The Savage South Seas

by E. Way Elkington

“With all their gross blots, with all their deficiency of candour, honour, and of common sense, the missionaries are the best and most useful whites in the Pacific.”

SKETCH MAP OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

MAP ACCOMPANYING “THE SAVAGE SOUTH SEAS,” PAINTED BY NORMAN H. HARDY, DESCRIBED BY E. WAY ELKINGTON, F.R.G.S. (A. AND C. BLACK, LONDON).

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]

THE END

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