398 



INDEX. 



Wallis Island, 338. 



Washington Island (Fanning's 

 Group), 339, 340. 



' Water of the Beard,' 209. 



4 Waves of the Sea ' dance, 118. 



Wawabalavu (Fijian chief), 70. 



Webb, Mr. W. H., 214. 



Webb, Rev. A. J., quoted in re- 

 ference to measles epidemic, 

 215-217. 



Weber, Mr. Theo., 232-235. 



Wee (Fijian fruit), 54. 



Wesleyan Mission at Levuka, 19, 

 49. 



West Indies compared with Fiji, 

 163. 



Whales' teeth, used by Fijians as 

 a present to their priests, 65. 



Whitmee, The Rev. S. J., his use 

 of the term Sawaiori, x. ; descrip- 

 tion of the languages of the three 

 races of the Pacific, i.e.. Papuan, 

 xiv., xv., Sawaiori, xv., xvi., and 

 Tarapon, xvi., xvii. ; Compara- 

 tive Dictionary of Polynesian 

 language, xx., xxi. ; on the Line 

 islanders, 314 ; questioned by a 

 Nanomea islander, 344. 



Whitsunday Island, Vunmarama 

 dialect, xxiii. 



Wilkes, Commodore, 19, 67, 85, 

 96, 212, 213, 262, 263. 



Williams, Beachcomber, 257. 



Williams's, Bishop, Maori Diction- 

 ary, xviii. 



Williams, Mr., 63, 66, 76, 86. 



Wilson, Captain, 18. 



Windward Group. (See Society 

 Islands.) 



Woods, Mr., 23, 24, 58, 191. 



Woondel. (See Dilo-nut.) 



Works bearing on languages of 

 South Sea Islands, xvii. -xxi v. 



Yaka plant, 61, footnote. 



Yam, The, 98, 141, 193, 211, 

 370. 



Yap (Caroline Group), 356. 



Yasanas (Fijian territorial divi- 

 sions), 50, 91. 



Yehen or Yengen dialect, xxiii. 



Ysabel (Solomon Group), 361. 



Zoology of Fiji, 140. 



THE END. 



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