CONTENTS xvii 



CHAPTER VII 



GENERAL ACCOUNT OP THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS 



Description of the people Tattowing Cleanliness Clothing Ornaments 

 and head-dress Houses Food Produce of the sea Fruits Animals 

 Cooking Mafiai-making Drinking salt water Meals Women eat 

 apart from the men Pastimes Music Attachment to old customs 

 Making of cloth from bark Dyes and dyeing Mats Manufacture of 

 fishing-nets Fish-hooks Carpentry, etc. Boats and boat-building 

 Fighting, fishing, and travelling ivahahs Instability of the boats 

 Paddles, sails, and ornaments Pahies Predicting the weather 

 Astronomy Measurement of time and space Language Its resem- 

 blance to other languages Diseases Medicine and surgery Funeral 

 ceremonies Disposal of the dead Religion Origin of mankind Gods 

 Priests Marriage Marais Bird- gods Government Ranks 

 Army and battles Justice Page 127 



CHAPTER VIII 



SOUTH SEA ISLANDS TO NEW ZEALAND (THAMES RIVER) 



Waterspout Comet : its effect on natives Diary at sea Condition of ship's 

 supplies Port Egmont hens Land of New Zealand made A native 

 shot Conflict with natives Capture of a canoe Poverty Bay Natives 

 come on board Their appearance and clothing Boy seized by natives 

 Appearance of the land Occupations of the natives Bracken as food 

 Mode of fighting Religion A large canoe Natives throw stones on 

 board Coast along New Zealand Habits of natives Transit of Mercury 

 Shags Oysters Lobster-catching Heppahs or forts Thames River 

 Timber trees Page 179 



CHAPTER IX 



CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND 



Tattowing Thieving of the natives Cannibalism Rapid healing of shot- 

 wounds Native seines Paper mulberry Native accounts of their 

 ancestors' expedition to other countries Three Kings' Islands Christ- 

 mas Day Albatross swimming Mount Egmont Murderers' Bay 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound Threats of natives Corpses thrown into the 

 sea Cannibalism Singing -birds Fishing- nets Human head pre- 

 served Discovery of Cook's Straits Native names for New Zealand, 

 and traditions Courteous native family Leave Queen Charlotte's 

 Sound Tides Cape Turnagain Coast along the southern island 

 Banks' Peninsula Appearance of minerals Mountains along the west 



coast Anchor in Admiralty Bay Page 203 



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