Index. 



53S 



Pakin Island, ii. 589 



Pampero (storm from the pampas), i. 

 119 



Panama, description of, iii. 424-429 ; 

 " Star and Herald," 428 ; Railroad, 

 description of, 429-438 



Panax Ginseng. See Ginseng. 



Pandanus tree, its exuberance on the 

 Nicobar Islands, ii. 64, 101 



Paomotu Islands, iii. 260 



Paora Tahuera, New Zealand chief, 

 address of, to the Expedition, iii. 102 



Papacura, plains of. New Zealand, iii. 

 170 



Papaoa, village in Tahiti, iii. 237 



Papeete, capital of Tahiti, its position, 

 iii. 197, 210 ; origin of name and 

 mode of spelling, 210-212 ; Tahi- 

 tian orators at, 212-214 ; its reli- 

 gious and social condition under 

 the French Protectorate, 213-220 ; 

 Governor's ball, 235-240 



Pareu, a Tahitian native garment, iii. 

 221-231 



Parkes, Harry, English Commissioner 

 at Canton, ii. 385 



Parliament at Tahiti, speeches in, iii. 

 212 



Patterson, Mr. M., Principal of St. 

 John's College, Auckland, iii. 152. 



Patuoni, New Zealand chief, iii. 102 



Paul, St., Island of, described, i. 267- 

 319 



Payta, harbour of, Peru, iii. 420-422 



Pearls, artificial, how made, i. 387, 388 



Pearl-fishery of Ceylon, i. 379-388 ; of 

 Panama, iii. 429 



Pearl, mother-o', procured at Paomotu 



and Gambler Islands, iii. 240 (note) 

 Pedro-talla-galla, highest mountain in 



Ceylon, i. 412 

 Peh-lah, vegetable wax of China, ii. 



518 

 Pekin, Treaty of Peace concluded at, 



ii. 388 

 Peluqueros, political party in Chile, 



iii. 306 

 Penguins, in St. Paul Island, ludicrous 



movements of, i. 281-284 

 Pettah, the, or Black quarter, Colombo, 



i. 372 

 Pfitzraaier, Dr., an eminent Sinologue, 



ii. 367, 418, 461 ; his explanation 



of Chinese written character, 526 

 Philippi, Dr., Professor in College of 



Santiago, iii. 297 

 Phormium tenax, New Zealand flax, 



iii. 145 

 Phosphorescent glow in the sea, i. 26 

 Physical and geognostic memoranda. 



See Humboldt. 

 Pia, the {Tacca Pinnatifida), Tahiti, 



iii. 244 

 Piaco, river. New Zealand, iii. 96 

 Pico Ruivo, Madeira, i. 102, 105 

 Pih-kwei, Tartar general, ii. 385 

 Piper methysticum. ' See Kawa. 

 Pisco, town in Peru, iii. 354-357 

 Pissis, Aime, geologist of Santiago, iii. 



297 

 Pitcairn Island, History of See 



Bounty. 

 Pizarro, conqueror of Peru, his corpse 



exposed to view in the catacombs of 



