INDEX 



235 



Horse, cunning of, 13 

 Horses, outlaw, 15 



and the ways of cattle, 9 

 Horses* love for cattle work, 10, 22 

 Hospitality of Papuan mountain 



tribes, 139 



Human life, indifference to, 131 

 " Humping bluey," 17 

 Hunting skill of savage races, 204, 



205, 207 

 Hurricanes, 97 

 Hyde Park, 2 



Ho, 55 



Immetalia saturata meeki, 89 



Inawa, 112 



Inland New Guinea, 137 



Inland Solomon Islands collections, 



180 

 Island River, Dutch Expedition, 216, 



219 



" Jackeroo," 12, 13 

 Johnson River, 28, 32, 34 

 Jordan, Dr., 81, 230, 231 



Kanakas, 33 



as collectors, 103 



Kangaroo-shooting, 18, 19, 20, 27, 



198, 199 

 Keetava, 77 



Keilambete Station, 21, 26 

 King Edward's death, 203 

 King snake, 102 

 Kumusi River, 159 



Labour ordinance, 53 



Larvae of Troides chimcera, 136 



Loboparadisea sericea, 222 



Loria loriae, 128 



Lorius hypoenochrous, 85 



Louisiade Group, the, 31 



Machaerirhynchus flaviventer novus, 



176 



Machaerorhamphus alcinus, 176 

 Macropygia nigrirostris, 82 

 " Magic," 58, 69, 145, 146, 189 

 Malaria, 4, 47 

 M . albigula, 92 

 Mambare River, 152, 161 

 Manna Manna, 111, 122, 133, 137, 



139 

 Manucodia comrii, 85 



"Mao herd " (marriage betrothal 



contract), 118 



Marriage by purchase, 117, 120 

 Marshall, Dr. E., 211 

 Measles, outbreak of, 127 

 Meek, Mr. W. G., 74 

 M. meeki, 143 

 Melilestes ferguss&nis, 85 

 Melirrhophete belfordi griseirostris, 



222 



Mellopitta lugubris, 128 

 Melpotes gymnops goliathi, 222 

 Merauke, 203, 208, 209, 211, 219 

 Mermaid story, 37 

 " Merrie Englande," 190 

 Methodist Mission, 66 

 Microgoura meeki, 134, 187 

 Midget wallaby, 126 

 Milionia elegans, 82 

 Milne Bay, 96, 97, 98 

 Mitchell grass, 12 

 " Mizpah," 60 



tragedy, 58 



Monarcha chalybeocephala, 85 



" Moonlighting " cattle, 22 



Moosa River tragedy, 80 



Morant, Harry, 14 



Moths'- web as head-dress, 123 



Moths, Day-flying, 46, 47 



Mound-building birds, 29 



Mountains of New Georgia, 181 



M. ula, 143 



Murderers, law-abiding, 60 



Murray, Colonel, 155 



" Murua," 89 



Myiagra nupta, 93 



" Myrtle," barquentine, 39, 61 



Myzomela forbesi, 85 



Myzomela nigrita louisiadensis, 93 



Nabudiga murdered, 166 



Nadi, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 58, 62, 85, 



96 



Naphthaline for skins, 27 

 Nasiterna nanina, 105 

 Native, carving, 226 



constabulary, the, 60 

 criers, 148 



- Dubu, 185 

 fear of dogs, 137 



fishing, 202 



houses, 45, 46, 96, 102 



labour, 50, 52, 155, 156, 157 



love of iron, the, 99 



