CHAPTER III. 



CONTENTS. 



SOURCES OF INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE KINGSMILL GROUP — ISLANDS OF 

 WHICH IT IS COMPOSED — THEIR GENERAL CHARACTER— THEIR SOIL— TARO-PONDS— 

 TRADITION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE PEOPLE— ANCIENT INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE 

 ISLANDS— PHYSIOGNOMY AND APPEARANCE OF THE NATIVES— THEIR SOCIAL STATE 

 —GOVERNMENT— DESCENT OF PROPERTY — RELIGIOUS BELIEF — PRIESTS— ORACLES- 

 OMENS— PRETENDED COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS— BELIEF IN A FUTURE STATE — 

 THEIR ELYSIUM— THEIR MODE OF LIFE— THEIR CHARACTER— THEIR TREATMENT OF 

 CHILDREN, OF THE AGED, AND OF WOMEN— THEIR WARS— CANNIBALISM NOT PRAC- 

 TISED—THEIR WEAPONS — THEIR HOUSES AND CANOES — THEIR MANUFACTURES- 

 DRESS— ORNAMENTS— THEIR FOOD— THEIR MODE OF COOKING— THEIR AMUSEMENTS— 

 THEIR MARRIAGES— MODE OF GIVING NAMES— PRACTICE OF ABORTION— TATTOOING— 

 FUNERAL CEREMONIES— DISEASES— CLIMATE OF THE GROUP— EARTHQUAKES— POPU- 

 LATION— THEIR INTERCOURSE WITH STRANGERS— THEIR PRONENESS TO SUICIDE — 

 THEIR IDEA OF AN ACCOMPLISHED PERSON— CONTRAST BETWEEN PITT'S AND THE 

 OTHER ISLANDERS — DEPARTURE OF THE PEACOCK AND FLYING-FISH FROM THE 

 KINGSMILL GROUP— THEIR CREWS PUT ON SHORT ALLOWANCE-PESCADORES — KOR- 

 SAKOFF— OBJECTS REMAINING UNACCOMPLISHED - SEPARATION OF THE VESSELS- 

 LARGE QUANTITIES OF MOLLUSCiE— SHIP MAGNOLIA— OAHU— ARRIVAL AT AND DE- 

 PARTURE FROM HONOLULU— REACH COLUMBIA RIVER. 



