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INDEX. 



Sugar-cane, grown for chewing, 

 lo; plantations at Fiji, 279; at 

 Admiralty Islands, 401 ; wild, 

 279- 373- 



SUHM, R. VON WiLLEMOES, 23 ; OH 



Admiralty Islanders, 390; bird 

 caught in spider's web, 330; on 

 Cnrdisouia, 56 ; birds and butter- 

 flies of Tristan da Cunha, 105, 

 115; death of, 445; excursion 

 with, 347 ; papers and drawings 

 left by, 445 ; wingless fly, 167. 



Sula, capensis, 133 ; cyauops, nest 

 of, 301 ; leticogaster, 58, 301, 489 ; 

 piscatrix, 30 1, 489. 



SuLU Islands, 342. 



Survivals in Chinese and Japanese 

 funerals, 424. 



Swiss chalets, origin of, 345. 



Swallows, nesting on rocks, 125; 

 seen at sea, 57, 417 > on moun- 

 tain tops, 255, 331. 



Swifts, Tree, 252. 



Swire, H., Lieut. R.N., sketch by, 

 70. 



Sword fish, 2ig, 387, 388. 



Syi-}iphYlli(i dipsocea, 24. 



Synapta, the Admiralty worm, 431 ; 

 large, at Api, 297. 



Sydney, 230. 



Sylvia, 6, 68. 



T. 

 Table Bay, 119. 

 Table Mountain, 120; Ker- 



guelen's Land, 162. 

 Tachy petes aqiiila, lO, 71, 489; 



minor, nests of, 301. 

 Tahiti, 445. 

 Tahitians, ignorance of mountains 



b}', 450, 454 ; national air of, 



465- 

 Talaur Islands, and natives of, 



373- 



Talcgalla Lathanii, 305. 



Talpa, 126. 



Tamandua, roasted, 84. 



Tamarindits indica, 38. 



Tameness of birds in islands, etc., 

 105. 165, 182, 480. 



Tarentola, 6 ; Delalaudii, 44. 



Taro, 31, 401. 



Tattooing of Admiralty Islanders, 

 399; at Fiji, 275 ; Japanese, de- 

 scribed, 425 ; relation of, to dress, 

 356; origin of 441 (note). 



Taylor, Rev. Richard, on New 

 Zealand Lake Pas, 345. 



Teal at Kerguelen's Land, 165. 



Telplnisa, 487. 



Temperature, of air at Marion 

 Island, 147 ; in the deep sea, 

 506; high, of sea water, 318; 

 limit of, at which algae grow, 354 ; 

 maintenance of, by seals, 177 ; 

 of mountain pools at Marion 

 Island, 146 ; in the mountains 

 at Tahiti, 449 ; at Tristan da 

 Cunha, 196. 



Temples, at Admiralty Islands, 

 408 ; at Fiji, 273 ; of Horrors, 

 Canton, 362; Papuan, 386; of 

 Hawaii, 436. 



Tenerife, 2. 



Tennant, Sir Emerson, on the 

 Mermaid, 365. 



Tevcbra maailata, adze blades made 

 from, 404. 



Tcyniinalis catappa, 38. 



Termites, nests of, 12, 302. 



Ternate, 336 ; Peak of, ascended, 



338. 



Tesfiido geometnca, 131. 



Tclrastemnia agricola, 23, 24. 



Thackombau, King, burns a town, 

 267 ; interview with, 275. 



Thalassia, 3 1 1 . 



Tlialassaca glacialoides, 219. 



Theatres, Japanese, 428. 



Thomson, F.T.,Capt. R.N., amongst 

 Admiralty Islanders, 410, 412; 

 at Humboldt Bay, 382. 



Thomson, Sir C. Wyville, Director 

 of Scientific StafT, i ; on deep-sea 

 phenomena, 51 1 ; at the dredge, 

 502 ; on " Implosion," 503 ; origi- 

 nator of the Expedition, 5 •9' 

 on range of Pelagic animals, 499 ; 

 on phosphorescence, 512. 

 Three-toed Sloth, roasted, 84 ; 



habits of, 90. 

 Threshing floor in the Azores, 



3°- 

 Thwaites, Mr. G. H. K., in Ceylon, 



464. 

 Thvnnns argcniivtttatus, 46. 

 Thvrsoptei'is elegous, 466. 

 Tliysanodactyiiis bilincatiis, 72. 

 Tliysaiiosoon, 347. 

 Tidore, 337. 

 Tillcca nioschata, 144. 

 Tizard, T. H., Stafr-Coir. R.N. 318 ; 



