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INDEX. 



Naples, visited, 271. 



Narcissus tazetta, and N. poeticus, 384. 



jonquilla, 405. 

 Nard, 379. 



Nasturtium officinale, 394, 

 Natick Tribe, 44. 



Natural History, knowledge of, among the 

 Polynesians, 72, 81. 



Navigation, origin of, 279, 286, 291. — 

 Advanced knowledge of the art, among 

 the Polynesians, 289. — Navigation of the 

 Arabian Seas, 291. 



Navigator Islands, see Samoa. 



Near-sighted individuals, among the island- 

 ers of the Pacific, 67, 166. 



Negrillo Race, 170. — Negrilloes of the East 

 Indies, 173, 174. — Inventions of the Ne- 

 grillo Race, 279. 



Negro languages, 187, 191, 196,200,226, 

 278. 



Negro Race, 182. — Europeanized Negroes, 

 182. — Arabized Negroes, 185. — Malay- 

 ized Negroes, 190. — Negro residents, at 

 the Polynesian, the Feejee, and the East 

 India islands, 184. — Negroes, figured on 

 the Egyptian monuments, 1 85. — Negroes, 

 residing in Arabia, 186, 251. 



Nelumbium, 350, 353, 358, 375, 



Nepaul, people of, 270. 



Nephelium lappaceum, 344. 



Nerium Oleander, 392. 



Nets of the ancient Peruvians, compared 

 with those of the modern Polynesians and 

 Europeans, 22. 



Nettle, sep Urtica. 



New Britain, island of, 142. 



New Caledonia, island of, 142, 145, 148, 

 168. — Hunter Island, visited, 168, 



New Caledonia of Northwest America, 33. 



New Georgia, or the Solomon Islands, 172. 



New Guinea, natives of, 115, 142, 168, 

 173. — The character of the zoological 

 productions, 303. 



New Hebrides, natives of, 170. 



New Mexico, 112. 



New South Wales, visited, 138, 



New Zealand, 78. — Contains neither quad- 



rupeds nor pasturage, 78. — An approxi- 

 mation to aboriginal writing, 81. — Eu- 

 ropean residents, 81, 82, 233, 273, 



New Zealanders, one among the crew of 

 the Vincennes, 63. — One in the Samoa 

 Group, 73, — Others, at Sydney, 80. 



New Zealand flax, see Phormium. 



Nicander, quoted, 384, 390, 394, 



Nicolaus Myrepsicus, quoted, 394. 



Nicotiana rustica, 412, 



tabacum, tobacco, 44, 308, 337,412. 



Nigella sativa, 379, 



Damascena, 407. 



Nile, its unique geographical position, 298. 



Nisqually Tribe, 29, 38. 



Nitendi Group, 172, 289. 



Nizam's Dominions, 257, 264, 266. 



Nootka, or Yookulty Tribe, 25, 28. 



Nuba, of Central Africa, 186, 201. 



Nubians, 204. 



Numida, the Guinea-fowl, 333, 345, 388. 

 Nutmegs, 178, 304, 345, 400. 

 Nux-vomica, see Strychnos. 

 N'Yambana Tribe, of East Africa, 199. 

 N'Yasa Tribe, of East Africa, 197. 

 Nyctanthes, 363. 

 Nymphoea lotus, 385. 



stellata, 352, 353, 357, 358, 369. 



cogrulea, 357, 369. 



of Zanzibar, 369. 



Oahu, in the Hawaiian Group, visited, 88, 



94, 98. 

 Oak, 381. 



Oases, four principal ones, in the Great 



Desert of the Eastern Continent, 298. 

 Oat, see Avena. 



Ochra, see Hibiscus esculentus. 

 Ocymum, 316, 328, 341, 348. 



basilicum, and O. lignosum, 387. 



sanctum, 320, 328, 363. 

 Offerings of flowers and fruits, in the Hindoo 



temples, 268. 

 Oil, poured on wounds, by Bramins, 267. 

 Okonagan, in Interior Oregon, 32. 

 Olea sativa, the olive, 363, 374. 



