polygamy, 175.
• Population, decrease of, 56; census of, 58; classes of, 55.
• Post-mortem examinations, 167.
• Priesthood, classes of the, 220.
• Priests, 70.
• Property, exchange of, 82.
• Prophecies, remarkable, 291.
• Pulling, game of, 136.
• Punishments, 91.

• Quarrel, story of a fatal, 98.

• Rain, 37.
• Rarotonga, visit to, 72.
• Rats, 188.
• Ray, the, 206.
• Recorders, native, 290.
• Red bird, the, 186, 195, 197.
• Reefs, 44.
• Remedies for sickness, 164.
• Ring-barking, 54.
• Roofs, 105.
• Royal progress, 81.
• Rubbing, 165.

• Samoa, description of, 21; discoverers, 21; first contart with Europeans, 22; names of, 25; appearance, 26, 31; soil, 32, 53; vol-canoes, 34, 43; forests, 34, 53; climate, 35; winds, 37; seasons, 37; rain, 37; storms, 38: waterspouts, 41; earthquakes, 41; reefs and lagoons, 44; harbours, 47; caverns, 48; wars, 50; trees, 52; ferns, 53; crops, 54; decrease of population, 56; appearance of people, 58; habits of people, 63; description of chiefs, 65; priests, 70; classes of people, 70; slavery, 75; government, 76; kings, 76; districts, 83; councils or parliaments, 84; malaes, 84; punishments, 91; banishment, 91; fines, 96; conflict averted, 98; mode of execution, 101; dwellings, 105; assassins, 110; furniture, 112; pets, 113; dress, 113; ornaments, 115; head-dresses, 117; mode of wearing the hair, 120; diet, 121; rneals, 121; households in, 122; etiquette, 124; causes of offence, 124; sacredness of chiefs, 127; travelling parties, 128; dances, 132; musical instruments, 135; singing, 136; sports, 136; feasts, 137,235; games, 138; manufactures, 141; nets, 142; cloth, 143; dyes, 145; canoe-building, 145; housebuilding, 153; tattooing, 157; treatment of the Sick, 164; diseases, 165; ele-phantiasis, 169; marriage, 171; polygamy, 175; birth-customs, 175; the rearing of children, 177; death-bed customs, 180; funerals, 182; embalming, 184; animals in, 186; birds of, 190; fish of, 199; modes of fishing, 201; snakes in, 206; chorus of cicadae, 207; leeches, 208; sea-worm, 208; mythology, 210; deities, 210; traditions, 211, 229, 238, 272, 292; spirits of the dead, 215; War-gods, 216; condition of the dead, 217; veneration of war-clubs, 210; priesthood, 220; spirit-houses, 226; haunts of spirits, 228; dread of Aitu, 231; Satanic agency, 233, 259; offerings to Aitu, 234; Single combats, 236; song, 237; intercourse with Tonga, 241; wars, 242; weapons, 244; mode of fighting, 245; treatment of the slain, 249; wars of 1830, 250; early voyages, 271; Mode of living on canoes, 285; native records, 287.
• Samoans, description of, 58.
• Sandpipers, 194.
• Satanic agency, 233, 259.
• Savaii, description of, 34.
• Sea-birds, 194.
• Sepetaio, 265, 290.
• Sharks, 201.
• Shaving, mode of, 119.
• Shell-blowers, 123.
• Shell-fish, 199.
• Shell ornaments, 115.
• Sick, treatment of the, 164.
• Singing, 133, 136.
• Slain, treatment of the, 249.
• Slavery, 75.
• Slings, 244.
• Snakes, 206.
• Song, fighting, 237.
• Sorcery, 164.
• Speaking, public, 25.
• Spirit-houses, 226.
• Spirits, fear of, 184; state on disembodied, 215.
• Sports, 136.
• Sting-ray, barb of, used as a weapon, 111.
• Stone-throwing, strange, 264.
• Submarine volcanoes, 42.
• Swallows, 194.
• Swimming, 64, 139.

• Tangaloa, 212.
• Tangatā nu'u, 74.
• Tangiia, 281.
• Tattooing, 157.
• Temples, 112, 226.
• Thatching, 155.
• Titles, native, 65.
• Tonga, intercourse with, 241.
• Tonga, or offerings, 82.
• Trades, list of, 142.
• Traditions, early, 211, 229, 238, 272, 292.
• Trees, 52.
• Truces, 248.
• Tui A'ana,71.
• Tui-one-ula, story of, 98.
• Tulafale, the, 70.
• Tuli, 212.
• Tupu, a title, 76.
• Tutuila, discovery of, 22: description of, 26.

• Upolu, description of, 31.

• Vaults, family, 179.
• Visiting, 128.
• Volcanoes, 34.
• Voyage to New Zealand, 242
• Voyages, early, 271.

• War-clubs, reverence for, 219
• War-cry, 80.
• Wars, 243, 244, 248.
• Washing, mode of, 122.
• Water-hen, the, 192.
• Weapons, 244.
• Wigs, 121.
• Winds, 37.
• Wounds, treatment of, 167.

• Yams, cultivation of, 54.