INDEX. 



383 



Treasury Island, 53, 51, b6, 77, 

 78, 133, 144; see also under 

 Mule ; excursion to the summit, 

 7 ; physical characters of natives, 

 103, 113; chaijge in their dis- 

 position, 23 ; dwellings, 58 ; 

 tambu-liouses, 71 ; mode of 

 burial, 51 ; slaves, 34 ; cultiva- 

 tion, 81, 83; geological structure 

 of, viii. 



Tree-ferns, 283, 294. 



Treguada Island, 221, 261, 275. 



Tres Marias Islands,see Three Sisters. 

 Trichomanes, 283, 285. 

 Tridacna gigas, 76, 91, 132. 

 Trotter, Mr. Coutts, 275. 

 Tuber regium, 306. 

 Tucopia Island, 252, 277. 

 Tiduba Islet, fighting at, 30. 

 Turner, Kev. Dr. G., 76, 154, 171, 



287. 

 Tui-ner, Rev. Dr. W., 64. 

 Tjerniau, Rev. D., 71, 319. 

 Tylor, Dr., 49, 77, 171. 



U. 



Ugi Island, 52, 54, 55, 56, 124, 

 137, 139; discovery of, 222, 

 262, 267, 275; physical char- 

 acters of natives, 103, 112; 

 cannibalism, 38 ; infanticide, 35, 

 42 ; dwellings, 57 ; tambu-houses, 

 68, 70 ; flints, 77 ; geological 

 structure, viii. 



Ulaua or Ulawa Island, 71 ; dis- 



covery of, 221, 261, 266,275; 



flints, 78, 79; probable geological 



structure of, viii. 

 Ulcers, 168. 

 Unio gnppyi, 343. 

 Unios as food, 91. 

 Upheaval, evidence of great, ix., x. 

 Uraba Island, 221 ; see Ulaua. 

 Uri, 190. 



Vanikoro Island, 277. 



Varanus indicus, 91, 313. 



Vegetable drift, 291. 



Vegetables, cultivated, 82, 84. 



Vegetation, of the stream-courses, 

 282 ; of the forest, 284 ; of the 

 slopes of Faro Island, 287 ; of 

 the coast, 289 : of a coral is et, 

 289; of waste ground and of old 

 clearings, 305. 



Vella-la vella, vii. 



Venereal diseases, 177. 



Venus, transit of, in 1769, 257. 



Veru Island, 210. 



Vision, powers of, 121. 



Vitex, 285, 287, 300. 



Vocabulaiy of Bougainville Straits, 



180. 

 Volcanoes, active, quiescent, and 



extinct, vii. 



w. 



Waitz, Prof., 165. 



Wake's Island, 239, 276. 



Wallace, Mr, A., 1 1 2. 



Wallis, Capt., 258. 



Walsch, Capt., 24. 



Wanderer, j-acht, 270. 



Wano, village of, 15 36 57 68. 



Waterton, 362. 

 Wax, 93. 

 Weapons, 71. 

 V/edelia biflora, 288, 290. 

 Weeds of plantations, 305. 

 Weight of body of Solomon 

 landers, 106 ; influence of 



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