Abdication of the king in favour of 
his new-born son, a Polynesian 
custom, iii. 99. 
Aberahama, a convert, attempt to 
murder, ii. 128. 
Accident to the author and his 
party, i. 168. 
Adams, John, the patriarch of 
Pitcairn’s Island, iii. 323. 
Adams, John, a name assumed by 
Kuakini, the Governor of Ha¬ 
waii, iv. 56. 
Admission of church members, 
preparatory teaching for, iii. 56. 
Adultery, punishment of, iii. 123, 
iv. 421; malignant jealousy, iii. 
124. 
Afareaitu, houses built for the mis¬ 
sionaries at, i. 171 ; the district 
described, ii. 211. 
Agriculture, rude state of, in Poly¬ 
nesia, i. 137. 
Ahia, or jambo ( evgenia Malac - 
censis ) of Tahiti, inferior to that 
of the Sandwich islands, i. 62. 
Aimata, daughter of Pomare, re¬ 
sides in Tahiti, ii. 135 ; is by bis 
desire brought up a Christian, 
136 ; visit from, 199 ; succeeds to 
the government of Tahiti, iii. 
262; h< r manners and acquire¬ 
ments, 289; her marriage, 291. 
Aito, or toa ( casuarina equasiti- 
folia , a forest tree, i. 131. 
Aito and Tuahine, the earliest pro¬ 
fessors of Christianity in Tahiti, 
ii. 102. 
Aitutake, conversion of, by native 
teachers, iii. 301. 
Akua mao, or shark god, i. 167. 
Alphabet, the Tahitian, introduced 
by the missionaries, ii. 71. 
Altars of idols, i. 341; iv. 96, 99, 
118,117. 
American Board of Commissioners 
for Foreign Missions, dispatch a 
party of missionaries to the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 30. 
American missionaries, their first 
arrival in the Sandwich is'ands, 
VOL. IV. 
iv. 30 ; favourable circumstances, 
ibid. ; their interpreters, 31 ; 
spelling-book prepared, ibid.; 
schools established, 32; kind re¬ 
ception of the author by, 39; 
he joins them in their labours, 
43, 48; visit of some of them to 
Hawaii, 55. 
American vessels, resort of, to the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 28. 
Anthropophagism, i. 309, 358 ; 
among the Marquesans, iii. 318. 
Anuanua, or Rainbow, the king of 
Tahiti’s state canoe, i. 155. 
Aoa, a singular tree, i. 34; legend 
as to its origin, 36. 
Apai, a game so called, i. 213. 
Apape, a forest tree, i. 30. 
Ape, a kind of arum, i. 44. 
Arairi, native baskets, i. 52. 
Arapai, a Sandwich island chief, 
iv. 372; his wife, 375. 
Archery, a sacred game in Tahiti, 
i. 217. 
Ardent spirits, distillation of, ii. 
128; the Sandwich island chiefs 
addicted to the consumption of, 
iv. 39, 44. 
Areoi society, i. 229; traditions of 
its origin, 230 ; names of the first 
members, 233; some account of 
their proceedings, 234 ; dissolu¬ 
tion of these abominable societies, 
ii. 160 ; converts from their 
members, 170, 201. 
Armitage, Mr., introduces the cot¬ 
ton manufacture into Eimeo, ii. 
207; difficulties and opposition, 
299. 
Arrow root, culture and prepara¬ 
tion of, i. 47. 
Arum, or taro, cultivation of, i. 43. 
Asiatics and Polynesians, resem¬ 
blance of, in many points, L 
115. 
Assassination of the Christians in 
Tahiti attempted, ii. 139; how 
frustrated, ibid. 
Astronomy of the South Sea . 
landers, iii. 167; traditions, .11’ 
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