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INDEX 



Chinese eaten by cannibals, 89 

 Choiseul Island natives, 133 

 Christian Missions, 120 

 Cindosoma ajax, 100 

 " Clean-skins, n 21 



Climate in Papuan hill districts, 148 

 Coast people, Papuan, 57 

 Collecting trips, early, 3, 28, 49 

 Communication between Papuan 



villages, 146 

 Cooktown, 39, 58, 60, 61, 94, 152, 



168, 169 



adventurous voyage, 132 



Coomooboolaroo Station, 5, 6, 10, 11, 



16, 21, 23, 27 

 Copra, 191 

 Couch grass, 101 

 Crocodile, a carrion feeder, 31 



eggs of, 28 



skin, vulnerable, 31 



venerated, 31 



Crocodile's bite, infection of, 322 



Crocodiles, 28, 31, 187, 209 



Croton hedges, 139 



Crowned Pigeon, 100 



Cuculus optatus, 125 



Currency, coarse salt as, 115, 153, 



154 ' 



pearl shell, 154 



shell, 73 



tobacco, 115 



Cuscus, 126 

 Cyclopsittacus virago, 85 



Delias, 86 



Diamintina River, 18 



Disaster from measles, 129 



Divers, Japanese, 6 



white, 6 



Dried human hands for ornaments, 57 



Droughts, Australia, 12 



Droving, 23 



Dugong, the, 36 



Dutch New Guinea, 179 



natives, 213 

 climate of, 220 



Dysentery, epidemics, 51, 94, 157 



Egham Islands, 72 

 Eichhorns, the, 91, 103, 159 

 Elderslie, 18 



" Ellengowan," schooner, 72 

 Emancipation of Papuan women, 

 119 



Endoliisoma amboinense tagulanum, 



93 



Engineer group, 87 

 Enumakli, chief, 66, 67 

 E. rostratum, 92 

 Erythrotriorchis doriae, 176 

 Eulacestoma nigropectus, 164 

 Eulepis epignes, 135 

 Eupetes, species of, 99 

 " Evil eye," the, 59 



Fakinellus striatus, 222 



Falco ernesti, 85 



Fergusson Island, 44, 45, 81, 85 



Ferocity of natives, 168 



Fever, 172, 216 



Fishing with poison root, 83 



use of dynamite, 83 



" Fleet Wing," 62, 63 



Gaol life, 194 



Geoffroyas aruensis cyanicarpus, 92 



German Mission Station, 185 



Solomons, 135 



Gerygone rosseliana, 92 

 Giant Rat, 126 

 Gidyea scrub, 12 

 Gira River, 59 

 Giriwa River, 177 

 Gizo, 133, 182, 190, 193, 195 

 Goats for meat, 11 

 Goodenough Island, 77, 81 

 Goodfellow, Mr., 211 

 Goodfellow Expedition, 211 

 " Gooseberry moth,' 1 2 

 Grandmotherly legislation, 108 

 Graucalus, 176 



hypoleucus louisiadensis, 93 



Grey's observations on Australian 



aborigines, 35 



Grimshaw, Miss Beatrice, 190 

 Guadalcanar, 102, 104, 136, 181, 



191 

 Gulliver, Mr., 39, 63 



Hartert, Dr., 81, 214, 230, 231 

 Head-hunting, 53 

 Health notes, 79 

 "Hekla," 111 



tragedy, 193, 198 



Helcyra chionippe, 161 

 Hellwig, Mr., 209 

 Hemiscia meeki, 82 

 Hibiscus, 106 



