INDEX. 



381 



s. 



Sabo, Cuadalcanar, 215. 



Sago palms, statiou of, 83 ; native 

 names of, 189 ; leaves for thatch- 

 ing, 58, 71; extraction and pre- 

 paration of sago, 83, 87, 90 ; 

 sago also yielded by the Cycas, 

 90, and Caryota, 91. 



St. Christoval, discovery of, 222, 

 227, 229, 2i8, 275; native 

 names of island, 100; physical 

 character of natives, 103, 112, 

 114, 118, 119, 120; bush-tribes, 

 14; head-hunting, 15, 18; can- 

 nibalism 35-38 ; female chastity, 

 43; dwellings, 57 ; tambu-liouses 

 67-69 ; weapon?, 72-75 ; worked 

 flints, 77 ; cooking, 86; vegetable 

 food, 84 ; legends of apes, 335 ; 

 geologicul structure, vi. 



St. George's Island, 211, vi. 



San Bartolomeo Islands, 238, 275. 



Sandfly, H.M.S., 11, 17. 



San Francisco, Isle of, 239, 276. 



San German Island, 209. 



San Juan Island, 222, 227, 275. 



San Lucas, Cape, 243. 



San Marcos Island, 212, 275. 



San Nicolas Island, 211, 275. 



Santa Anna Island, discovery of, 

 231, 262, 266 ; physical cliar- 

 acters of natives, 103, 112; chiefs, 

 19; villages at war, 18; trad- 

 ing in human flesli, 36 ; mode of 

 burial, 53 ; tambu-house, 70 ; 

 grinding slabs, 77 ; crocodiles, 

 91 ; land and freshwater shells, 

 337 ; geological structure, viii. 



Santa Catalina Island, discovery 

 of, 230, 262, 266 ; physical 

 characters of natives, 103, 112, 

 120; chiefs, 42; tambu-house, 

 69. 



Santa Cruz Islands, discovery of, 

 249 ; lost, 252 ; re-discovei'ed, 

 259. 



Santiago Island, 222, 227, 229. 



San Urban Island, 222, 223. 



Sapium indicum, 88. 



Sapuna. village of, 18, 53, 67, 70, 

 93. 



Savo Island, 73, 132; identical 



with Sesarga, 209, 215, 268, 274, 

 275 ; language, 185 ; geological 

 characters, vii. 



Sctevola Kcenigii, 290, 305. 



Schizmatoglottis, 25, 88. 



Scitamiuee, 283, 288, 294. 



Scorpions, 328. 



Seasons, temperature of, 361. 



Sebastian Vizcaino, Bay of, 243. 



Seemann, Dr., 90, 91, 319. 



Selaginellte, 2S5. 



Selwyn, Bishop, 15, 141. 



Semper, Prof., on erosion of fresh- 

 water shells, 340 ; on Neritina), 

 341. 



Serpentines, vi., vii. 



Sesarga, 209, 210, 215, 268, 274, 

 275. 



Sham fight, 75. 



Sharks, 9 ; deification of, 70; carved 

 figures of, 53, 68, 70. 



Shell-fish as food, 91. 



Shell-money, 38, 134. 



Shells, land and fresh-water, see 

 Mollusca. 



Shields, 75. 



Shortland Islands (see also under 

 Gorai and Kaika), physical cliar- 

 acters of natives, 103, 113 

 dwellings, 58; tambu-houses, 71 

 cultivation, 81 ; modes of burial 

 51 ; pit containing flints, 80 

 canoea formerly with sails, 149 

 excursion to the north - west 

 coast, 6 ; geological structure, 

 viii. 



Shortland, Lieut., 262, 278. 



Sick, treatment of, 164. 



Sikyana Islands, 187, 276. 



Simbo Island (Eddystone Island), 

 59, 66, 72, S6, 134; chief, 14; 

 vocabulary, 185 ; head-hunting, 

 16; fisli-hooks, 156; measure- 

 ments of natives, 113; mode of 

 burial, 52 ; misconception of the 

 names Eddystone and Simbo, 

 278 ; fumaroles, 86 ; geological 

 ch;iractei', vii. 



Simpson, Capt., R.N., visit to Trea, 

 sury Island, 23. 



Sinasoro, 4, 25, 59, 71. 



