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INDEX. 



Viola teydcana^ 4. 

 Virgin Islands, 9. 

 Visibility of islands at a distance, 

 48. 



VlTI, 279. 



ViTi Levu, 275. 



Volcano, of Banda, ascent of, 330 ; 

 active, at Kerguelen's Land, 

 161; active, Trachytic, 354 ; Ha- 

 waiian, eruptions of, 435 ; zones 

 of vegetation on, 40. 



Voyage, objects and duration of the, 

 I ; slowness of, 518. 



Vultures at St. Vincent Island, 

 47. 



W. 



Wai Levu, the, 278. 



Wallabies, Hush, 226, 233. 



Wallace, Mr. A. R., on the Agouti 

 at St. Thomas, 13 ; on ferns at 

 Tahiti, 450 ; on Juan Fernan- 

 dez, 479 ; on Ke Island boats, 

 327 ; on moulting of Great Bird 

 of Paradise, 325 ; on roots of 

 trees, 350 ; at Wanumbai, 322. 



Wallich, Surgeon Major, G. C., on 

 distribution of deep-sea animals, 

 507 ; on colours of deep-sea ani- 

 mals, 513 ; on icebergs, 210. 



Walrus, food of the, 178. 



Wamma Island, 317. 



Wanumbai, 322. 



Water clock at Canton, 362. 



Waterhouse, Mr. C. O., on the 

 Coleoptcni of Kerguelen's Land, 

 168. 



Waxworks in Japan, 426. 



Weapons, native, of the Admiralty 

 Islanders, 405 ; of Api, 298 ; of 

 Fiji, 291 ; of Humboldt Bay, 

 382 ; of Aru Islanders, 320, 323 ; 

 mart for, at Cape York, 311. 



Wednesday Island, 312; birds of, 



313- 

 Wellington, New Zealand, 240. 



Wells, at Admiralty Islands, 401 ; 

 at Tonga, 251 ; at St. Vincent 

 Island, 45. 



Wesleyans at Fiji, 285. 



West Indies, 10. 



Whales, 493 ; origin of tail fin of, 

 230; remarkable, with tusks, 131 ; 

 southern, mode of killing, 185 ; 

 southern Fin-back, blowing of, 

 etc., 218; southern Whalebone, 

 171 ; Ziphioid at the Falklands, 

 486 ; following ships, 9. 



Whisky Bay, 188. 



White ants, nests of, 12, 302. 



Wideawake, the, 301, 313, 489. 



Wild, Dr. J. J., 550 ; on Ker- 

 guelen's Plateau, 147; sketches 

 of gods, 409. 



Williams, Mr. Thomas, on Fiji, 

 274. 



Wilkes, Commodore, on icebergs, 

 210, 217; on the Lutaos, 343 

 (note) ; on Fiji, 275, 294. 



WOKAN ISL.\ND, 3I7. 



W^ood, drift, 317; from New Guinea 



Coast, 373. 

 Wood-lice, at St. Vincent Island, 



IVoodivardia radtcans, 30. 



Wynberg, 121-123. 



Wyville Thomson, Mount, 161. 



Z. 



Zamboanga, 341. 



Ziphioid whale, 135, 486. 



Zones of vegetation, on mountains 

 generally, 39 ; at Kerguelen's 

 Land, 168 ; at Marion Island, 

 146; at St. Jago Island, 55 ; at 

 St. Vincent Island, 39 ; at Ter- 

 nate, 339 ; in Arctic and Ant- 

 arctic regions, 195. 



Zostcra eaten by deep-sea animal, 



505- 

 Zoslcrops, httciis and flaviccps, 314. 

 Zygana inatkus, 8, 46. 



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