CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE XXI. 



EEAMANGA—NEW HEBRIDES. 

 (Septkmbee 25 TO 26.) 



View of a fortified villag-e and a tree-Iiou-se — Man overboard — Tedious naviga- 

 tion — A gale — Calms — At anclior in Dillon's Bay — News from land — Trade 

 in sandal-wood — Mr. Henry — Lime from coral — A bomb-shell in the hands 

 of savages — The Eev. Mr. Gordon — Hostile state of things — Two ill-disposed 

 cliiefs — The master of the ' Cura9oa ' attacked by natives — The village of 

 Sifu bombarded by the 'Curafoa' — A missionary who never laughed — 

 Remarkable censure of the local missionaries connected with these proceed- 

 ings against the natives — A more equitable course of action required — Notes 

 on the island — Epidemics — Missionary labours — Government — Manners and 

 customs — Religious creeds — Trade in wood and women — Productions — 

 Industry 294-322 



CHAPTER XXII. 



NEW CALEDONIA— LOYALTY ISLANDS. 



(September 28 to Octohek 8.) 



Loyalty Islands — Aspect of New Caledonia — Havannah Passage — Praslin 

 Bay — Canoes — At anchor in Port-de-France — Visit from the governor — 

 Visit returned — Madame Guillain — M. Guillain — Government-house and 

 gardens — The governor and the Protestant missionaries — The capital of the 

 colony — The model farm of Yahove — A new kind of plough — Coffee trees — ■ 

 The aborigines — Religion — Manners and customs — Infamous usage of natives 

 by whites — Captain Cook's favourable notice of them — Basset, chief of 

 Yengen — His house in the interior — Appearance of the country — Trimly- 

 kept houses — Poles surmoimted by skulls — Remarkable irrigation — Remains 

 of ancient aqueduct — Return to Sydney — Conclusion . . . 323-8o0 



NATURAL PIISTORT NOTICES. 



