xxii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



ERAMANGA—NEW HEBRIDES. 



(September 25 to 26.) 



View of a fortified village and a tree-house — Man overboard — Tedious naviga- 

 tion — A gale — Calms — At anchor in Dillon's Bay — News from land — Trade 

 in sandal-wood — Mr. Henry — Lime from coral — A bomb-sliell in the hands 

 of .savages — The Kev. ]Mr. Gordon — Hostile state of things — Two ill-dispo,sed 

 chiefs — The master of the 'Ciira^oa' attacked by natives — The village of 

 Sifu bombarded by the ' Ciuaj oa ' — A missionary who never laughed — 

 Remarkable censure of the local missionaries connected with these proceed- 

 ings against the natives — A more equitable course of action required — Notes 

 on the island — Epidemics — Missionary labours — Government — Manners and 

 customs — Religious creeds — Trade in wood and women — Productions-^ 

 Industry 294-322 



CHAPTER XXII. 



NEW . CALEDONIA— LOYALTY ISLANDS. 



(September 28 to October 8.) 



Loyally Islands — Aspect of New Caledonia^IIavannah Passage — Praslin 

 Bay — Canoes — At anchor in Port-de-France — Visit from the governor — 

 Visit returned — Madame Guillain — M. Guilhiin — Government-house and 

 gardens — The governor and the Protestant missionaries — The capital of the 

 colony — The model farm of Yahove — A new kind of plough — Coftee trees — 

 The aborigines — Religion — Manners and customs — Infamous usage of natives 

 by whites — Captain Cook's favourable notice of them — Basset, chief of 

 Yengen^IIis house in the interior — Appearance of the country — Trimly- 

 kept houses — Poles surmounted by skulls — Remarkable irrigation — Remains 

 of ancient aqueduct — Return to Sydney — Conclusion . . . 323-350 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTICES. 



BiKDS 353-394 



Reptiles 395-408 



Fishes 409-430 



Shells 431-454 



Insects 455-474 



