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Index. 



mission of, near Caltura, Ceylon, i. 

 369, 401 



Malacca Straits, navigation in, ii. 132- 

 135 



Malayta, Island of, Solomon group, ii. 

 596 



Mamaku {Cyathea Medullaris), the 

 tree-fern, specimens in New Zea- 

 land, iii. 122 



Mandioca flour (Brazil), i, 175 



Mangatawhiri, river in New Zealand, 

 iii. 164, 165 



Mangrove forest at Puynipet, ii. 563 



Mangrove swamps in the Nicobars, ii. 

 72 



Manila hemp. See Abaca. 



Manila, stay at and description of, ii. 

 290-310, 342-349 



Manluena, or exorciser of evil spirits 

 among the Nicobarians, quackery 

 of the, ii. 70 



Manukau hills (New Zealand), excur- 

 sion to the, iii. 150 



Maoris, or Mauris, aboriginal inhabit- 

 ants of New Zealand, speculations 

 on their past and future, iii. 97-110 



Maori chiefs, reception of by the gov- 

 ernor, iii. 136-138 



king, iii. 135 



meeting in Drury, iii. 136 



poetry, specimens of, iii. 129- 



132; proverbs, 127-129 



Marine currents, i. 55-57 



Mass meeting of natives of New Zea- 

 land, iii. 99-106 



Matavai, native village in Tahiti, iii. 

 222 



Maury, Commander, U.S.N., his sea- 

 charts, i. 54, 107, 114 



Meadows, J. A. T., government inter- 

 preter at Shanghai, ii. 473 



Meal, imports into Brazil from Austria, 

 i. 175 



Medanos, wandering sandhills in Peru, 

 iii. 350 



Medical school in Lima, iii. 374, 375 



Meester Cornells Bazaar, near Batavia, 

 ii. 274 



Megabalu, Island of, Nicobar group, 

 ii. 1 



Megamendoeng, pass of, in Java, ii. 

 211 



Melepilla, town in Chile, iii. 311 



Melori (Pandanus), bread of the Ni- 

 cobarians, ii. 65 



Menu, the Hindoo lawgiver, i. 435 



Meridian of 180°, crossing the, iii. 194 



Meri-Meri, New Zealand war-club, 

 iii. 104 



Meroe, island of, Nicobar group, ii. 82 



Merrimac, U.S.N., iii. 417 



Messina, return to, iii. 451 



Metelenien, harbour of, in Puynipet 

 island, ii. 553 ; aboriginal race on 

 Puynipet, 575 



Miiiu-Tze, a wild race in China, ii. 461 



Miliani, Father, Catholic missionary 

 in Ceylon, i. 370, 402 



Military library in Manila, ii. 342 ; 

 hospital in Batavia, 187 



Milk, human, sold in China for vaccine, 

 ii. 438 (note) 



Missionaries, Protestant, in Puynipet 

 Island, ii. 563 ; Catholic and Pro- 



