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Index. 



Tallow-tree {Stillingia Sebifera) of 



China, ii. 517 

 Tangkuban Prahu, Javanese volcano, 



ii. 248-252 

 Tanka-boat, Macao, ii. 393, 394, 406 

 Taouist sect, China, ii. 435 ; their 



convents, 436 

 Taranaki (Mount Egmont), New Zea- 

 land, iii. 1^9 ; province and tribe, 



189-191 

 Taro ( Caladium esculenturn), Puynipet 



Island, ii. 568 

 Tattooing, how performed among the 



]\Iaories, iii. 110-114 ; on Puynipet, 



ii. 572-574 

 Tau-Tai, or Governor of Shanghai, ii. 



472 ; interview with him, 472-476 

 Tawa, the {Laurus Tawa), its berries 



used by the Maories for the prepar- 

 ation of a beverage, iii. 122 

 Te-IIuhu, death-song of, specimen of 



New Zealand dirges, iii. 130 

 Te Teira, New Zealand native, the 



purchase of whose land led to the 



late wars, iii. 132 

 Tea, statistics of, ii. 504-511 

 Teijsman, J. E., Director of Botanical 



Garden of Buitenzorg, ii. 205 

 Telegraph, electric, its progress in 



Madras, i. 450 ; in Batavia, ii. 204 ; 



in Australia, iii. 43 

 Temple of the Goddess of the Sea, 



Slianghai. See Goddess of the Sea. 

 Tenukoe, the New Zealand mode of 



salutation, iii. 149 

 Teressa, one of theNicobar group, ii. 61 

 Terra Jciponica. Sec Acacia Catechu. 



Tetakaka valley, gold-fields of. New 



Zealand, iii. 190 

 Tetraodon Honkenyi (sea-devil), fatal 



effects of eating, i. 199, 200 

 Theatrical representations in China, 



ii. 486-489 

 Thomson, Dr A., anthropometrical 

 and dynamical experiments with 

 New Zealand natives, and their re- 

 sults, iii. 123-125 

 Ti plant (^Cordyline Australis) of Ta- 

 hiti, an intoxicant beverage prepared 

 from, iii. 245 

 Tien-tsin, treaty of, considered, ii. 386 

 Tiffin, the Indian lunch, i. 368 

 Tigers, prevalence of, at Singapore, ii. 



143 

 Til-tree {Or eodaphne f ceteris), i. 65 

 Tiles (Chinese weights), ii. 156 

 Tillangschong, one of the Nicobar 



group, ii. 43, 45, 84 

 Tinkal. See Borax. 

 Tjiangoer, town in Java, ii. 235 

 Tjiburum, river in Java, ii. 216 

 Tjipodas, cinchona plantation at, in 



Java, ii. 227-232 

 Tjisokan, village in Java, ii. 237 

 Tjitarum, river in Java, ii. 238 

 Toe-toe, species of New Zealand grass, 



iii. 147 

 Tombs, Island of Puynipet, supposed, 



ii. 584 

 Tom Weiry, a Sydney chief, iii. 59 

 Tong-Kadu, Catholic cathedral near 



Shanghai, ii. 445, 478 

 Tow-boats, expense of, at Hong-kong, 

 ii. 408 ; at Shanghai, 537 



