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INDEX. 



Pile-dwellings, 60. 

 Pileni Island, 277. 

 Piiigr6, M., 234, 257, 274. 

 Piper Betel, 95. 

 Pipes, tobacco, 94. 

 Pitt-Rivers, Major-Gen., 73, 74. 

 Plantains, 82 ; mountain, 89. 

 Plants, dispersal of, 291 ; list of, 



294 ; rubbish-plants, 305. 

 Pleiades, 56. 

 Plerandra, 283. 

 Poisoned arrows, 73. 

 Poisonous snake, 314. 

 Polyclonia, 334. 

 Polygamy, 44. 

 Polynesians, source of, 99 ; line of 



migration, 101. 

 Pongamia glabra, 289, 290, 305. 

 Port La Palma, 232. 

 Port Praslin, 33, 56, 66, 75, 80, 



149, 261. 



Potato, sweet, 82, 84. 



Pottery -makino:, 62. 



Pouro, St. Christoval, 100, 229, 



252 277. 

 Powell, Mr.' Wilfred, 173, 191. 

 Pricbard, Mr., on the hair of 



Papuans, 117. 

 Pritchard, Mr., 90. 

 Protective resemblances, 317, 338. 

 Pruner-Bey, Dr., on the hair of 



Papuans, 117. 

 Pi-yer, Mr.H.,on edible birds' nests, 



325. 

 Puerto de la Cruz, discovery 



of, 214 ; massacre at, 224, 



235. 

 Puerto de Nuestra Senora, 232. 

 Pumpkins,, 84. 



Pustular disease of childi-en, 175 

 Pyrazus palnstris, 91, 343.- 

 Pythia scarabreus, 343. 



Q 



QuiPU, elementary, 56. 



Quiros, 100, 248, "251, 253, 276. 



Quoy, M., 319. 



R. 



Races, Pacific, 98. 



Rainbow, sujjerstition concerning, 



124. 

 Rainfall, 355 ; registers of, 363. 

 Ramos, Isle of, 205, 219, 274, 275. 

 Rana guppyi, 315, 

 Ratonia, 285. 

 Rayleigh, Lord, on the visual 



powers of savages, 122. 

 Redcoat, labour-vessel, 39. 

 Rcdlich, Capt., 36 

 Religion, 53. 

 Reptiles, 308. 

 Resins, 66, 78 ; native names of 



resin-yielding trees widely spread, 



189. ^ 



Retes, Inigo Ortez de, 237, 275. 

 Iliedelia curviflora, 305. 

 Ivingwonii, see Tokclau ringworm. 

 Rio Gal lego, 214. 



Rio Ortega, 210, 214, 216. 



Rio San Bernardino, 216. 



Rio Santa Elena, 217. 



Rob R jy canoe, 9, 



Roberts, Mr. C, on the visual 



powers of savages, 121. 

 Rochon, Abbe, 261. 

 Rocks, volcanic, vi.; calcareous^vii.j 



of deep-sea formation, viii., ix. 

 Roo-gewein, Admiral, 256. 

 Roilin, M., 178. 

 Romill}^, Mr. H., 167. 168. 

 Roncador Reef, 199, 262, 273. 

 Ronongo Island, viii., 278. 

 Rora, chief of Ugi, 20. 

 Rubbish-plants, 305. 

 Rubiatia, see New Georgia. 

 Rumphius, on Tuber rcgium, 303; 



on edible birds' nests, 326. 

 Russell Islands, 266. 



