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index: 



Sinimi, see Gleichenia. 



Skin, colour of, 120; prevailing 

 disease of, 169. 



Skull measurements, 111. 



Slavery, 3-. 



.Smith, Mr. E., on the land and 

 fresh-water shells, 336, 344. 



Snakes, 313. 



Soil, cliara'.'ters of, x. 



Solomon Islander, typical charac- 

 ters of a, 102, no. 



Songs, 140. 



Sorcery, 54, 163. 



Southern continent, supposed dis- 

 covery^ by Gallego, 248 , by 

 Qiiiro3, 252 ; by Roggewein, 



z,0 I . 



Span of arms, 109. 



Spears, 72. 



Spinal disease, 175. 



Spirits, evil, 50, 53. 



Sproul, Mr., 91, 310 ; his wind and 



rain records, 362, 363. 

 Spurges, 305. 

 Squall, black. 353. 

 Stature, 104, 115. 

 Stephens, xMr., 18, 37, 56, 92, 124, 



157, 176, 306, 335. 



Stewart Islands, see Sikyana. 



Stirling Island, viii. 



Stone, Mr. 0. C, 80, 135. 



Stone-boiling, 86. 



Stone implements, polished, 76, 

 120. 



Stones, grinding, 6, 77 ; cooking- 

 stones, 58, 77. 



Strabismus, 177. 



Submersion, experiments on, of lull, 

 329 ; of Neritinse, 339 ; of Lit- 

 torina scabra, 351 ; of a monitor- 

 lizard, 313. 



Suenna, 57. 



Sugar-cane, 84. 



Sulagina Bay, 38. 



Sun-burns, 362. 



Sun-shades, 1 39. 



Superior, barque, massacre of crew 

 of, 23. 



Superstitions, 53, 78, 124, 153, 

 165. 



Surville, 33, 56, 80, 149, 261, 

 269. 



Suspicion, an inherent quality, 31. 



Swallow Islands, 277. 



Symonds, Liout., 314. 



Syphilis, 177. 



Taboo or Tambu ban, 32 ; tanibu 

 murks, 32. 



Tacca pinnatifida, 89, 290. 



Tactics in war, 75. 



Taki, the Wano chief, 15, 20. 



Tambii-hoiise, 35, 53, 67. 



Taro, 82, 84. 



Tattooing, 135. 



Taucalo Island, 277. 



Taumaco Island, islands in the vic- 

 inity of, 251, 276. 



TempLraturc, 361, 366, 367; sus- 

 ceptibility of natives to slight 

 changes, 178. 



Temples, see 'lambu-house. 



Terminalia catappa, 85, 87, 290, 

 • 292. 



Terre des Arsacides, 262. 265, 269. 

 Tliermometricul observations, 361, 



366, 367. 

 Thespesia populnca, 124, 289, 290, 



292, 305. 



Thigh-twisting, 154. 



Three Sisters' Islands, viii.. 58; dis- 

 covery of, 222, 261, 275. 



Tienhoven Island, 257. 



Tin, discovery of, vii. 



Tinakula Island, 277. 



Tita, see Parinarium laiuiniim. 



Tobacco-smoking, 94 ; introduction 

 of tobacco, 94. 



Tokelau Ringworm, 169 ; its dis- 

 tribution, 172. 



Toma, village of, 25, 59, 71. 



Tomahawiis, 75. 



Tomimas, Faro chief, 25, 46. 



Tonali Harbour, 28. 



Topinard, M., 102, 105, 109. 



Torches, 66. 



Torre, Bernardo de la, 237, 275. 



Torres, 251, 252, 



Tournefortia argent ea, 290, 305. 



Trading amongst natives, 27. 



Tragedy, a domestic, 28. 



