INDEX

Administrator, an, [8]
Adornments, trumpery, [172]
Adventurers, [3], [15], [16]
Agricultural pursuits, [23]
Aird, river, [6]
Ancestor warship, [153]
Anchor, [66]
Anchors, jamming of, [68]
Ambryn, [147], [169]
Americans, [12]
Aoba, [78], [79], [81], [147], [180]
Armlets, [42], [51]
Arrowroot, [188]
Arrows, the, [180]
Attack, mode of, [99]
Australasian Trading Company, [16]
Australia, [11], [12]
- aboriginal of, [26]
Australians, [7]
Bamboo, [20]
Bananas, [22], [24], [62], [187]
Baskets, [176]
Beck, Louis, [72]
Betel-nut, chewing of, [111]
Bibles, [14]
“Blackbirding,” [190]
Black labour, [10]
Blackmailing, [50]
Boat, the labour, [188]
- prow, [178]
Bonita, call, [115]
- fishing, [113]
Bougainville, de, [5], [9], [10], [11], [92], [133]
Bow and arrow, [133]
Bracelets, [157]
Bread-fruit trees, [177]
British Government, [7]
British New Guinea, [6], [8], [26], [30]
- youth of, [38]
British subjects, [12]
Brown, Rev. Dr., [64]
Buka, [10]
Bundaberg, [188]
Burial ceremony, [166]
Burial ground of the traders, [79], [80]
Burns Philp, Messrs, [16], [29], [72], [81], [186]
Bush, men of the, [22], [32]
Call by bonito, [115]
Canoe, [17], [23], [27], [58]
- buying of, [27]
- houses, [89]
Canoes, big, [178]
- building of, [26], [60], [176]
- small, [61]
Cannibalism (Sol. Is.), [95]
Capes, [49]
Ceremonial purposes, [54]
Ceremonies, sacred, [34]
Ceremony, [38], [43]
Chalmers, James, [65], [198], [199], [200]
- death of, [204]
Chester, Mr., [7]
Child, carrying of, [35], [36]
Children, [32], [36]
- games of, [33]
Cicatrices, [174]
- raised, [107]
Civilisation, [16]
Clark, George, [75], [77]
- death of, [78]
Clay, [62]
- for pottery making, [62]
Climate, [4]
Climbing fish, [64]
Clubs, [28]
Cocoa-nut groves, [29]
- oil of the, [185]
- palms, [183]
Cocoa-nuts, [62]
Coffee, [187]
“Coming out,” [38]
Compounds, [188]
Cook, Captain, [5], [11]
Cooking, [34], [111]
- pots, [20]
Copra, [183], [185], [187]
- boat, [186]
- trade, [185]
Costumes, ceremonial, [30]
- humour of, [173]
- queer, [49]
Crab, van der, [6]
Crocodiles, [15], [122]
Cures effected, [45]
Custom, another, [42]
Dance costumes, [49], [52]
- description of festival, [51]
- dook-dook, [50]
- the fish, [49]
- the funeral, [128]
- for love-making, [54]
- the war, [129]
Dances, [30], [49]
- native, [49]
Dancing, [31]
- art of, [38]
- ground, the, [51]
Dancing, skirt, [52]
Davis, Rear-Admiral, [99]
Death of a husband, [46]
- visit of, [46]
Demits, [156]
Dook-dook dance, [50]
Douglas, Hon. John, [7]
Draughtsmen, [131]
Drawings on wood, [132]
Droughts, [4]
Drum-making, [38]
Drums, [39], [51], [158]
Drying ground, [186]
Dubu, [54]
- dance for women, [54]
- house, an old, [66]
Dutch, [5], [6]
Dynamite fishing, [63], [117]
Eade, Dick, [74]
Ear-rings, grotesque, [106]
Earth oven, [23]
Earthenware jars, [23]
Education, [13]
Efaté, [153], [154], [167], [172]
Effigies, [156], [157]
Elevera, [17], [21], [24], [26], [27]
Emigration scheme, [12]
Enemies, [28]
England, [12]
Equal rights, [8]
Erskine, Commodore, [4]
Euro, [88]
Evanena, [33]
Evil spirits, [46], [160]
- wishing, fear of, [138]
Expedition, hunting, head, [28]
- of Postillion, [6]
- of Trinton, [6]
Explorers, [3]
Faces, decorating of, [175]
Faith, [168]
Fanarita, [101]
Feast, [29]
Festival dance, description of, [51]
Festivals, [30]
Fiddle played by mouth, [131]
Fiji, [10], [32]
Fijians, [25]
Fire, [19]
- producing of, [132]
Fish, [62]
- climbing, [64]
- dance, [49]
- spearing of, [63], [118]
Fishing, [26], [180]
- by bonito, [113]
- with dynamite, [63], [117]
- by kite, [116]
- by moonlight, [116]
- by nets, [62]
- by spears, [118]
- for turtles, [181]
Florida Island, [102]
Flowers, [104]
Food, [23], [108]
- eating of certain, [40]
France, [11], [12]
“French Jack,” [11], [93]
- residents, [143]
Fresh water, objection to, [151]
Frigate bird, [57], [107]
Funeral rites, [126]
Funerals, [30]
Furniture, [18]

Games, [34]
- rough boyish, [34]
Germans, [5]
Germany, [10]
Gill, Rev. William, [198]
Girl’s love-letter, [43]
Girls, [34]
Glasgow City Mission, [199]
Gorging, [91]
Government House, [17]
- officials, [17]
Granville, [16]
Graveyard, [127]
Great Britain, [10], [11]
Great southern continent, [10]
Guadalcana, [9], [92], [101]
Guppy, Dr. H. B., [101], [138]
Habitations, [20]
Haddon, Professor, [41], [43]
Hair, [25], [31], [174]
- arrangement of, [31]
- bleached, [107]
- bushy, [38]
- sale of, [32]
Hanuabada, [17], [24], [26]
Harbour, [16]
Hardy, Mr., [27], [64], [73], [108], [109], [167]
Hayes, Bully, [201]
Head-hunter, notorious, [98]
- hunters, [16]
- hunting, [37], [97], [102]
- hunting, big expedition, [28]
Heads, shaving of, [25]
- wanted, [102]
Hebrides, [144]
Heirlooms, [19]
H.M.S. Fly, [6]
H.M.S. Rattlesnake, [6]
Honolulu, [32]
“Hope,” [89], [134]
- altars, [136]
Houses, construction of (Sol. Is.), [86]
- interiors of the, [149]
Human beings, cooking of, [111]
Hunting, [22]
Hunting pigs, [120]
Husband, death of, [46]
Huts, [17], [20]
- building of, [176]
- interiors of, [87]
- of skulls, [168]
Hutten, Old Harry, [74]
Ibitoe, [38], [39], [166]
Idols, [157]
Immigrants, [9]
Industry, the chief, [145]
Infanticide, [102]
Ingova of Rubiana Lagoon, New Georgia, [90], [98]
Ingova, head-hunters of, [98]
Ingova’s Euro, [98]
- house at Rubiana, [89]
Isabel, [9], [101]
Islas de Salomon, [9]
Ivivu, [130]
Jammed, [66]
Jew’s harp, [130], [131]
Kai-kai dish, [110]
Kidnapped, [10], [29]
Kite fishing, [116]
Kolff, Lieutenant, [5]
Krause, Rev. E. W., [198]
Labour, [29]
- boat, the, [188]
- organised, [29]
- trade in New Guinea, [189]
Ladder, [18]
Lakatois, [59], [61]
- construction of, [60]
Laws of marriage, [166]
Leap-frog, [33]
Legends, [137], [176]
Leglets, [42]
Le Hunte, George Ruthven, Esq., [8]
Lion’s head, the, [92]
Loafers, [29]
Loafing, [31]
Loin-cloth of tappa, [174]
London Missionary Society, [196], [199]
Love, [40], [41]
Love charms, [44]
Love-making, [37]
Lovesick swain, [41]
Lying, art of, [28]
Macdonald, Mr., [153]
Macgregor, Governor, [7], [189]
M‘Ilwraith, Sir Thomas, [7]
Mackay, [188]
Mai, [100], [101]
Malayan trepang, [118]
Malays, [5]
Malekula, [145], [147], [150], [154], [167], [169], [173], [176], [177], [179], [180], [184]
Mambare river massacre, the, [75]
Mangoes, [65], [66]
Man and wife, [43]
Maori method of carrying, [36]
Maoris of New Zealand, [25], [44], [45], [194]
Marriage, [34], [40]
- laws, [166]
- preparation for, [31]
- proposal of, [37]
Masks, [49]
- construction of, [50]
- hideous design of, [49]
Massacred, [204]
Massacres, [14], [102]
Mats, [18], [150], [175]
Medicine men, [139]
Meeting, arrangements for the, [42]
Mekko district, [49]
Men, burying alive of, [145]
Meyer, Don Alvaro Mendana de, [9], [11]
Mendana de, Islands, [9]
Meyers, Dr., [6]
Mineral, [3]
Mission of the City of Glasgow, [199]
Mission House, [17]
Missionaries, [3], [7], [14], [65], [193]
- tales of, [194]
Missionary Society of London, [196], [199]
Missionary Society of Tahiti, [197]
Moonlight fishing, [116]
Moresby, Captain, [6]
Mother, [35]
Motus, [22], [23]
Mourners, the chief, [128]
Mourning, [30], [46]
- special dress, [46]
- universal, [126]
Mouth fiddle, [131]
Music, ears for, [130]
Narak-burners, [164], [165]
- stones, [164]
Native babies, [35]
- costume, [30]
- dances, [48]
- diet, [111]
- eyesight, [119]
- inquisitiveness, [26]
- instrument, [130]
- police, [8]
- police clothes and duties, [30]
- villages, [86]
Natives, [15], [21], [23], [168]
- of New Guinea, [25]
- swimming, [67]
Naturalisation papers, [12]
Necklaces, [52]
Nets, [117]
- hand, [117]
- fishing, [62]
New Britain, [13]
New Georgia, [95], [107]
New Guinea, [4], [5], [7], [10], [13], [16], [36], [37], [47], [49], [56], [176], [184]
- divorce, laws of, [43]
- labour, trade in, [189]
- natives of, [25], [26], [44]
New Hebrides, [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [78], [79], [143], [185]
- settlement in, [143]
New Zealand, Maoris of, [25]
Nicolas the Greek, [73]
Nose-rings, [106]
Oil of the cocoa-nut, [185]
Opossum, [121]
Ornaments, [104]
Outrages, [14]
Outriggers, [58], [177]
Over-gorging, [161]

Paint, [175]
Palavanua, [88]
Pandean pipe, [130]
Papuan, [35], [36], [37], [39]
- boy, coming of age, [38]
- dandy, [32]
Paradise, veritable, [144]
Pentecost Island, [179]
Petty Sessions Courts, [8]
Pig-a-back, [33]
- ceremonies, [162]
- hunting of, [120]
- sacrifices of, [155]
Pile dwellings, [86]
Pioneer settler, [144]
Pitman and Buzacott, Messrs., [198]
Planters, [10]
Platform, [18], [21]
Police, the, [21], [30]
- magistrate, [8]
Port Moresby, [7], [16], [17], [22], [24], [26], [29], [61], [75]
- Resolution, [148]
- Vila, [143]
Postillion expedition, [6]
Pottery, [24], [61], [176]
- industry, the, [61]
- making, [26], [34]
Pratt, Johnnie, [74]
Preferential tariff, [12]
Queensland, [7], [188]
- coast, [188]
- Government, [4], [78]
- sugar refining, [188]
Quiros, de, [9], [10], [11]
Rain-maker, the, [168]
- making, remarkable, [170]
Rano Island, [177], [179]
Raratonga, [197], [201]
Religion, [124], [155]
Resident magistrate, [8]
Residents, French, [143]
Rubiana, in, [97], [107]
Sacedra, Alvaro de, [5]
Sacred ideas, [182]
- stone, [161]
Sacrifice, [29]
Sacrifices of pig, [155]
Sago, [61], [62]
St. Christoval, [101]
Sale, [32]
Samari, [184]
Samoa, [10], [32]
San Christoval, [9]
Santa Anna, [100]
- Catalina, [91]
- Cruz, [9]
Sanitary arrangements, [151]
Sapuna, [100]
Savage song, [159]
- lands, magic in, [44]
Savages, [13]
Scratchley, Sir Peter, [7]
Sea, men of the, [22]
Secret rites, [28]
Shaving, [107]
Shed, [186]
Shell-money, [164]
- necklaces, [105]
Shields, [133]
Shooting fish, [64]
Silent philosophy, [36]
Simbo, [127]
“Sing-sing” [167]
- grounds, [157], [158]
Skull-huts, [168]
Skulls, string of, [37]
Slave-dealers, [191]
Solomons or New Guinea, [185]
Solomon Islands, the, [9], [10], [13], [84], [86], [91], [94], [145]
- islanders, clothing of, [104]
- King, [9]
Somerville, Lieut. Boyle T., R.N., [129], [167]
Song, a savage, [159]
Sorcerer, the, [44]
South Pacific, [10]
- Sea Islands, [3], [13], [14]
- Seas, excitement of, [75]
- trader, [71]
Spaniards, the, [11]
Spanish explorers, [10]
Spearing fish, [63], [118]
Spears, [28]
- and clubs, [133]
Sports, [120]
Staple foods, [62]
State councils, [8]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [204]
Stories, amusing, [78]
Streamers, [174]
Street, [17]
String armlet, [41]
Superstition, [22], [39], [44], [45], [88], [115], [137], [163], [170]
Superstitions, [14], [15], [23], [40]
Surprise attack, [28], [29]
Sweet potatoes, [62]
Swimmers and divers, born, [32]
Swimming natives, [67]
Taboo, [88]
Tahitian Missionary Society, [197]
Taki, [106]
“Tamate,” [198], [201]
Tambu houses, [90], [91], [92], [152]
Tanna Island, [83], [147], [148], [172], [184]
Tappa loin-cloth, [174]
Taros, [22], [187]
“Tartan Jock,” [79], [81]
Tattooing, [32], [56], [107], [174]
Thatch, [20]
Tierra Australis del Espiritu Santo, [11]
Tight-lacing, [41]
Tohunga, [44]
Tohunganism, [45]
Tools, the, [176]
Torres, Luis Vaez de, [5], [10], [11]
- Straits, [5], [11]
Trade beads, [172]
Traders, [14], [15], [28], [186]
- burial-ground, [79], [80]
- experiences of, [81]
- of the South Sea, [71]
- risks of, [72]
- small, tales of the, [73]
Tredacua shells, the, [105]
Tree-houses, [21]
Tribal wars, [22]
Trinton expedition, [6]
Trumpery adornments, [172]
Tupusuli, [64], [65], [66]
Turtle fishing, [181]
Twine skirts, [54]
Urio Moquru, [45], [46]
Vegetable, [3]
Verandahs, [21], [22]
Veritable paradise, [144]
Villages, [149]
Volcano, [148]
Wallaby, [23]
War, weapons of, [132], [179]
Western islands, [41]
Wild animals, [17]
Wild diet, [180]
Willey, Dr., [109]
Williams, John, [197], [204]
Witchcraft, [163]
Wives, plurality of, [43]
Women, [29], [31]
- folk, [28]
- and girls, costumes of, [31]
- labour of the, [34]
- married, work of the, [35]
- workers, [175]
- young, [25]
Worship, places of, [157]
Wyllie, Dr., [64]
Yacht, saving of, [67]
Yams, [22], [24], [62], [187]
- the chief’s, [187]
Yost, Prof. von, [64]

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