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INDEX 



Native outrages, 193 



standard of morality, 120 



telephone system, 146 



tobacco pipes, 48 



vengeance, 94 



very old, 134 



wicker work industry, 184 



women, misunderstandings over, 



117 



Natives, childlike, 108, 159 



and value of pearls, 92 



friendly, 114 



ingenuity of, 141 



in hill districts, 145 



shoot butterflies with bows and 



arrows, 140 



sympathetic collectors, 142 



unfriendly, 223 



wooing the, 223 



Natural History Museum, Kensing- 

 ton, 4 



Navigate, learning to, 75 



Navigation in South Sea Islands, 44 



Nearly battered to death, 84 



Nearly lost at sea, 93 



" Nerves," 75 



Nests, turtle, 204 



Nets made with spiders* webs, 140 



New Forest, 2, 3, 39, 41 



New Georgia, 101 



New Guinea, 4, 8, 10, 30, 38, 39, 43, 

 57, 76, 202 



cattle-ranching, 100 



climate of, 39 



climate on hills, 114 



method of making fire, 116 



natives of, 43, 44, 54, 117 



purse, 43 



thousands of languages, 122 



womenfolk, 43, 106, 117, 120 



New Hebrides boys, 99 



North-west monsoon, 60, 97 



Obscene images, 177 



Oceania, 4 



Oetakwa River, 210, 211, 213, 217 



Ogyris meeki, 97, 98 



Okuma, 113, 114, 122 



Opodiphthera sciron, 120 



Ora Bay, 171, 172 



Ornithoptera alexandrae, 161 



blue, 88, 91 



chimcera, 142, 143 



meridionalis, 98 



Ornithoptera victoriae, 105 



Outcast tribes, 134 



Outfitting equipment, 41, 121 



" Overlanding," 23, 24 



Overstocking, 12 



Owen Stanley ranges, 107, 137, 165, 



173 



Owgarra, 150 

 Owl, new, 104 



PacJiycephala alverti, 93 



gamblei, 126 



dubia and fortis, 86 



Pandanus leaf, 43 

 Papilio, 98 



laglaizei, 97, 175 



mendana acous, 187 



priamus poseidon, 87, 124 



weiskei, 114 



" Papua for the Papuans," 155 



Papuans' love of feathers, 122 



Paradigalla brevicauda, 221 



Paradisea Decora, 78, 81 



Parolia carolae meeki, 214 



Peak Vale Station, 21 



Pearl divers, 92 



Pearling industry, 6 



Phonygammus hunsteini, 85 



" Pidgin " English, 154, 183 



Pig-shooting, 27 



Pinarolestes, 176 



" Pioneer," the cutter, 44 



Pitta, the, 34 



P. anerythra, 105 



Pitta finschi, 81, 85 



P. inexpectatus, 105 



P. mackloti, 125 



Pitta meeki, 91, 92 



P. priamus urvillianus, 87 



P. rosseliana, 92 



Pneumonia, 130, 160 



Podargus intermedius, 81, 85 



Port Moresby, 111, 127, 149, 171, 



194, 201 



Pouri-pouri, 70, 71, 103, 144 

 Prehistoric race, 188 

 Pseudoptynx solomonensis, 105 

 Pteridophora alberti, 222 

 Ptilopus letvisi vicinus, 85 

 Ptilotis praeripna nigritergum, 222 



Recruiting boys, 152, 153 

 Redcliff Station, 12, 13, 15 

 Relics of an older people, 176, 177 



