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319; iv. 78; his vigilance and 
faithfulness, iv. 78; his account 
of the conduct of Keopuolani, 84. 
Tauai, a mountainous island, iv. 
19; its size and population, ibid; 
ceded to Tamehameha, ibid; 
rebellion, 20 ; missionaries in, 
ibid; peculiarity of the lan¬ 
guage, ibid. 
Taumuarii, king of Tauai and 
Nihau, cedes his territories to 
Tamehameha, iv. 19; favours the 
missionaries, 47. 
Taupiti, or Oroa, a Tahitian festival, 
i. 204. 
Taura, a barren rock near Tauai, 
iv. 21 ; aquatic birds procured 
from, ibid. 
Teariinavahoroa, a young prince, 
death of, ii. 64; prejudices 
against the missionaries in con¬ 
sequence, 65. 
Tefaaora, a Christian chief of 
Rorabora, ii. 168. 
Teivaiva, Christian death of, ii. 
240. 
Temples, national, of the Polyne¬ 
sians, i. 339; destroyed in Tahiti, 
ii. 156; visit to several in the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 96, 99, 116, 
117. 
Tenure of land in the South Sea 
Islands, iii. 115; in the Sandwich 
islands, iv. 4J4. 
Teriitaria, the titular queen of 
Huahine, iii. 144; embassy to, 
147 ; approves of the code of 
laws, 157. 
Tessier, Mr., his educational la¬ 
bours, iii. 50 ; his death, ibid. 
Tetoro, a New Zealand chief, 
amiable trait of, iii. 350. 
Tetuaroa, island of, i. 19 ; a Poly-* 
nesian watering-place, 20. 
Teu, father of Pomare, death of, ii. 
62. 
Teuhe, his suit against the queen of 
Tahiti, iii. 213. 
Theft, its prevalence in Tahiti, ii. 
18—iii. 123; laws against, iii. 
177 ; punishment of, 125; res¬ 
titution of stolen goods, 77; 
retaliation, 126; its punishment 
in the Sandwich islands, iv. 420. 
Thieves, Hiro, the god of, iii. 9; 
his priest a chief of banditti, 
ibid ; converted thieves restitu¬ 
tion by, 77. 
Threlkeld, Mr., visits Raiatea, ii. 
263. 
Thurston, Mr., an American mis¬ 
sionary, iv. 39; his visit to Ha¬ 
waii, 55; preaches at Kairua 
and elsewhere, 62, 66. 
Ti root ( draccena terminaiis), i. 
64—iv. 273 ; an ardent spirit dis¬ 
tilled from, ii. 130—iv. 273 ; the 
leaves useful as fodder on ship • 
board, 274. 
Tiairi, or candle-nut tree, ( alurites 
triloba), i. 31. 
Tides in the South Sea islands, an 
exception to the theory of Sir 
Isaac Newton, i. 28. 
Tiha, a female idol of Maui, iv. 90. 
Tira, or mast, a kind of fishing so 
called, i. 147. 
Tiis, or spirits, said to be the pro¬ 
genitors of mankind, i. 111. 
Time, divisions, among the Tahi¬ 
tians. i. 87. 
Tiori, a native schoolmaster in 
Huahine, iii. 2. 
Tipaemau, a landing place in 
Raiatea, ii. 331. 
To, or sugar-cane, ( saccharum 
officinarum), indigenous in 
Polynesia, i. 64. 
Tools, of wood or stone, in Tahiti, 
i. 177. 
Topataua, small fish so called, i. 
77. 
To-toro-potaa, the god of hair¬ 
dressers, i. 136. 
Traders, groundless prejudices 
against the missionaries fostered 
by, ii. 284. 
Traditions, popular, of the Tahi¬ 
tians, i. 110. 
Translation of the Scriptures into 
the Tahitian dialect, progress 
made in the, iii. 13. 
Transportation, Tahitian system of, 
iii. 195. 
Travelling, royal mode of, in Ta¬ 
hiti, iii. 100; remark of Pomare, 
102 . 
Tree ferns, their size and beauty in 
Hawaii, iv. 62. 
Trepanning, operation of, practised 
in Borabora, iii. 43. 
Trial by jury established in Raiatea, 
iii. 143; in Huahine, 190. 
Trumpet-shell, use of the, i. 196. 
Tuahine, an early professor of 
Christianity in Tahiti, ii. 102. 
