CONTEXTS. 



XV 



Attempts at Thieving, 439. Modes of 

 Expression, 440. Mode of Threatening 

 Death by Signs, 441. Armed Boat 

 Bobbed, 442. Villages of Pile-Dwell- 

 lings, 445. 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



THE ADMIBALTY ISLANDS. 



History of Visits to the Islands, 449. 

 Eagerness of the Natives for Iron, 451. 

 Trade Gear, 451. Trading with the 

 Natives, 452. Geological Structure of 



the Islands, 455. 

 overhanging 



Orchids and Ferns 

 the Sea, 455. Fern re- 

 sembling a Liverwort, 455. Difficul- 

 ties in Collecting Words of then* Lan- 

 guage from the Natives, 456. Their 

 Methods of Counting, 457. Curious 

 Mode of Expressing Negation, 457. 

 Physical Characteristics of the Natives, 



458. Hairiness of Baces Compared, 



459. Possible Signification of Moles, 

 459. Clothes, Han Dressing and 

 Ornaments of the Natives, 460. Tat- 

 tooing and Painting, 463. Betel- 

 Chewing and Food, 464. Houses, 

 Temples, and Canoes of the Natives, 

 465. Their Implements and Weapons, 

 467. Artistic Skill of the Natives, 469. 

 Then Musical Instruments 

 and Singing, 471 

 472. 

 472. 



Hair in their 

 Beligion, 474. 

 Natives, 477. 

 and Toys, 477 



Fortification 

 Wooden Gods, 473 



Dancing 

 Their Polygamy, 

 of then Villages, 

 Skulls and 

 Temples, 474. Their 

 Disposition of the 

 Their Fear of Goats 

 Population of the 



Islands, 478. Domestic Animals, Birds 

 and other Animals at the Islands, 478. 

 Habits of Gar-Fish, 479. 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



JAPAN. THE SANDWICH 

 ISLANDS. 



Tedious Voyage to Japan, 481. Jinrik- 

 sha Coolies, 482. Worship of the 

 White Horse, 482. Japanese Sight- 

 Seers, 483. Consulting the Oracle, 

 483. Japanese Pilgrims, 484. Book 

 Shops and Beligious Shops, 484. 

 Biver Embankments, 485. Bice Fields, 

 485. Houses of Wood and Paper, 485. 

 English Bed-room Exhibited at the 

 Exhibition, 486. Money Boxes, 487. 

 Pilgrims and Priests, 487. Interest 

 taken by the People in Tojins, 488. 

 Cold Water Cme, 488. Painting of 

 the Face in China and Japan, 489. 

 Japanese Tattooing, 491. Japanese 

 Modes of Expression, 482. Japanese 

 Pictures and Theatres, 493. Barren 



Appearance of the Sandwich Islands, 

 495. Honolulu, 495. Supremacy of 

 American over Native Productions, 496. 

 Principal Trees of Oahu Island, 497. 

 King Kalakaua, 497. Hawaian Burials, 



498. Visit to the Crater of Kilauea, 



499. Ponds of Fluid Lava, 501. 

 Mode of Formation of Pele's Hair, 502. 

 Lava Fountains and Cascades, 502. 

 Becent Eruptions, 503. Hawaian 

 Hook Ornament, 504. Its Probable 

 Beligious Signification, 505. 

 Stone Club, 510. Affinities 

 New Zealand and Hawaian Art, 510 

 Inter-breeding on Isolated 

 512. 



Hawaian 

 between 



Islands, 



CHAPTEE XX. 



TAHITI. JUAN FEBNANDEZ. 



Death of Budolph Von Willemoes Suhm, 

 513. Scientific Papers and Journals 

 left by Him, 513. Papeete, 514. 

 Excursion into the Mountains, 516. 

 Fly-Fishing in a Mountain Stream, 

 516. Uses of the Wild Banana, 517. 

 Vegetation Composed mainly of 

 Ferns, 518. Camping at Night, 

 519. Tahitian Mountain Map, 520. 

 Ascent to 4,000 feet Altitude, 521. 

 Petrels Nesting at this Height, 

 521. Their Possible Influence in 

 Distribution of Plants, 522. Ignor- 

 ance of the Natives Concerning the 

 Mountains, 523. Mode of Alternation 

 of Generations in the Mushroom 

 Coral, 524. Structure of Millepora, 

 525. Structure of the Stylasteridae, 

 528. Catching Land-Crabs, 535. 

 Tahitian National Air, 536. Juan 

 Fernandez, 537. Preponderance of 

 Ferns, 537. Destruction of Trees, 538. 

 Gunnera Chilensis, 538. Conspicuous 

 Flowers, 539. Humming Ends of the 

 Island, 539. Their Fertilization of 

 Flowers, 539. Smallness of the Island 

 Compared with the Number of Endemic 

 Forms, 541. Endemic Palm, 541. 

 Dendroseris, 542. 



CHAPTEE XXI. 



CHILE. MAGELLAN'S STBAITS. 

 FALKLAND ISLANDS. ASCEN- 

 SION. 



Valparaiso, 543. The Andes not Con- 

 spicuous, 543. Cattle lassoed in the 

 Streets, 544. Excursion up the 

 Uspallata Pass, 544. Leafless Mistle- 

 toe on the Leafless Cactus, 545. An 

 Equestrian Hair Cutter, 546. Dead 

 and Disabled Animals on the Pass, 

 547. Use of the Lasso in Bobbery and 

 Flirtation, 548. Cleverness of a Horse 

 on a Mountain Path, 548. Fjords of 



