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INDEX. 
Warner, Mr. a surgeon, arrival of, 
ii. 77. 
Water, fresh, scarcity of, in the 
Sandwich islands, iv. 57 ; wells 
sunk by the missionaries, 65, 
103; seasonable supply of, 73. 
Waterfalls and cascades, in Hawaii, 
iv. 379. 
Waterspouts, danger from, ii. 306 ; 
deliverance, 311. 
Wauli plant of the Sandwich is¬ 
lands, iv. 109; manufacture of 
cloth from, 110. 
Wells sunk by the missionaries in 
the Sandwich islands, iv.65, 103. 
Wesleydale, mission station, in New 
Zealand, destroyed, iii. 351. 
Whalers, visit of two South Sea, 
ii. 31; the natives supplied with 
gunpowder by them, 32. 
Wild men in the interior of Ta¬ 
hiti, i. 305. 
Will, property bequeathed by, 
( tubu ) among the South Sea is¬ 
landers, iii. 115. 
Williams, Mr., visits Raiatea, ii. 
263 ; his labours there, 317, 337 ; 
visits Tahiti, 338. 
Wilson, Captain, takes out the first 
missionaries to Tahiti, ii. 4; 
visits several of the other islands, 
9; returns to England, 10. 
Wilson, Mr., driven by contrary 
winds to the Leeward islands, 
preaches there, ii. 117. 
Winds, the prevalent, in the Sand- 
wich islands, iv. 21. 
Windward islands, or Georgian 
islands, i. 7. 
Winter unknown in the Sandwich 
islands, iv. 21; heavy rain and 
variable winds, ibid ; meteoro¬ 
logical table, 22. 
Witchcraft, belief in, among the 
Polynesians, i. 361 ; attempts to 
secure themselves from the effects 
of, 364, 369. 
Wizards, various names of, i. 363. 
Wrestling-matches, i. 205. 
Writing, mode of teaching, to the 
natives, ii. 205 ; Pornare’s pro¬ 
ficiency in, iii. 252 ; general dif¬ 
fusion of, 263 ; desire of a Sand¬ 
wich island chief to learn, iv. 38. 
Writing paper, value of, in Tahiti, 
iii. 264; economy in its use, 
265 ; substitutes for, 263. 
Yam (dioscoria alata ), indigenous 
in Polynesia, i. 44; cultivation, 
45; iv. 21. 
Young, J., a seaman, his life spared 
by the Sandwich islanders, iv. 
27 ; conversations with him, 38, 
96; his friendliness, 40, 99; ac 
count of volcanic eruptions, 59 ; 
assists in the abolition of idolatry, 
127; endeavours to check in¬ 
fanticide, 327 ; the author’s resi¬ 
dence with him, 443. 
