INDEX 
465 
Society Islands, names of natives, 84 
Given by natives to Europeans, 90 
Natives, general appearance, 127 
Oheteroa Island, 124-26 
Ornaments, 1382 
Otahah Island, 117-18, 122 
Otahite Island, 73-110, 127-78 
Pearls, 121 
Quadrant stolen, 86 
Queen of Otahite, 84, 104 
Ranks and classes, 176 
Religion and priests, 172 
Salt-water drinking, 138 
Social customs, 141 
Surf-swimming, 93 
Tattowing, 124, 128 
Thefts, 76, 83, 86, 92, 99, 108 
Tools, 116, 156 
Transit of Venus, 94 
Ulhietea Island, 113-17, 118-24 
Volcanic nature of the islands, 107, 
111 
Weather forecasts, 162 
Wrestling, 88 
Solander, Dr., 
xxxviii 
Ilness of, 371-76, 429 
Solanum, 151 
Sonchus, 237 
Sour-crout, 71 
South Sea Islands (see Society Islands), 
73-178 
Southern Continent, speculations con- 
cerning its existence, 66, 254 
Sphinx taken at sea, 44 
Spices in the Dutch East Indies, 339, 
342, 400 
Spondias, 93 
Sporing, H., illness, 874 ; death, 426 
Squalus, 14, 48, 71 
Staten Island, 48 
Sterna, 67, 70, 825, 330 
Stewart Island, 218 
Sting-rays, 177, 245, 269, 306, 318 
Sucking-fish, 14 
Sugar-canes, 390 
Sugar made from the fan-palm, 345 
Suicide of a marine, 67 
Sunbul, 396 
Surf-swimming, 93 
Swallows, 15 
Sweet sop, 393 
biographical sketch, 
TACOA, 136, 148 
Tamarinds, 392 
Taros, or cocos, 135, 228, 253, 445, 
447 : 
Tasman, A., 1., 210, 213, 216, 220-21, 
234, 300 
Tattowing (New Zealand), 186, 208, 
205, 231 
Tattowing (Society Islands), 124, 128 
Teeth, al of, among natives, 349, 
40 
Native attention to, 407 
Tellina, 146, 198 
Teneriffe, 12 
Terminalia, 396 
Terra del Fuego, 47-61 
Animals, 57 
Birch forest, 51 
Climate, 61 
Dogs, 61 
Excursion inland and sufferings of 
the party, 50 
Language, 59 
Natives, general 
habits, 58 
Plants, 48, 57 
Village, 55 
Tetragonia, 270 
Thames River, New Zealand, 200, 224 
Thespesia, 168 
Tiger's Tongue, 146 
Timor, 330, 359 
Topazes, 39 
Torres, L., li., 295 
Torres Straits, 295 
Tournefortia, 151 
Trade winds, 21, 261 
Transit of Mercury, 197 
Venus, 94 
Trichilia, 396 
Triton’s trumpet, 247 
Tropic bird, 65 
Tuberose, 400 
Tupia, 96, 108, 110, 111, 118, 121, 180, 
184, 188, 198, 205, 206, 215, 279, 
368 
Tilness and death, 369-72 
Turnagain, Cape, 189, 217 
Turtle, 288, 289, 306, 311, 389, 420 
appearance and 
ULEX, 447 
Ulhietea or Urietea (see Society Islands), 
118-17, 118-24 
Urtica, 154 
Uvaria, 399 
VaLentisn, F., li, 234 
Vegetable sheep, 209 
Venus, Transit of, 94 
Vermin in bread, 181 
Vigniatico, 7 
Vines, 7, 8, 486 
Wa tis, &., li, 63 
Waterspouts, 179, 261 
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