INDEX. 



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New Hanover, xxiii. 



New Hebrides, xiii., xxii., xxiii., 

 223, 316, 319, 320. 



New Holland, 267. 



New Ireland, xiii., xxiii., 361. 



Newspapers, Fijian, 49 ; Hawaiian, 

 xix. 



New Zealand. (See also Maori.) 

 Physical characteristics of inhabi- 

 tants, ix. ; probable early settlers, 

 xii. ; peopled^ by Sawaiori race, 

 xiii. ; fallacy of some ideas con- 

 cerning, 164. 



Nichau (Sandwich Group), 4. 



Nieue. (See Savage Island.) 



Niusana trees, 209. 



Nombre de Dios, a painting at, Pre- 

 face. 



North's (Lord) Island, xxii. 



Nukahiva (Marquesas Group), 334. 



Nukufetau (Ellis Group), 234. 



Nukunivano fishing contract, 272, 

 273 



Numu'ka (Tonga), 286, 287. 



Nutele Island (Samoa), 212, 214. 



Nutmegs, 141, 155, 224, 320. 



Oahu (Sandwich Group), 2-4. 



Of'u Island (Samoa), 212. 



Ohio antiquities, 62. 



Oil-producing trees, 225. 



Olive, Captain, 38. 



Olosenga Island (Samoa), 212, 214. 



Ono Buleanga Valley (Fiji), 210. 



Oporo (Soro Archipelago), 359. 



Oratory (Samoan), 223, 224. 



Oranges, 54, 141, 156, 337, 369, 370. 



Orchids, 362. 



Orestes, The ship, 239. 



Orient S.S. Line, 165. 



Oro, Tahitian mythology, 367, 368. 



Orohena, Mount, 364. 



Orotetefa, Tahitian mythology, 367. 



Otouli (Easter Island), 359. 



Ovalau (Fiji), its area and position, 



11 ; its anchorage, 43 ; suited for 



growth of coffee, 153. 

 Oven, a Polynesian, 276. 

 Owyhee. (See Hawaii. ) 



Paahua oyster, 258-260. 

 Pacific Mail Co., 1, 2, 4, 164. 



Palaos Islands, 354, 355. 



Pali (Hawaii), 5. 



Pahnerston Island, 321. 



Palmyra (Fanning's Group), 339. 



Paina dialect, xxiii. 



Panama Canal, Preface, 336. 



Panama pearl-fisheries, 249. 



Pandanus, or screw palm, 37, 117, 

 155, 325-327,341,343. 



Pango-Pango harbour, 214-216. 



Papalagis or white men, Fijian tra- 

 dition concerning their origin, 65. 



Papeete or Papeite (Tahiti), 369. 



Papuans, works on their languages, 

 xxii., xxiii. ; their physical charac- 

 teristics, ix., x., 319 ; their origin, 

 and treatment of women, x. ; list 

 of islands they inhabit, xiv. ; ap- 

 proximate date of their migra- 

 tion, xiii. ; construction of their 

 languages, xiv., xv. 



Parrots, Polynesian, 339, 340. 



Patteson, Bishop, xxiii., 60. 



Patioli, Samoan chief, 227, 228. 



Paumotus. (See Tuamotus.) 



Peach, The, 155. 



Pea-nuts, 207. 



Pearl, H.M.S., 28. 



Pearl-fishing, in Fiji, 125; deprecia- 

 tion in value during 1867 of pearl, 

 233 ; fisheries at Nukufetau, 234; 

 in North Australia, 246 ; advan- 

 tages enjoyed by South Pacific 

 fisheries, prices obtained and 

 quality of yield, 246 ; different 

 systems under which were con- 

 ducted the fisheries at Tahiti and 

 Manilla, 246, 247 ; value of 

 fisheries generally, 247 ; fisheries 

 in the Low Archipelago, and de- 

 scription of appearance they pre- 

 sent, 247, 248 ; comparative safety 

 of Pacific pearl-fishing, 249 ; the 

 propagation of pearl-oysters and 

 their partiality for certain places, 

 249, 250 ; use made by the natives 

 of pearls and shell, 249, 250, 252 ; 

 varieties of the pearl-oyster, the 

 formation of pearls, 251, 254 ; 

 method of opening the pearl- 

 oyster, 251, 252, 255, 256 ; pearl- 

 robbers, 252 ; state of the Tua- 



