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INDEX. 



for working classes, 163 ; pearl 

 fisheries on north coast, 246 ; 

 first named by Spaniards, 267. 



Ba (Fijian province), 50, 207, 210. 



Ba River (Fiji), Battle on banks of, 

 69. 



Bamboo, used in Fijian house-build- 

 ing, 92, 93. 



Bananas, 54, 98, 141, 156, 205, 337, 

 343. 



Banking Companies, ' The Fijian ' 

 and 'New Zealand,' 57, 58 ; Le- 

 vukan, 58. 



Banks Islands, xxiii. 



Banyan tree, 275. 



Barley, 224. 



Barrack, Captain, 177 ; quoted in 

 reference to measles epidemic,. 

 27, 28. 



Barracouta, H.M.S., 222. 



Barrier reefs, their formation, 14, 

 15 ; examples, 17. 



Bath, Mr., 179, 180, 182. 



Batimona (Fijian mythology), 65. 



Battle of the Beach, The, 190, 191. 



Bau (Fiji), its dialect, xxiii. ; work 

 on dialect, xxii. ; average velocity 

 of the wind, 12, 378 ; King Ca- 

 cobau (q.v.), 18 ; an episode in 

 the history of ^Bau, 19 ; distress 

 of the inhabitants from measles 

 epidemic, 26 ; its political impor- 

 tance, situation, etc., 31, 209; 

 Tongan tradition concerning, 300, 

 301 ; meteorological observations 

 at, 377, 378. 



Bauro dialect, xxiii. 



Beachcombers, 218, 256, 257, 260- 

 263, 336, 337. 



Beche -de - mer, found in all the 

 lagoon islands of Pacific, 263 ; 

 various names by which it goes, 

 263 ; its appearance, form, habits, 

 etc., 264 ; different varieties, 264- 

 266 ; its value per ton in China, 

 266 ; virulent nature of the poison 

 it discharges ; its growth and gre- 

 garious habits, 266, 267 ; the de- 

 mand in China, 267 ; Chinese 

 fisheries, 267, 268 ; variations in 

 the quality of the supply, 268 ; 



curious characters engaged in the 

 trade, 268-270 ; method of collect- 

 ing and curing the fish adopted 

 by the regular traders, 270-272, 

 275-278 ; labour contracts with 

 natives, 272, 273 ; life at a fishery, 

 273-275 ; precautions necessary in 

 shipping, 278 ; artifice resorted to 

 by fishers, 279 ; various, 125, 140, 

 160, 161, 245, 317, 321, 322, 330, 

 337, 342, 354, 355, 356. 



Belcher, Sir Edward, 335. 



Belladonna (plant), 225, 226. 



Benga Island (Fiji) conquered by 

 Maafu, 21 ; Fijian tradition con- 

 cerning, 64. 



Bete (chief of Vanua Levu), 21. 



Bethell. Messrs. Chas. and Co., 16ft, 

 166. ' 



Bherincj, The, 212. 



Bible, The, translated into Hawaiian, 

 xix. ; Pacific ideas concerning its 

 teaching, etc., 269, 270. 



Biblical history, parallel in Fijian 

 tradition, 61, 62 ; in Tongan, 305, 

 306. 



Billyard, Mr., 201. 



Bird (Beachcomber), 256, 257. 



Birds of Fiji, 137, 138. 



' Bismarck of Pacific ' (term applied 

 to Maafu), 20. 



Bismarck, Prince, 237, 239. 



Black, Mr., 183, 187, 190, 191, 193. 



Bligh, Captain, 18. 



'Blows.' (Sec Hurricanes.) 



Boat Building. (See Canoe Build- 

 ing.) 



Bolivian coin, 236. 



Bolotoo (Tongan paradise), 292, 303, 

 304. 



Borabora (Society Group), 363. 



Bose ni Tikina (Fijian council), 94, 

 126. 



Bose vaka Turanga (Fijian council), 

 94. 



Bose vaka Yasana (Fijian council), 

 94, 126. 



Botanical Gardens, their introduc- 

 tion into Fiji suggested, 154. 



Bougainville Island (Solomon 

 Group), 361. 



Bo wring, Sir John, 158. 



