CONTENTS. 



raniration- Differences in the Species or 

 Races on Different Islands Tameness of 

 the Birds Fear of Man, an Acquired 

 Instinct 270 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Pass through the Low Archipelago Tahiti 

 Aspect Vegetation on the Mountains 

 View of Eimeo Excursion into the 

 Interior Profound Ravines Succession 

 of Waterfalls Number of Wild Useful 

 Plants Temperance of the Inhabitants 

 Their Moral State Parliament Convened 

 New Zealand Bay of Islands Hippahs 

 Excursion to Waimate Missionary 

 ; Establishment English Weeds now run 

 wild Waiomio Funeral of a New Zea- 

 land Woman Sail for Australia 292 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Sydney Excursion to Bathurst Aspect of 

 the Woods Party of Natives Gradual 

 Extinction of ithe Aborigines Infection 

 generated by Associated Men in Health 

 Blue Mountains View of the Grand Gulf- 

 like Valleys Their Origin and Formation 

 Bathurst, general Civility of the Lower 

 Orders State of Society Van Diemen's 

 Land Hobart Town Aborigines all 

 Banished Mount Wellington King 

 George's Sound Cheerless Aspect of the 

 Country Bald Head, calcareous Casts of 

 Branches of Trees Party of Natives- 

 Leave Australia 



CHAPTER XX. 



Keeling Island Singular Appearance 

 Scanty Flora Transport of Seeds Birds 

 and Insects Ebbing and Flowing Wells- 

 Fields of Dead Coral Stones transported 

 in the Roots of Trees Great Crab Sting- 

 ing Corals Coral-eating Fish Coral 

 Formations Lagoon Islands, or Atolls- 

 Depth at which Reef-building Corals can 

 live Vast Areas interspersed with Low 

 Coral Islands Subsidence of their Foun- 

 dationsBarrier Reefs Fringing Reefs 

 Conversion of Fringing Reefs into 

 Barrier Reefs, and into Atolls Evidence 

 of Changes in Level Breaches in Barrier 

 Reefs Maldiva Atolls; their Peculiar 

 Structure Dead and Submerged Reefs- 

 Areas of Subsidence and Elevation Dis- 

 tribution of Volcanoes Subsidence Slow, 

 and Vast in Amount ,3$, 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Mauritius, Beautiful Appearance of Great 

 Crateriform Ring of Mountains Hindooe 

 St. Helena History of the Changes in 

 the Vegetation Cause of the Extinction of 

 Land-snells Ascension Variation in the 

 Imported Rats Volcanic Bombs Beds 

 of Infusoria Bahia Brazil Splendour 

 of Tropical Scenery Pernambuco Singu- 

 lar Reef Slavery Return to England 

 Retrospect on our Voyage 351 



INDEX MINMMMMM.K ..... 371 



