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CONTENTS. 
Introduction—Continued. 
Vegetation of the Island—Continued. 
The people 
Aboriginal inhabitants. ..........--------------------------------- 
Physical characteristics ...........2---2-2------------- 
Personal and domestic economy ...........--....--.- 
Useful arts........----------------------- 2-2 --- 
Navigation...............00.0.00000------2---------- 
Mental and moral characteristics ......-------.------ 
Social institutions and customs ....------------------ 
Religion and superstitions ............2.-.-2-2.-..---- 
Language ......----------------------- eee eeeee- 
Origin ............-.--------------- eee eee 
The modern inhabitants 
Index 
Plants of special interest—Continued. 
Yams, bananas, and breadfruit..............-...-.-- 
Plants with extrafloral nectaries.........-----.------ 
Plants with protective devices. .........--.---------- 
Jycas circinalis and its fecundation ..............---- 
’ Dispersal of plants by oceanic currents 
Animals of the island 
Physical characteristics ......-.-.------+----------------------- 
Personal and domestic economy......-...----------- 
Useful arts. .......2.2-----2------------ 22-22-22 ee 
Mental and moral characteristics .....-.....--.------ 
Social institutions and customs ....-..--------------- 
Industrial system ....-.-------------------------------------- 
Statistics of population, commerce, ete ....-...----------------- 
Standards of measure.........----------------- ++ e eee eee eee 
Agriculture of the island 
Soils ........ 2.02.0 eee eee ee eee eee 
Indigenous and spontaneous economic plants....-..--- 
Cultivated food and stimulant plants..............--- 
Textile and thatch plants .-......---...------------------------ 
Forage plants ............-.------------------------ 
General notes ............------.-----------------e- 
Alphabetical list of principal fishes .........2-..----- 
Marine invertebrates ............0...-2.2--0 0000020222 ee eee eee eee 
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Animal pests......------------------------------------------- 
Plant names 
Literature .......--..-.----- wee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee beeee eee ee eee 
Topical sketch 
Alphabetical list of works consulted or cited. ....-.--..------------- 
Descriptive catalogue of plants 
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