Index

• Abipone Indians, 180
• Abortion, procuring, 221; compatible with high birth-rate, 223; by mechanical means, 224; in Gilbert 1., 225; law against, 226
• Abstinence during suckling, 176; in Tonga, 178
• Adulteration, 307
• Agriculture, 339
• Alluvial land, 370 A miable Josephine captured, 36
• Ancestor worship, xi; key to government, 57
• Ancestry, common, 5
• Annexation, 55
• Argo, wreck of, 25, 246
• Aristocracy created by war, 59
• Army, size of, 91; of Thakombau, 101
• Arnold, Sir E., 179
• Assault on forts, 13

• Banana disease, 338
• Bantus, increasing, xii
• Barter, 385
• Basques, ix
• Beachcombers, 27
• Bêche-de-mer, 32, 43
• Bethencourt, de, xvii
• Betrothal, customs of, 201; gifts, 204
• Birth, customs, 206
• Bligh, Capt., 24
• Boasting ceremony, 90
• Bora rites in Australia, 148
• Borderers, 88
• Bougainville, viii
• Bouro, 118
• Burial, Lament of Shades, 131
• Bushrangers, 309

• Calico, displaces tapa, 2
• Canal dug by natives, 32
• Cannibalism, 102; seen by Whilkes, 102; origin of, 103; vitiated taste for, 103, tabu to women, 104; drum, 104; names for human joints, 104; reasons for, 104; act of triumph, 105; feast at Male, 106; chant, 107; forks, 109; among ghosts, 128
• Cannon first used, 53
• Canoes, 9, 46; evolution of, 290; twin, 292; cost of, 293; Tongan, 294
• Carew, Mr. W., 179
• Carnac, 147
• Castaways, 15,22; eaten, 102
• Catoira, Gomez, viii Caves, 92
• Census, 195
• Ceremonial licence, 154, 157, 171
• Cession, proposed, 54
• Charms, 164, 168
• Chatham, wreck of, 249
• Chiefs, spiritual, 60; temporal, 61; titles of, at Mbau, 61; power curtailed by missions, 64; rarely complained of, 74
• Circumcision, 216
• Claims of U.S. Government, 52
• Club-houses, 175, 241, 388
• Clubs, working, 68
• Codrington, Dr. R. H., 179, 193
• Comet, 26, 246
• Community of property, 79
• Conclusions, 387
• Concubitancy, 184; limitations of, 190; fecundity of, 199
• Confederations, a modern growth, 60; in decay, 62
• Conquest, safest civilizing method, x Constabulary, armed native, 101, 317.
• Convicts, myth concerning, 27
• Cook, Capt., 248, 271page 392
• Copts, xiv
• Corney, Dr. B. G., 255, 260
• Corvée, 68
• Councils, provincial, 288, 337
• Couvâde, 179
• Cows, improperly kept, 229, 336
• Creation myth, 134
• Creches, 214
• Cricket, 332
• Cruelty, 305
• Cruelty to animals, 3

• Daily habits, 229
• Dances, 284
• Dates, calculated by genealogies, 4, 18; of Melanesion settlement, 10
• Death dance, 96
• Decay of custom, xii
• Deluge, 17, 26, 137
• Dengue fever, 252 d'Entrecasteaux, 86
• Depilation, 303
• Detection of crime, by witchcraft, 167; by soul stealing, 168
• Disease, native theory of, xiii; treatment of, xiii; epidemic, 243; from European contact, 253
• Disenchantment, 250
• Dismisser, 125, 132
• Divinities, 112
• Dollars, from wreck, 28
• Drugs, 223
• Drums, 93 d'Urville, Capt. Dumont, 27, 37
• Dysentery, 246, 251

• Eclipse of sun, 26, 246
• Edwards, Capt., 24
• Eel bridge, 121
• Eliza, wreck of, 27
• Elysium, 118
• Epic of Ndengei, 138
• Epidemic diseases, xii, 243
• Erskine, Commodore, 41
• Eskimo, viii
• Essomeric, xvii
• Execution, 342
• Exorcism, 250

• Games, 318, 328
• Genealogies, average twenty-five years, 18
• Gilbert 1., 210
• God of Fire, 113; of Increase, 114; of Origin, 5; of the Afterworld 117; of Thunder Hill, 130
• Gods, 111
• Gordon, Sir A., 65
• Gordon, Rev. G. N., 247

• Hairdressing, 302
• Half-castes, xvii
• Hatred, race, xv, xvii
• Hawaii, 4; genealogies, 11
• Honesty, 3
• Hunter, visit of, 31, 95
• Hysteria, religious, 162

• Iiai Moto-ni-thothoka, 6
• Immortality, heresy, 141
• Immortality maidens, 142
• Inbreeding, 200
• Insouciance, 228
• Inspectors, travelling, 79
• Inspiration of priests, 158, 160
• Intellect of savages, xiv
• Invulnerable, making, 156
• Iron, name for, 11
• Iroquois, 195
• Irrigation, 339

• Japanese, 179
• Joske, Mr. Adolph, 148
• Juju, xiii Jumping-off place, 6, 118

• Kalourere, rites, 169
• Kalou-Vu, 5
• Kamba, siege of, 46, 50
• Kaunitoni, first canoe, 6
• Kava, 213, 283, 307, 341; chant, 344
• Kerekere, 79; results of, 80
• Kites, war, 93
• Koroi, form of knighthood, 28, 97

• Labour among hill women, 209, 210
• Lakemba 1., 51
• Lata, 66; misunderstood, 66; communal, 67; compared to local rates, 68; sanitation by, 69; personal, 70; a landed interest, page 39371; commutation of, 73, 77; oppressive, 73
• Lala, Ratu, 16
• Land customs increase power of chiefs, 59; Polynesian, 70; worthless without cultivation, 71; England confirms native titles, 72; tenure, 354; sale of, 354; arable, 358; waste, 362; tenure in Rewa, 366; leasehold, 376; reclaimed, 377
• Lands, sold to Europeans, 55
• Lasakau fishermen, 23
• Lavo, 330
• Law of custom, decay of, xviii
• Lawry, Rev. W., on abortion, 221
• Leasehold, 376
• Leper stones, 260
• Leprosy in Fiji; 255; in other islands, 255; described by Aristotle, 257; introduction into Europe, 257; contagious, 259; traditions concerning, 261
• Levuka town, 33; expulsion of whites, 40; burnt, 45
• Levuka tribe, 23
• Licence, ceremonial, 154, 157', sexual, in war, 240
• Lifu 1., 249
• Lila, wasting sickness, 25, 243
• Liquor law, 386
• Loot, 96
• Love sickness, 241
• Lutu-na-sombasomba, first ancestor, 6, 8
• Lying, 305, 312

• Maafu, leads Tongans, 53; death.
• Maclennan, Mr., 57, 203
• Maine, Sir H., 356, 389
• Malae, Polynesian temple, 149
• Malake, 8
• Malaria, 251
• Maoris, leprosy among, 256
• Mara, Ratu, 34
• Mariner, William, 29, 271
• Markets, 288
• Marquesas 1., 4
• Marriage system, 182; restrictions of, 193; origin of, 193; census of, 195
• Marriages, mixed, xvi
• Masai, xiv, xv
• Massage, 225
• Mata-ni-vanua, functions of, 62
• Matchmaker at Mbau, 62
• Maternal instinct, 231
• Matuku 1., 25
• Mba province, 32
• Mbaki rites, 146
• Mbalolo, 324
• Mbanuve, King of Mbau, 23; death of, 26, 246
• Mbati, 88
• Mbau, sets fashions, 2; origin, 22; constitution of, 61
• Mbole, boasting, 90
• Mbua, province, 51
• Mbulotu, Fijian Elysium, 117
• Mbutoni, 23
• Meals, 337
• Measles epidemic, 252
• Medical students, 313
• Mendaña, viii
• Meningitis, 252
• Mercenaries, 86
• Merivale alignments, 147
• Midwives, 206, 209, 210
• Milk, substitutes for, 214, 336, 337
• Missionaries, arrival of, 36, 52; repulsed from Mbau, 42; persecuted, 43; short-sightedness, 389
• Missionary killed and eaten, 107
• Mixed blood in Europe, ix; through conquest, x
• Moats, 91
• Moe-moe, act of homage, xi
• Moerenhout, 255
• Money, use of, 289; copper coin unpopular, 307; effect of, 386
• Monomotapa, Emperor of, xvii
• Mourning, ceremonial, 311, 375
• Murdu legend, 193
• Musket, first, 28; imported, 86

• Nailatikau, King of Mbau, 23
• Nakauvandra, 5, 6, 9, 134, 136
• Namara tribe, 31
• Nandronga, 15, 64
• Nanga rites, 146; origin of, 149
• Narauyamba, siege of, 136
• Natewa, 41page 394
• Navigation, prehistoric, 16, 290
• Ndambe, injury to children, 177, 388
• Ndauthina, fire-god, 113
• Ndengei, 7, 10, 16, 112, 133; Melanesian deity, 134; epic of, 138
• Ndeumba, wealth of, 81, 287
• Negroes, ix; educated, xiv; beach-combers, 32
• Nemani Ndreu, 149, 171
• New Caledonia, Expedition to, 44, 249
• New Guinea, 214, 250
• Niué 1., 248
• Nkara, King of Rewa, 41, 44, 46, 48; death, 49
• Noikoro tribe, 14
• Nyassa, natives, 180

• Obligatory marriage, 184
• Obstetrics, 207
• Oliver, Mr., discovered Matuku, 25
• Oneata 1., 26
• Orua, preparation for defeat, 92
• Outriggers, 291
• Ovalau 1., 33
• Overlord of land, 70

• Paddles, 295
• Palæolithic men, viii
• Pandanus tree, 121
• Pandora, H.M.S., 24; tender of, 25
• Path of the Shades, 119, 120
• Peering goddesses, 122
• Penrhyn 1., 249
• Perouse, Count de 1a, 29
• Perversion, 241
• Pigs, 336, 378; sacred, 151
• Pinching stone, 124
• Place of Wonder, 127
• Planting, 337
• Pocahontas, xvii
• Poetry, 314
• Polygamy, 172, 235
• Polynesians, 12; alleged settlement in Fiji, 13; route of, 14; sexual licence, 234
• Population, decrease of, 198
• Portent, death, 49
• Poultry, 336
• Priests, 62, 157; inspiration of, 158, 160; reformation of, 159
• Prostitution unknown, 173
• Pursuer of Shades, 122
• Pylstaart 1., 15

• Race antipathy, xv, xvii
• Rajakarya in Ceylon, 68
• Rebellion of inland tribes, 55
• Reclaimed land, 377
• Reefs, property in, 385
• Relationships, 182
• Religion, ancestor-worship, xi, III
• Rent, 376, 379
• Review, tangka, 90
• Revolt at Seankanka, 145
• Rewa, 23; war with Mbau, 39; burnt, 39; constitution, 367
• Ritova, 201
• Robson, Capt., 30
• Roko Tui, spiritual chief, 61
• Rokola, ancestor of craftsmen, 6, 9
• Romans, as slave-holders, ix
• Rotuma, 317
• Rowe, G. S., 56

• Sailosi, scribe of Mba, 82
• St. Christoval I., 118
• St. Kilda I., 250
• Salt-pans, 360
• Sambeto, murder of, 306
• Sandal-wood traders, 27
• Sanitation by lala, 69, 79; by fear of witchcraft, 166, 210
• Savage, Charles, 28, 95; made koroi, 100; armoured chair, 101; death, 30
• Savage 1., 248
• Savings of Fijians, 82
• Scrofula, 200
• Seemann, 107
• Serpent-worship, 16, 17, 114
• Sexual morality, 233; decline of, 236, 388
• Shades, Lament of, 130
• Sharks, 115, 309
• Sieges, 93
• Sierra Leone, 178
• Skin diseases, 250, 276
• Slade, Rev. W., 229
• Smell, sense of, 303
• Smoking out enemy, 92
• Smythe, Col., 54
• Solevu, 68, 280; in decay, 286page 395
• Solomon 1., viii, xv
• Somosomo, 37, 51
• Sorties, 94
• Soul stealing, 168
• Souls of children, 126
• South Africa, report of Native Commission, 174
• Spiritual chiefs, origin of, 60
• Spoliation by vasu, 75
• Stewart, Mr. James, 195
• Still-births, 210
• Strangling of widows, 132
• Stratagems, 94, 136
• Submission, mode of, 97, 364
• Suckling, 176, 177, 211
• Suva, destruction of, 38
• Swimming, 316

• Tabu, decay of, 64
• Tama, shout of respect, 305
• Tamils, 195
• Tanka, review, 90
• Tanna 1., 195, 247
• Tanoa, King of Mbau, 33; rebellion against, 33; return from exile, 35; death, 44
• Tasman, 24
• Tattooing of women, 217, 241
• Tauvu, kinship by, 5, 89, 380
• Taveuni 1., 37
• Tenure, individual, 369; in Tailevu, 382
• Thakaundrove province, 60
• Thakombau, 34, 35, 38; assumes title of King of Fiji, 42, 54; becomes Christian, 47; limits of territory, 48; declares constitution, 54; pension, 55; death, 55
• Theft, rare, 308
• Thimibi, death dance, 96
• Thriftlessness, 2
• Thunder Hill, 128
• Thurston, Sir J., 65
• Tinku, a game, 330
• Tobacco, 352
• Tofua 1., 25
• Tombe, token of virginity, 202, 302
• Tongans, voyages of, 15; assist Thakombau, 50; conquer Lau, 52; bravery, 94; canoes, 294
• Tortures, 96, 108
• Totemism, 115
• Tower builders, 17
• Trade, 280; in European goods, 286
• Traits of character, 304
• Transfer of land, 372
• Transition, state of, 232, 389
• Treachery, 95
• Tribal division, 355
• Tuberculosis, 277
• Tuka heresy, 140
• Tukuaho, Premier of Tonga, 16
• Turner, Rev. J., 247
• Turtles, 321; mode of killing, 321
• Turukawa, Ndengei's pigeon, 135
• Tylor, Dr. E. B., 104

• Ulcers, 278
• Undreundre, remarkable cannibal, 109

• Vasu, spoliation by, 75
• Vatulele 1., 92
• Verani, 37
• Verata tribe, 22, 23, 60
• Vessels, effect of, 69
• Vitality of offspring, 197
• Viwa, massacre at, 38; revival at, 162
• Vunda, 7, 9
• Vunivalu, temporal chief, 61

• Wailea, massacre at, 30
• War, creates aristocracy, 59; losses in, 85, 86; causes of, 88; declaration of, 89
• War-cry, 96
• War-paint, 303
• Wasting sickness, Lila, 25, 243
• Water, drinking, 340
• Water games, 318
• Water of solace, 120, 123, 132
• Waterhouse, Rev. J., 45
• Waya 1., 11
• Weaning, 215
• Wells, Mr. H. G., vii
• Wet nurses, 213
• Whooping-cough, 252
• Widows, strangled, 132
• Wilkes, Commodore, 37
• Wilkinson, Mr. D., 65
• Williams, Rev. J., 248
• Williams, Rev. T., 27, 56, 85
• Williams, U.S. Vice-consul, 51page 396
• Witchcraft, 163; sanitation by, 166, 210, 388; detection of crime by, 167
• Wyandots, 195

• Yams, 339
• Yasawa 1., 8, 63
• Yaws, 270; distribution of, 270, 275; in Timor, 270; symptoms, 271; sequelae, 272, contagion, 273; treatment, 274; believed beneficial, 275

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