CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



A Traveller's Difficulties — Islands of which Science has no ken — Bush- 

 Walking a Tedious Process — Ascent of Stream-Courses — Heavy 

 Annual Rainfall — Native Companions — Mysterious Influence of the 

 Fragrant Weed — Odd-looking Party of Geologists — A Night on the 

 Summit of Treasury Island — ^Experiences in a Piob Eoy Canoe — 

 Narrow Escape from Drowning — .Nature of the Work performed by 

 the Ofiicers of Survey — An Apparent Injustice ... pp. 1-12 



CHAPTER II. 



GOVERNMENT HEAD-HUNTING SLAVERY CANNIBALISM. 



Hereditary Chieftainship — St, Christoval — Coast Tribes and Bush Tribes — 

 Their unceasing Hostility — Head-Hunting and Head-Money — 

 Greater Power of the Chiefs of Bougainville Straits — Gorai, the Short- 

 land Chief — How the Treasury Islanders became our Friends — Fauro 

 and its Chief — Choiseul Bay — In the calmest Seas there are oc- 

 casional Storms — A Tragedy, in several Acts — Hostilities between 

 Alu and Ti-easury — Vce Feminis ! — Tambu Ban — Slavery, an easy 

 Servitude if it were not for one grave Contingency — A Purveyor of 

 Human Flesh — Cannibalism — A Bea — Fattening for the Market 



pp. 1.3-40 



CHAPTER III. 



THE FEMALE SEX POLYGAMY MODES OF BURIAL, &,C. 



Position of the Female Sex — Infanticide — The Women are the Cultivators 

 — A Plea for Polygamy — Marital Establishments — Kaika, the 

 principal Wife of the Shortland Chief — Her Death — The Obsequies 

 — Modes of Burial — Superstitious Beliefs — Sorcerers — Method of Re- 

 cording Time — The Pleiades ... ... ... ... pp. 41-56 



CHAPTER IV. 



DWELLINGS — TAMBU-HOUSES WEAPONS TOOLS. 



Villages — Houses — Pile-Dv.'ellings — Mat-Making — Domestic Utensils — 

 Pottery Manufacture — Modes of Producing Fire — Torches — Tambu- 

 Houses — Deification of the Shark — Weapons — Polished Sfone Im- 

 plements — Ancient Worked Flints — Whence did they come 1 — Who 

 were the Artificers 1 ... ... ... ... ... pp. 57-80 



