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Index. 



Falmoulli Harbour, arrival of author 

 at, iii. 446 



Faole, one of the groups of Stuart's 

 Islands, ii. 604, 607-609 



Fare-rupe {Pteris esculenturn) of Ta- 

 hiti, iii. 245 



Fata Morgana, appearance of, i. 49 



Fauna of Island of St. Paul, i. 297 



Fautaua, a hill fort in Tahiti, iii. 227 ; 

 waterfall of, iii. 226 



Feejee Islands, iii. 89 



Feet, artificial compression of women's, 

 in China, ii. 372 



Fei, or wild plantain, Tahiti, iii. 243 



Fenton, F. D., his work on the origin 

 of the Maori population of New 

 Zealand, iii. 138-140 



Ferdinand Maximilian, Archduke, vi- 

 sits the Novara, iii. 452-455 



Ferguson, Sir James, Governor of 

 Gibraltar, i. 28, iii. 450 



Fernando de Noronha, island of, i. 117 



Fever Bark, or Cinchona. See China 

 tree. 



"Fiestas Ecales," Manila, ii. 314 



Fire, alarm of, on board, i. 420-422 



Fire companies in Valparaiso, iii. 288 



"Fire of the Gods," name of a New 

 Zealand weapon, iii. 101 



Fire on Island of Amsterdam, acci- 

 dental, i. 332 



Ficus Indica. See Banyan tree. 



Religiosa. See Bo-tree. 



Fish, species of, at St. Paul Island, i. 

 316 



Fitzroy Dry Dock, Cockatoo Island^ 

 Sydney, iii. 49 



Flata limhata, or wax insect of China. 

 See Coccus pelah. 



Flemmich, J. F., Austrian Cons. -Gen. 

 for Chile, iii. 279, 293, 321 



Flora of Island of St. Paul, i. 312- 

 315 



Flying Fish, i. 110 



Fox (Pteropus), or Kalong Bat, 



ii. 234, 337 



Fonseca, Friar Joachim, Manila, ii. 

 302 



Foot-print of Buddha, Ceylon, i. 413- 

 415 



Fort St. George, Madras, i. 428, 474 



Fortune, Rob., naturalist, ii. 508 



Foundling and orphan children in 

 China, statistics of, ii. 421-423 



Foveau Straits, New Zealand, iii. 95 



Franciscan monks, monastery of, at 

 Manila, ii. 303 



Frangerola, harbour of, in Spain, i. 47 



French language compulsorily intro- 

 duced into Tahiti, iii. 239, 240 



naval stations in Oceania, re- 

 marks on, iii. 248-253 



protection of Tahiti, its influence 



on commerce, iii. 248 



Friedrich, Dr., philologist (Batavia), 

 ii. 185 



Friedrich's Islands (ihe Nicobars, 

 which see) 



Fukien, or Fo-Kien, province of China, 

 ii. 371 



Funchal, description of, i. 91-97 



Funeral customs of Australian abo- 

 rigines, iii. 32, 33 ; of Nicobar Is- 

 lands, ii. 31, 32 



