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Index. 



W 



War in Chile, iii. 305,'306 

 Wax-berry, shrub, Cape Colony, i. 205 

 Wagner, Dr. Moritz, his contour map 



of Isthmus of Panama, iii. 434 

 Waiiria, Lake of, Tahiti, iii. 228 

 Waikato River, New Zealand, iii. 158, 



174, 182-184 

 Wakka, New Zealand canoe, iii. 157 

 Walloby (Kangaroo rat), Australia, iii. 



36 

 Wall reefs, ii. 555-558 

 Wandering sand hills. See Medanos. 

 Wangs, or Kings of the Tai-pings, ii. 



535-537 

 Waves, mode of measuring their 



height, i. 191 ; height in Chinese 



sea, ii. 544 

 Weapons of the Nicobar aborigines, 



ii. 121 

 Weddahs, wild native race of Ceylon, 



i. 358 

 "Wellington Province, New Zealand, 



iii. 188 

 Whale fishery off St. Paul Island, i. 



288-291,319-321 ; off Puynipet, ii. 



554, 579 ; off Tahiti, iii. 248 

 Whampoa, ship purveyor, ii. 168-173 

 Whari, or New Zealand hut, iii. 161- 



163 

 White colonists. Island of Puynipet, 



ii. 561 

 Whittle's Rock, Simon's Bay, Cape 



Colony, i. 259 

 Wiener, G., Austrian Consul at Hong- 

 kong, ii. 378 

 Wild Banana. See Musa Textilis. 



Will's Harbour. See Papeete. 



Williamson, J., Supei'intendent of 

 Auckland Province, iii. 177 



Wine cultivation of Madeira, i. 76-79 ; 

 of Cape Colony, 255, 256 ; of 

 Australia, iii. 21-24 



Winnes, Dr. Ph., Missionary at Hong- 

 kong, ii. 368 



Wiremu Kingi, chief of New Zealand 

 insurgents, iii. 132 



Wong-Fun, Physician in Macao, ii. 

 406 



Worcester, Cape Colony, its charming 

 site, i. 223-225 



Wuang-po, canal of, ii. 479 



Wulongong, harbour of, New South 

 Wales, iii. 29 ; rencontre with na- 

 tives, 30 ; Walloby hunt, 36 ; noc- 

 turnal adventures among the hills 

 of, 40-42 



Wusung River, at Shanghai, ii. 410- 

 414, 479 



Yak-tien, Chinese drug stone, ii. 437 

 Yam, ii. 102 ; at Tahiti, iii. 245 

 Yang-tse-Kiang, arrival off, ii. 410 ; 



navigation of, 410-412 

 Yaws (Frambcesia), prevalence of, in 



Puynipet Island, ii. 574 

 Yeh, late Governor of Canton, ii. 383 ; 



his cruelty to the Tai-pings, 526 

 Yellow fever, i. 158, iii. 372 

 Yo-stone. See Nephrite. 



Zodiacal light, i. 480 



