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INDEX. 



Taumata. (See Skull-cap.) 



Ta'u Olosenga Island (Samoa), 212. 



Taviuni (Fiji), 12, 16, 153, 155, 

 198, 199-202. 



Taxes, how levied in Fiji, 120-129; 

 the amount collected in 1879, 

 131. 



Tea, 154, 155, 225. 



Teak, 158. 



Tern Baiteke, King, 234, 316-318. 



Tennessee, Cave skeletons found 

 in, 62. 



Terano Hau (Easter Island crater), 

 359. 



Thake (disease), 318, 319. 



Thurston, Mount, 177. 



Thurston, Mr. J.B., Preface, 23, 24, 

 49,58, 120, 122, 155, 180,181, 191. 



Tidal waves, so-called, 16. 



Ti-it-iti, Samoan tradition con- 

 cerning, 346, 347. 



Tikina, Fijian territorial division, 

 91. 



Timber, Fiji, 156-160 ; Palmerston 

 Island, 321. 



Times, The, newspaper, 337. 



Timothy, Roko, 24, 30. 



Toad, The, 266. 



Tobacco, 98, 155, 207, 211, 224, 



225, 336. 



Tobi. (See Lord North's Island.) 



Tofoa (Tonga), 287, 288. 



Tofua (Tonga), 286, 287. 



Togo Ahu (Tongan chief), 289, 290. 



Tokelau dialect, xix. 



Tokelau or Union Islands, xxi., 8, 

 223, 312. 



Tomatoes, 54. 



Tommy, One-legged, 180, 181. 



Tonga Group, peopled by Sawaiori 

 race, xiv. ; vocabulary of lan- 

 guage, xix. ; Fijian tradition 

 concerning Tongan origin, 65 ; 

 existence of Sarsaparilla plant, 

 133 ; Capt. Cook, 286 ; position 

 and extent of the group, 286 ; 

 the principal islands, 286-288; 

 population, 287; moral character- 

 istics of natives, 286, 288 ; Ton- 

 gan history, 288-294 ; treatment 

 of missionaries, 294, 295 ; ancient 

 invocation of gods and supposed 



inspiration 1>f priests, 295, 296 ; 

 Tongan hospitality, and canni- 

 balism, 297 ; old traditions, 298- 

 301, 303-306, 346; rank and 

 chiefship, 301, 302; treatment 

 of the old and of women, 302 ; 

 Marriage, divorce, and human 

 sacrifice, 306 ; funeral cere- 

 monies, 306-308 ; the present 

 condition of Tonga, 308, 309 ; 

 The government and religion, 



309, 310 ; roads, police force, 

 and enforced military service, 



310, 311 ; treaties, 311 ; trade, 



311, 312; friendly feeling of 

 natives towards the English, 

 336. 



Tonga Island (Tongan Group), 301. 



Tonga, a medicinal preparation, 

 137. 



Tongaloa (Tongan mythology), 304, 

 305. 



Tongatabu (Tonga), 286, 287. 



Toobo (Tongan tradition), 305. 



Toires, the discoverer, Preface. 



Torquemada, biographer of Fer- 

 nando Quiros, Preface. 



Tortoise-shell, 125, 356. 



Totoga Valley (Fiji), 51. 



Tovi-Tovi (Fijian chief), 182. 



Tracy Island (Ellice Group), 343. 



Trader, Description of a Polyne- 

 sian, 328, 329. 



Traditions, Fiji, 61, 62, 64, 65, 138, 

 139; Line Islands, 314, 315; 

 Samoa, 344 - 350 ; Sandwich 

 Group, 3; Tahiti, 366, 367; 

 Tonga, 298-301, 303-306; Tua- 

 motus, 62. 



Tread way, The late Mr,, 239,240. 



Treaty or agreement for bechc-de- 

 mer fishing, 272, 273. 



Treaty between Sandwich Group 

 and United States, 6. 



Trenches dug by Ellice islanders, 

 343. 



Tripang. (See Seche-de-mer.) 



Tuamotus Group, or Low Archi- 

 pelago, peopled by Sawaiori 

 race, xiv. ; position of group, 

 extent, population, description 

 of the natives, their religion, 



