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INDEX. 



Labour supply, 130, 223, 312, 315, 

 319, 360, 361. 



Laca (Fijian-medicinal herb), 133. 



Ladrone Islands, peopled by Tara- 

 pon race, xiv. 



Lakemba (Fiji), 12, 288. 



Lali party, A Fijian, 196. 



Lanai (Sandwich Group), 4. 



Land-transfer, in Fiji, 171-175 ; in 

 Tonga, 310. 



Language, of Fiji, 18 ; Line Is- 

 lands, 318 ; San Bernardo, 329 ; 

 Samoa, 219. 



Late (Tonga), 286, 287, 288. 



Latham's (Dr. R. G. ) ' Elements of 

 Comparative Philology,' xxiii. 



Lau (Fijian province), 50. 



Laughing jackass, 145. 



Lava-lava (Samoan waist-cloth), 220. 



Lawa-ni-mate (Fijian funeral rite), 

 81. 



Lawes, The Rev. W. G., xxi. 



Layard, Mr. E. L., 24 ; quoted in 

 reference to measles epidemic, 24, 

 25. 



Leases, their legal standing in Fiji, 

 174. 



Leefe, The Hon. R B., 161, 162. 



Leeward Islands. (See Society Is- 

 lands. ) 



Lefuga (Tonga), 286. 



Le Hunt, Mr., 38. 



Lemons, 141. 



Lemons, sweet, found in Fiji, 54. 



Leonora, The brig, 241, 242. 



Leopard beche-de-mer, 265, 266. 



Lepauni (disease), 318, 319. 



Lesseps, M. de, 336. 



Leveney, Mr., 207. 



Levuka (Fiji), its former port of 

 communication with San Fran- 

 cisco, 8 ; distance (navigation) 

 from Galoa Bay, 10 ; situation, 

 11, 43 ; arrangement, 43, 44 ; 

 hotels, shops, conveyances, prome- 

 nade, etc., 44; sports and pas- 

 times, government institutions, 

 and commercial facilities, 45 ; 

 bizarre character of population, 

 45, 46 ; banks and commercial 

 companies, 58 ; sanitary arrange-, 

 ments, statistical returns (popula- 



tion), cemetery and cricket-ground, 

 46 ; devotional institutions, 48, 

 49 ; hospital, medical staff, and 

 periodicals, 49 ; resident govern- 

 ment officials, 49, 50 ; hotels and 

 boarding-houses, 50-52 ; dietary, 

 50-54 ; bathing-place, 51 ; mos- 

 quitoes, 55, 218 ; dress, 55, 56 ; 

 ocean communication, 56, 57, 164- 

 166 ; good stores, 166 ; advice to 

 a new comer, 168. 



Liardet, Mr., H. M. Consul at 

 Samoa, 11. 



Lifu, xxiii. 



Lifuka Group (Tonga), 287. 



Likus (Fijian article of dress), 116. 



Lime-juice, 162. 



Limes, 54, 141, 324. 



Line Islands, the Kingsmill Group, 

 312, 313, 316, 318, 319 ; intoxi- 

 cant distilled by natives, its 

 effect, and the precautions it has 

 rendered necessary, 313, 314 ; 

 skill exhibited by the natives in 

 fishing, 314 ; their food, canoes, 

 arms, etc., 314 ; religious obser- 

 vances and superstitions, 314 ; 

 traditions, 314, 315 ; tattooing, 

 marriage customs, and character- 

 istics of natives, 315 ; the wages 

 they obtain in other islands as 

 labourers, 315 ; their employment 

 in Samoa, 223 ; by Messrs. Gode- 

 ffroy, 232 ; their subsequent 

 refusal to enter the service of the 

 firm, 316; King Tern Baiteke, 

 316-318 ; language, 318 ; preva- 

 lent disease, 318, 319. 



Lizards found in Fiji, 137. 



Loloku (Fijian rite), 75, 77-79. 



Loma - Loma (capital of Vanua 

 Balavu, Fiji), 12 ; visited by 

 Maafu, 20 ; trading station at, 202. 



Lomai Viti (Fijian province), 50. 



London, a Fijian's idea of, 70, 71. 



Longbeard, Captain, 272, 273, 275. 



Loo Choo Islands, 16. 



Lotooma Island, Tongan tradition 

 concerning, 298-300. 



Lotus, The schooner, 243. 



Low Archipelago. (See Tuamotus 

 Group.) 



