INDEX. 



395 



tent and populftion of the 

 group, 363, 364; Tahiti (q.v.), 

 364-366 ; the Areois Society, 

 366-368 ; moral status of the 

 natives, 368, 369; Papeete (or 

 Papeite), Moorea and Maitea, 

 369 ; nature and value of ex- 

 ports from Tahiti in 1878, 369, 

 370; products, 369, 370; com- 

 munication, 370. 



Sofatabua house, 71, 114. 



Sole, The, Fijian tradition con- 

 cerning, 138, 139. 



Solomon Group, peopled by Pa- 

 puan race, xiii. ; a guide to the 

 dialects, xxiii. ; position, extent, 

 etc., 360, 361 ; cannibalism, and 

 the labour trade, 361 ; occupa- 

 tions, habits, and customs of 

 natives, 361, 362; St. Christo- 

 val, 361,362; products, 362,363. 



Somo-Somo (Fiji), 134, 200. 



Soro ( Fijian peace offering), various 

 kinds of, 66, 67, 88. 



Soro Archipelago, 359. 



Sotomi (Samoan^chief), 222. 



Spain, no longer a colonising 

 power, Preface. 



Spaniards, their system of coloni- 

 sation, 366 ; how regarded by 

 South Sea Islanders, 371. 



Sponge fishing and cleansing, 285. 



Sports and pastimes, Fijian, 108. 



Squid, The great, 248, 249. 



South Africa, suitable colony for 

 working classes, 163. 



Star of the South, mail packet, 9. 



Sterndale, Mr., Preface, 232, 234, 

 259, 355, 365. 



Stewart, Messrs., 258, 364. 



.Strauch, Captain H., xxiii. 



Strawberry, The, 156. 



Streeter, Mr. Edwin, 258. 



Streets, Dr. T. H., 339, 340. 



Strong's Island (Caroline Group), 

 extent and population, 350 ; 

 character, habits, and customs 

 of natives, 351, 352 , ancient 

 ruins, 352. 



Sturt, Mr., 206. 



Sugar-cane, The, 6, 98, 141, 142, 

 148-153, 183, 200, 202, 211, 224, 

 225, 320, 336, 370. 



Sulu (Fijian costume), 9. 



Sunday Island (Huon Kermadec 



Group), 337, 338. 

 Superstitions, 74, 88, 209, 314. 

 Suva (Fiji), 49, 93, 206, 207, 218. 

 Suwarrow Island, 322. 

 Swanston, Robert S., 58. 

 Sweet potatoes, 211. 

 Sydney (Australia), 6, 11, 56, 165. 



Taaora, Tahitian tradition con- 

 cerning, 345. 



Taaroa (Tahitian mythology), 366, 

 367. 



Taata (Tahitian tradition), 367. 



Taboo or Tabu, Custom of, xvii., 

 80, 88, 301, 307. 



Tahaa (Society Group), 363. 



Tahiti, Grammar and Dictionary 

 of Language, xx. ; use of candle- 

 nut in, 190 ; pearl-fishing, 246 ; 

 wages obtained by Line Island 

 labourers, 315; tradition con- 

 cerning the origin of the world, 

 345 ; extent, population, and 

 configuration of the island, 364 ; 

 moral and physical characteris- 

 tics of natives, 364, 365, 366. 



' Tahitian shell,' 246. 



Taifua Belotoo (Tongan mytho- 

 logy), 304. 



Tai Levu (Fijian province), 50. 



Tali Toobo (Tongan mythology), 

 304. 



Talie Tabu (Tongan mythology), 

 292. 



Tama (Fijian salutation), 31. 



Tamarinds, 224. 



Tana dialect, Philological work 

 bearing on, xxii. 



Tandonnet, Messrs., 370. 



Tanoa (Fijian chief), 19, 75. 



Tantira (Tahiti) natives, 369. 



Tapioca, 141, 155, 311. 



Tapitaweans, 312. 



Tappa (Fijian cloth), 9, 34, 118, 342. 



Tarapon race, xii., xiv., xvi., xvii. 



Tarawau (Fijian mythology), 64. 



Taro root, 98, 141, 193, 194, 343. 



Tasman, the Dutch navigator, 18. 



Tattooing, in Dominica, 335, 336 ; 

 in Easter Island, 357 ; in Sa- 

 moa and IS'ew Zealand, 219, 220. 



