XVi CONTENTS. 
mons—Imprecations — Modes of incantation — Horrid 
and fatal effects supposed to result from sorcery—Impo- 
tency of enchantment on Europeans—Native remedies 
for sorcery — Native oracles — Buaatapena—Means of 
inspiration—Effects on the priest inspired—-Manner of 
delivering the responses—-Circumstances at Rurutu and 
Huahine—Intercourse between the priest and the god— 
Augury by the death of victims—Avugury by the stars 
and clouds—Divination for the detection of theft. 
CHAP. XV. 
FROM PAGE 382 TO PAGE 414. 
Tahitian prophets—Ancient predictions relative to the 
arrival of ships—Traditions of the Deluge corresponding 
with the accounts in sacred and profane writings— 
General ideas of the people relative to death and a 
future state—Death the consequence of Divine displea- 
sure —State of spirits—Miru, or heaven—Religious 
ceremonies for ascertaining the causes of death—Em- 
balming—The burying of the sins of the departed— 
Singular religious ceremony—Offerings to the dead— 
Occupation of the spirits of the deceased—Superstitions 
of the people—Otohaa, or lamentation—W ailing— 
Outrages committed under the paroxysms of grief—Use 
of sharks’ teeth—Elegies—The heva—Absurdity and 
barbarism of the practice. 
PLATES IN VOL. I. 
Head of Pomare . « oe . - e to face the Vignette Title. 
Vignette Title, Fishing by Torchlight. 
Map of Polynesia . B A : ; é : : 5 cue) UPAageld 
WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 
Bread fruit Tree . page 27,38 ; Tahitian Stool. . .. page189 
Fishing Canoe ... =. - .148 | Wooden Dish ...-. .191 
War (Ganoe. 6) steno (on Aoi. 953 i Dahitian, Dru) 0) vee eh 4 
Skreened Canoe -. . . . . .157 |~ Trumpet Shell . . .. . .196° 
Single or Island Canoe . . .162 | National Temple .... . 341 
Adzes . . . 2) < ss .) «177:|' Altar and Offerings; . . . ,346 
Cloth Mallet . ... . . «180 | Altarand Unus .....- .3d5l 
Tahitian Pillow .... ..189 ° TahitianIdols .. . . 355, 356 
