INDEX, 
493 
the object afterwards effected in 
Huahine and Eimeo, 289. 
Surgery, native practice of, iii. 41. 
Swimming in the surf, i. 223 ; iv. 
369; its dangers, i. 224; iv. 
371 ; affecting incident, i. 225. 
Sydney, the author’s detention by 
bad weather at, iii. 334. 
Taaroa, a Tahitian deity, i. 110. 
Taaroarii, son of the king of Hua¬ 
hine, renounces idolatry,iii. 107; 
breaks the laws, and is sentenced 
to hard labour, 217; retires to 
Parea, 219; obliged to surrender, 
226; trial and sentence, 227; 
his subsequent career and death, 
233; his funeral, 243; his widow 
and child, ibid. 
Tabu, the, an essential part of the 
idolatry of the Polynesians, iv. 
385; meaning of the word, ibid; 
its antiquity, 387 ; prohibitions 
and requisitions, 389; now super¬ 
seded by the Sabbath, 390. 
Tactics, military, of the Polyne¬ 
sians, i. 284; naval, 312; of the 
Sandwich islands,iv. 152, 155. 
Taeo, king of Tauai and Neehau, 
death of, iv. 16. 
Tahaa, the chief of, receives the 
name of Pomare, and marries 
Aimata, iii. 287. 
Tahaurawe, a low volcanic island 
near Maui, iv. 9. 
Tahiti, its situation, i. 6; pronun¬ 
ciation of the name, 7, 9; size 
and general features, 11 ; geo¬ 
logical character, ibid ; general 
appearance, 15 ; soil and produc¬ 
tions, 17 ; population, 101 ; 
whence peopled, 123 ; landing 
of the missionaries, ii. 5; aban¬ 
doned, 88 ; establishment of 
Christianity, ii. 159 ; reoccupied, 
243; influence of the mission¬ 
aries in the enactment of laws, 
iii. 134; present state 137. 
Tahiti and Hawaii, traditions of 
early intercourse between, iv. 
394. 
Tahitian language, its affinity to 
that of the Sandwich islands, iv. 
36; the author preaches in it, and 
is understood, 41. 
Tahitians, their physical charac¬ 
teristics, i. 79; mental capacity, 
85; moral character, 95; former 
longevity, 99; amount of the 
population, 101; traditions as 
to their origin, 110; domestic 
habits and occupations, 128 ; 
canoes, 152; houses, 171; dress, 
178; furniture, 190; music and 
amusements, 193; poetry, 199 ; 
the Areois, 229 ; infanticide, 
249; ii. 21, 159, 328; iii. 84; 
courtship and marriage, i. 267 ; 
polygamy, 273; wars, 273 ; iii. 
228 
Tahui, a deified shark, believed to 
come to congratulate the newly 
inaugurated king, iii. 111. 
Taiana, a Hawaiian chief, death 
of, iv. 17. 
Tairi, a war god of the Sandwich 
islanders, iv. 98, 119. 
Tales and songs, fondness of the 
Sandwich islanders for, iv. 343. 
Talso, properly Opunohu, a har¬ 
bour in Eimeo, i. 19. 
Tamai, lake of, i. 19. 
Tamehameha, sovereign of the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 16 ; his 
early career, 383; his friendliness 
to foreigners, 27, 33; conquest of 
Pahu, 16; cedes his dominions 
to the British Government, 28; 
his expedient for arresting the 
course of a lava stream, 60. 
Tamauu, or ati (callophyllum ino - 
phyllum,) a magnificent ever¬ 
green. i. 82. 
Tamatafetu, death of, i. 360. 
Tamatoa, king of Raiatea, re¬ 
nounces idolatry, ii. 167; has a 
house built in the European style, 
344. 
Tanatua, song of, descriptive of the 
island of Tiapa, i. 202. 
Taraiopu, king of Hawaii, when 
visited by Captain Cook, iv. 103. 
Taro, or arum, cultivation of, i. 43. 
Taro, the mountain, cultivation of, 
in Hawaii, iv. 193; mode of 
cooking, 215. 
Tatauing, native account of its 
origin, i. 262; how performed, 
263; prohibited, iii. 217; little 
practised in the Sandwich islands, 
iv. 23. 
Taua. a warrior of Huahine, his 
speech on occasion of a rebel¬ 
lion, iii. 221 ; goes as a native 
teacher to the Marquesans, and 
then to the Sandwich islands, iii. 
