INDEX. 
475 
62; also at the Governor’s house, 
65; his danger in visiting the 
volcano of Kirauea, 243. 
Blind people, books desired by, iii. 
8; cruel usage of, 40. 
Blossom, Mr., teaches carpentering 
to the natives, and sets up cotton 
machinery in Eimeo, ii. 295, 297. 
Boki, a favourite chief of Rihoriho, 
iv. 449; his account of his voy¬ 
age to England, 450 ; letter from, 
457. 
Boki, Madame — See Liliha. 
Bookbinders, native, ii. 230. 
Bookbinding, materials for, ii. 229. 
Books in the Tahitian language pre¬ 
pared by the missionaries, ii 118, 
219, 237 ; great demand for, 166, 
219, 233; iii. 6, 11 ; substitutes 
for, 7 ; printing and bookbind¬ 
ing, ii. 220, 229. 
Borabora, idolatry relinquished in, 
ii. 166; the author s visit to, iii. 
276; the settlement Beulah, 278 ; 
new chapel, 279; geology, 280. 
Boundaries, how marked, in Ha¬ 
waii, iv. 349; in the Society 
islands, iii. 116. 
Bounty, mutineers of the, Pitcairn’s 
island colonized by, iii. 322. 
Bourne, Mr., practises printing 
at Afareaitu, ii. 246; his visit to 
Rimatara, iii. 392; its beneficial 
effects, 393. 
Boxing-matches in Tahiti, i. 208. 
Bread-fruit tree (artocarpus ), de¬ 
scribed, i. 39; qualities of the 
fruit, 41 ; uses of the other pro¬ 
ducts, 42; legend as to its origin, 
68 . 
Breakfast scene, curious, at Kairua, 
iv. 56. 
British Government, the Sandwich 
islands ceded to, iv. 28; presents 
from, to Tamehameha, 33. 
British and Foreign Bible Society, 
generously furnish the paper for 
printing the Scriptures, ii. 224. 
Broken back, native mode of heal¬ 
ing, iii. 42. 
Broomhall, Mr., a missionary, in 
danger of his life, ii. 32; his 
subsequent history, 46. 
Buaiti— See Bartimeus Lalana. 
Buhenehene, a popular game in 
the Sandwich islands, iv. 81. 
Buhia, a chief of Maeva, singular 
head dress of, ii. 224. 
Building, native style of, in the 
Society Islands, ii. 345; im¬ 
provements introduced, 346 ; in 
the Sandwich islands, iv. 18, 321. 
Bukohola, visit to the temple at, 
iv. 96. 
Bunaauia, the idolaters defeated at 
the battle of, 151; general re¬ 
ception of Christianity in conse¬ 
quence, 150. 
Burder’s Point, missionary station 
at, ii. 323; the author’s visits to, 
iii. 152, 232. 
Bure Atua, “ Prayers to God,” a 
name reproachfully given to the 
Christian converts, ii. 110; at¬ 
tempt to assassinate them, 139. 
Burial in caves, practice of, in 
Hawaii, iv. 144. 
Burying alive practised to avoid 
the trouble of attending on the 
sick, iii. 49. 
Burying-piace of the ancient Ha¬ 
waiian kings, iv. 164. 
Butler, Mr., his establishment at 
Lahaina, iv. 77. 
Buua, or puna, native name of 
swine, i. 70. 
Byron, Captain Lord, conveys the 
bodies of Rihoriho and his queen 
to the Sandwich islands, iv. 449 ; 
vi'its the volcano of Kirauea, 
255. 
Byron’s bay, in Hawaii, iv. 336. 
Calabashes, how prepared, and their 
uses, iv. 372. 
Candle-nut tree (aleurites triloba), 
its uses, iv. 373. 
Cannibalism, prevalence of, i. 309, 
358 ; among the Marquesans, iii. 
318. 
Canoes, various kinds of, i. 152, 
160, 176; native names, 152, 
160,170. 
Cape Horn, voyage round, why 
preferred to that through the 
Straits of Magellan, iii. 327. 
Capital punishment, first instance 
of, under the laws of Tahiti, iii. 
141 ; only one other instance, 
142 ; abolished on the revision of 
the laws, 195. 
Carpenter, Dr., refutation of his 
charge of Unitarianism against 
the early missionaries of Tahiti, 
ii. 182. 
Catechism, preparation of a, by 
the missionaries in Tahiti, ii. 77; 
it is printed, 236. 
