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 382 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 practice. 
PLATES IN VOL. I. 
Head of Pomare.to face the Vignette Title. 
Vignette Title, Fishing by Torchlight. 
Map of Polynesia.. page 1 
Bread-fruit Tree 
Fishing Canoe 
War Canoe 
Skreened Canoe ■ 
Single or Island Canoe . . . 
Adzes ......... 
Cloth Mallet. 
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 
WOOD ENGRAVINGS, 
page 37, 38 
148 
153 
157 
162 
177 
180 
