XVI 
CONTENTS. 
mons—Imprecations — Modes of incantation — Horrid 
and fatal effects supposed to result from sorcery—Impo- 
tency of enchantment on Europeans—Native remedies 
for Sorcery — Native oracles — Buaatapena—Means of 
inspiration—Effects on the priest inspired—Manner of 
delivering the responses—Circumstances at Rurutu and 
Huahine—Intercourse between the priest and the god— 
Augury by the death of victims—Augury by the stars 
and clouds—Divination for the detection of theft. 
CHAP. XV. 
FROM PAGE 882 TO PAGE 414. 
Tahitian prophets—Ancient predictions relative to the 
arrival of ships—Traditions of the Deluge corresponding 
with the accounts in sacred and profane writings— 
General ideas of the people relative to death and a 
future state—Death the consequence of Divine displea¬ 
sure — State of spirits—Miru, or heaven—Religious 
ceremonies for ascertaining the causes of death—Em¬ 
balming—The burying of the sins of the departed— 
Singular religious ceremony—Offerings to the dead— 
Occupation of the spirits of the deceased—Superstitions 
of the people—Otohaa, or lamentation—Wailing— 
Outrages committed under the paroxysms of grief—Use 
of sharks’ teeth—Elegies—The heva—Absurdity and 
barbarism of the prgptice. 
PLATES IN VOL. I. 
Head of Pomare.to faoe the Vignette Title. 
Vignette Title, Fishing by Torchlight. 
Map of Polynesia ........... page 1 
WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 
Bread-fruit Tree . page 37, 38 
Fishing Canoe .148 
War Canoe ....... 153 
Skreened Canoe -.157 
Single or Island Canoe . . . 162 
Adzes .177 
Cloth Mallet.180 
Tahitian Pillow.189 
Tahitian Stool .... page 189 
Wooden Dish .191 
Tahitian Drums.194 
Trumpet Shell.196 
National Temple..341 
Altar and Offerings .... 346 
Altar and Unus.351 
Tahitian Idols .... 355, 356 
