INDEX. 



383 



Crusocs, Nineteenth century, 269. 



Gumming, Miss Gordon, 178. 



Curtis Island (Huon Kermadec 

 Group), 337, 338. 



Customs. (See Habits and Cus- 

 toms. ) 



Cuvu (Fiji), 38. 



Daku, Distance from Levuka, 176. 

 Dalo. (See Taro. ) 

 Damana timber, 158, 321, 330. 

 Damon, The Rev. Dr., 240. 

 Dampier, the explorer, Preface. 

 Dancing, Fijian, 114-118. 

 Danger Island, 329, 330. 

 Danidani, a Fijian shrub, 133. 

 4)arwin, The late Dr., quoted in 



regard to coral formations, 14-16. 

 David (Governor of Vavau), 309. 

 Davilai, Fijian tradition concerning, 



138, 139. 



Demerara sugar estates, 131. 

 De Peyster Island (Ellice Group), 



343. 



Devil temple, Fijian, 40, 42. 

 'Devils' (Fijian devil-worshippers), 



36, 39, 41, 59. 

 Dido, H.M.S., 24. 

 Dilo nut, its oil, 134-136, 157, 158. 

 Discovery, aided by Chinese tri- 



pang-fishers, 267, 268. 

 Doane's, Rev. E. T., Sketch of 



Ebon language, xxii. 

 Dods, Mr., 183, 192, 193, 195, 197, 



198. 



Dogfish, Chief, 272, 273, 275. 

 Doko (Fijian instrument used in 



agriculture), 98. 

 Dolphin, U.S.S., 252. 

 Dominica (Marquesas Group), 334, 



335. 



Dragon tree, 312. 

 Draiba (Levukan cemetery), 46. 

 Drek river (Fiji), 178, 179. 

 Dress. (See Costume.) 

 Drury, Mr. Charles, 168. 

 Duauru dialect, xxiii. 

 Dunn, Mr. Archibald J. , Preface. 

 D'Urville, Dumont, the Polynesian 



traveller, Preface. 

 Dutch East India Company, 240. 



Dye barks, 141, 195. 

 Dysentery, 27, 167, 218. 



Easter Island, 357-360. 



Ebon, peculiarities in language, 

 xvi., xvii. ; works bearing on the 

 language, xxii. 



Ebony, 158. 



Eddystone Island dialect, xxiii. 



Efate (New Hebrides), xxii. 



Eggs, Turtle, 283, 284. 



Eimeo or Moorea (Society Islands), 

 364, 369. 



Elephantiasis, its prevalence in 

 Samoa, 217, 218. 



Elisa, Wreck of the brig,off Fiji, 19. 



Ellice Island (Ellice Group), 343. 



Ellice Islands, probable origin of 

 dialect, xix. ; its resemblance to 

 that of Samoa, xxi.; particulars 

 concerning the group, 343, 344. 



Ellis, Mr., 62. 



Elloz, Monseigneur, 227. 



Elphinston, Mr., Preface, 193, 195. 



Emma, Queen of Sandwich Group, 5. 



English, Captain, 333. 



English, The, how regarded by the 

 South Sea Islanders, 371. 



Eno's Fruit Salt, 167. 



Entrecasteaux, M. d', 337. 



Eoa (Tonga), 286, 287. 



Erromanga, philological work on 

 dialect, xxii. 



Espiritu Santo Island (New He- 

 brides), 319. 



Eugenie, The Empress, her pearl 

 necklace, 258. 



Exports, Amount of, from Fiji in 

 1879, 141 ; from Tahiti in 1878, 

 369, 370 ; from Fanning's Island 

 per annum, 341. 



Fanning, Captain Edmund, 338, 



339. 

 Fanning's Group, 258, 259, 333, 338- 



341. 



Fanning's Island antiquities, 63. 

 Fate dialect, xxiii. 

 Fee simple, the only principle of 



land - tenure recognised in Fiji, 



172, 173. 

 Fibre, Cocoa-nut, converted into 



