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INDEX. 



SAN 

 Sandal-wood of Eramanga, 298, ■i20. 



Native name for, 298 

 Sandwich Island. Sec Vate 

 Sandwich Islands, wail of the people of, 



173, note 

 Sandy Point, anchorage at, 89 

 San Just, Don Edouardo, 1 

 Santa Anna, island of, 248 

 Santa Cruz, painful affair at, narrated 



by Bishop Patteson, 13. Island, 243, 



244 

 Savaii, island of, 62, 89 

 Scorpions and snakes of Tongatabu, 135 

 Scudamore,JMr.,masterof the ' CuraQoa,' 



destroys the Tannese canoes, 203 

 Sharks devouring drowning men, native 



bas-reliefs of, 261. Tiger-sharks, off 



Niue, 18 

 Shells found in the South Sea Islands, 



437 

 Shields of the chiefs of Florida Island, 



281 

 Silver, high value of in Tutuila Island, 



58 

 Sifu, village of, bombarded by the 



'Curafoa,' 304 

 Solomon Islands, visit to the, 248 

 Somo-Somo, how it became tributary to 



Mbau, 173. View from the summit, 



174 

 ' Southern Cross,' the, 295 

 Sphyraena, or barracuda, native bas- 

 relief of, 261 

 Stalagmites found in Niue Island, 25 

 Sugar-cane, cultivation of, in the Fiji 



Islands, 189 

 Sydney Bay, 4, 10. Return to, 347 



TANNA, treatment of a missionary 

 there, 194. Visit to, 201. 

 Punishment of the natives of, 202. 

 Incidents of the attack, 203. Alarm 

 caused by it, 204. Declaration of the 

 offending chiefs, 204. Signification of 

 the name, 205. Extent and popula- 

 tion of the island, 205. Native mode 



TON 

 of warfare," 205. Climate of, 205. 

 Woodcut representing the natives 

 of, 206. Diseases of, 206. Their 

 burial of the dead, 207. Ornaments of 

 the men and women, 207. Low cha- 

 racter of their morality, 208. Their 

 cannibalism, 209. Their religion, 209. 

 Village chiefs, 209. Their marum, or 

 place of public meeting, 210. Chris- 

 tianity in, 210, 211. Languages 

 peculiar to, 211. Volcano of Asur, 

 211. Hot springs in the island, 212. 

 Natural products of, 213. Vege- 

 tation of, 213. Animals of, 213. 

 Fish of, 214. Insects of, 214. Na- 

 tive barter, 214 



Tapa cloths of the people of Niue 

 Island, 57. Of the natives of Tutuila, 

 57. Mode of preparing it, 93. Worn 

 by King Thakumbau, 160 



Tapioca of the Fiji Islands, 189 



Thakumbau, King, visits the commo- 

 dore with his queen, 159. His 

 appearance, 160. His son, 160. 

 Lieut. Pollard's description of him, 

 161. Gives the great Kava bowl to 

 the commodore, 162. Takes a con- 

 tribution of firewood to the strangers' 

 house at Mbau, 173. His brother 

 Golea and his wife, 174. 



Tie-beam, from the roof of a public 

 hall, Uji, 260. Figm'es represented 

 on it in relief, 260, 261 Seefrontisjnece 



Tinakoro, Volcano of, 244. Probable 

 shocks from, 248. 



Toa, or ironwood (Acacia heterophyUn), 

 51 



Tobacco, value of, in Tutuila, 58. 

 Grown in the Fiji Islands, 189 



Tombs at Tongatabu, 118 



Tona, disease of the natives of Vavau, 

 so called, 102 



Tonga Islands, 94. Under the sway of 

 King George, 141 



Tongatabu, island of, 4. Visit to, 105. 

 The houses of, 109. The 'Institu- 

 tion ' at, 109. Coi'poral punishment 



