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Index. 



Negrillos or Negritos del Monte, Ma- 

 nila, ii. 293-295 



Negro-head tobacco of America, ii. 575 



Nelson, province of, in New Zealand, 

 and geological researches therein, 

 iii. 188-192 



Nephrite. See Jade. 



New Caledonia, proposition of Dr. J. 

 D. Lang to found there a German 

 settlement, iii. 15 ; attempts of the 

 French to annex same, 89, 250 



New Plymouth, province of New Zea- 

 land, iii. 188 



New year's eve at the Antipodes, iii. 

 166-168 



New Zealanders. See Maories. 



Ngara, Lament for, specimen of New 

 Zealand poetry, iii. 131 ■ 



Nicobar archipelago, ii. 1-137 



Niemann, Dr. Albert, his discovery of 

 coca in, iii. 406 



Nopal plantations. See Cochineal. 



Norfolk Island. See Bounti/, mutiny of 



North Cape, Australia, ii. 627 



North China Herald, ii. 386, 496 



"Norther," description of a, at Valpa- 

 raiso, iii. 285, 286 



Norzagaray, Don Fernando, Governor- 

 General of the Philippines, ii. 307 



Not, an aboriginal race on Puynipet 

 Island, ii. 575 



Novara, her equipment, i. 4-9 ; at the 

 dry-dock, Sydney, iii. 49 ; festivities 

 on board in honour of the birth of a 

 crown prince, 51-54 ; return to 

 Trieste, 455 ; retrospect of her ca- 

 reer, 456-460 



Nukahivva, island of, Marquesas group, 



iii. 250 

 Nunneries in Shanghai for Chinese 



ladies, ii. 435, 436 



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Observatory at Santiago de Chile, iii. 

 299 



Odd Fourth, game at cards, introduced 

 by sailors among the natives of Si- 

 k ay an a, ii. 602 



Oidium Tuckeri, Madeira, i. 78 



Onehunga, village in Auckland pro- 

 vince, iii. 97 



Opium, how prepared, ii. 154-160; 

 annual imports of, into China, 518- 

 523 ; its cost in China, 523 



boats on the Wusung, ii. 411 



smokers, ii. 157-159, 274 ; num- 



ber of, in China, 523 



Opposition line between New York 

 and California, iii. 426 



Oraki, a Maori village, iii. 147-149 



Oranges, exportations of, from Tahiti 

 into California, iii. 240 



Otahuha, village near Auckland, iii. 

 155 



Overbeck, M. Gustav, Prussian Con- 

 sul at Hong-kong, ii. 378 



Owen, Captain, his visit to the Nico- 

 bars, ii. 3 



Paarl, village of, Cape Colony, i. 219 

 Pachacaraac, ruins of, iii. 390-395 

 Piih, a New Zealand native entrench- 

 ment, iii. 117, 155 



