INDEX. 



561 



Kii|ioupou, 349 



Kujiukele, 444 



Kusaie banana, 259 



Kuula, a fish god {src Shark god) 



Lauu. A general name f.ir what grew out of the 

 ground, but often used as the name of medi- 

 cine. The ancient Hawaiian medicines were 

 numerous, and consisted mostly of mixtures 

 of leaves of trees, bark, roots, etc. Some 

 were excedingly nauseous, while other were 

 very acrid, but the physicians depended more 

 on their enchantments, their invocations to 

 the gods and to the sacrifices offered, than to 

 the virtue of their medicines as such. 



Laaii, 221 



Laborers, Plantation, 274 



Labroid fishes, 359 



Lace-winged flv. Common, 424 



Ladder shell, 470, 464 



Ladybird beetles, 393, 416 

 beetles, Australian, 384 



Ladv-bugs, 416 



Lad'v-fish, 354 



Lae, 349, 364 



Laeloa craters. Age of, 124 



Lagoon on Laysan Island, 316, 95 



Lahua Island, 88 



La-i (Lauki), 210 



Laie, 131, 211 



Laka, Goddess of the hula, S2 



Lake, Green, on Hawaii, 160 



Lama. The name of a forest tree IMabii Sandwi- 

 censis A.DC. ) common on all the islands of 

 the group. Its very hard wood was much 

 used in building houses for the gods and 

 alwavs occurred as an alter piece in the 

 worship of laka, the goddess of the hula. 

 The reddish-yellow berries and thick, leath- 

 ery, dull green alternately arranged leaves 

 are conspicuous characters. 



Lamb tree. The, 281 



Lamellibranches, 443 



Lamellieorn beetles, 417 



Ijamp-shells, 483 



Lamps [Kukui] of stone, 70, 62 



Lanai. A bower, a shed, a piazza, a porch_. 

 The term is in very general use in Hawaii 

 being applied to any form of an open struc- 

 ture intended for shelter. 



Lanai, 135 



Dimensions of, 135 



Highest point on, 135 



Island of, 132 



Map of, 134 



of palm leaves, 236 



of hau, 201 



Position of, 100 



Lananuu (see Oracle) 



Lance-fish, 372 



Lanceolate (227). Shaped like a lance. 



Land belonged to the king, 54 

 and the king, 55 



fauna. Isolation of grai>hically ex- 

 plained, 290 

 fresh water and marine fauna {see 



Total land, etc.) 

 shells, 431 



shells , Color variation in, 432 

 shells. Important families of, 437 

 shells. Important genera of, 448 

 shells. Significance of, 121 

 shells, use of, 77 

 slide of 1868 ,159 

 Sugar, 271 

 titles, 55, 56 

 tortoise, Galapagos, 300 

 Various animals from, 291 

 Landing a sea net, 334 

 Landings {see Bavs, etc.) 

 Lanihuli peak (27S1 feet), 112, 125, 114 

 Language, Hawaiian, Character of, 41 

 The Hawaiian, 39 

 The Polynesian ami Hawaiian, 39 

 Lantana, 198, 205, 209 

 blight, 385 

 bug, 426 



butterflies, 385, 421 

 -flv, 419, 427 

 gall-fly, 385 



Imported enimies of, 384 

 insects, 383 

 Introduction of, 383 

 leaf -bug, 385 

 leaf-minor, 385 

 scale, 385 

 seed-fly, 383 

 plume-moth, 383 

 Lantern, Aristotle "s, 496 



fishes, 359 

 Lapalapa, 224 

 La Perouse, Compe de .lean Francois 



(Navigator), 97 

 La Platte tobacco, 192 

 Largo banana, 259 



Larvse (299). The earlv stages in the develop- 

 ment of any animal in which it is unlike the 

 parent in appearance. 

 Lasso cells, 480 

 Last eruption on Maui, 147 



human sacrifice {see Sacrifice) 

 Lateral band or line (351). Along the sides of 

 a fish is a line of peculiar scales called the 

 lateral line. 

 Lateral craters on Maui (indicated), 134 

 Latitude in the Pacific, 100 

 Latex defined, 283 

 occurs in ,283 

 producing trees, 283 

 Latin names, why used. In (see dlsfi No- 

 menclature) 

 Lanhala, 194, 59, 204, 211 

 fruits. Uses of, 204 

 leaf skirts, 78 

 mat, 57 



mats, how made. 72 

 mat. Materials for, 60 

 mat. Plaiting of, 60, 84 

 nuts, 204 

 trees, 150, 190 

 use of, 81, 204, 221 

 Lauia, 349 

 Lauki (La-i), 210 



Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, Landing at. 154 

 Hilo coast at, 154 



