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INDEX 
sion chapel, 3/6; substitutes for 
bells, 385; introduce hats and 
bonnets, 399; services on the 
Sabbath, 407 ; extension of mis¬ 
sionary stations, iii. 2; baptism 
of first converts, 14 : knowledge 
of medicine requisite in, 44; ( 
form Christian Churches, 55; 
appoint deacons, 80 ; their in¬ 
fluence in the enactment of 
laws, 134; arrival of mission¬ 
aries, 232; missionary trials, 
266; children of missionaries, 
271; native missionaries, 2S3; 
native missionary society, 264, 
270, 299 ; missionaries sent to the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 29; their 
prospects, 45 ; arrangements, 49 ; 
services, 83; tour through the 
island, 102 ; native conversation 
on the subject of missionaries, 
319. 
Missionaries’ children, establish¬ 
ment for the education of, iii. 
269. 
Missionaries’ wives, needlework 
taught by, ii. 389 ; female schools 
superintended, 318. 
Missionaries, American, their ar¬ 
rival in the Sandwich islands, 
iv. 30; their labours, 31; visit of 
some, to Hawaii, 55. 
Missionaries, Spanish, visit of, to 
Tahiti, ii. 6. 
Moa, the common fowl, domesti¬ 
cated in Tahiti, i. 74. 
Moeore, son of the king of JRaiatea, 
his rebellion, iii. 218, 226. 
Mokuohai, battle of, iv. 146. 
Monarchical and arbitrary form of 
government in the South Sea 
islands, iii. 93 ; sacredness of the 
king’s person, 10J ; mode of tra¬ 
velling, 102; national councils, 
117; in the Sandwich islands, 
iv. 411. 
Monody, translation of a, of the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 178. 
Moonlight, a journey by, ii. 246. 
Moorai, a deified shark, offerings 
to, iv. 90. 
Moorea, a name of Eimeo, i. 18. 
Moorea, a Pearl islander, labours 
to convert his countrymen, iii. 
305. 
Morokai, a volcanic island, near 
M aui, iv. 10; population, ibid; 
native teachers, ibid. 
Morokini, a barren rock near 
Maui, use to which applied, iv. 9. 
Moto-raa, or boxing, confined to 
the lower classes in Tahiti, i. 208. 
Moua tabu, a mountain in Huahine, 
iii. 5. 
Mouna Huararai, eruption of, iv. 
59; how supposed to be arrested, 
60; attempts to ascertain its 
height, 65, 107 ; ascent of, 68. 
Mouna Kea, estimate of its height, 
iv. 5, 269; Mr. Goodrich’s visit 
to, 400; other ascents of, 402, 
403; the natives refuse to ascend 
it, 404, 
Mouna Roa, estimate of its height, 
iv. 5 ; visit to, 267. 
Mountain passes, idols erected in, 
in the Sandwich islands, iv. 15. 
Mountains of Hawaii, estimate of 
their height, iv. 5 ; attempts to 
measure, 65, 107. 
Mourning for the dead, extended 
period of, in Hawaii, iv. 139. 
Murder of children —see Infanticide. 
Murder of Europeans, jealousy a 
frequent cause of, iii. 124. 
Murder of the sick, formerly prac¬ 
tised by the Society islanders, 
iii. 49 ; happy change, iv. 317. 
Musicians and dancers of the Sand¬ 
wich islands, iv. 105. 
Mutineers of the Bounty, their 
history, iii. 322. 
Mutineers, native, seizure of ships 
and murder of Europeans by, 
ii. 132, 133. 
Mythology, general view of the 
Polynesian, i. 321 ; its analogy 
to that of the ancients, 381 ; 
Ruiatea, its cradle, ii. 315; of 
the Sandwich islands, iv. 89. 
Nahe, an edible fern, i. 50. 
Nahienaena, a Sandwich island 
princess, interesting account of, 
by a Tahitian, i. 93 ; favours the 
missionary schools in Lahaina, 
iv. 9. 
Naihe, chief of Kearakekua, iv. 47 ; 
his support of the missionaries, 
138. 
Narii, or Bunaaui'a, battle of, ii. 
149 ; its effects, 159. 
National councils, in the South Sea 
islands, iii. 117.; unknown in the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 423. 
National flag of Hawaii, iv. 409. 
