Part 3 — INDEX
Reading edition
Administrator, an, 8
Adornments, trumpery, 172
Adventurers, 3, 15, 16
Agricultural pursuits, 23
Aird, river, 6
Ancestor warship, 153
Anchor, 66
Anchors, jamming of, 68
Ambryn, 147, 169
Americans, 12
Aoba, 78, 79, 81, 147, 180
Armlets, 42, 51
Arrowroot, 188
Arrows, the, 180
Attack, mode of, 99
Australasian Trading Company, 16
Australia, 11, 12 aboriginal of, 26
Australians, 7
Bamboo, 20
Bananas, 22, 24, 62, 187
Baskets, 176
Beck, Louis, 72
Betel-nut, chewing of, 111
Bibles, 14
“Blackbirding,” 190
Black labour, 10
Blackmailing, 50
Boat, the labour, 188 prow, 178
Bonita, call, 115 fishing, 113
Bougainville, de, 5, 9, 10, 11, 92, 133
Bow and arrow, 133
Bracelets, 157
Bread-fruit trees, 177
British Government, 7
British New Guinea, 6, 8, 26, 30 youth of, 38
British subjects, 12
Brown, Rev. Dr., 64
Buka, 10
Bundaberg, 188
Burial ceremony, 166
Burial ground of the traders, 79, 80
Burns Philp, Messrs, 16, 29, 72, 81, 186
Bush, men of the, 22, 32
Call by bonito, 115
Canoe, 17, 23, 27, 58 buying of, 27 houses, 89
Canoes, big, 178 building of, 26, 60, 176 small, 61
Cannibalism (Sol. Is.), 95
Capes, 49
Ceremonial purposes, 54
Ceremonies, sacred, 34
Ceremony, 38, 43
Chalmers, James, 65, 198, 199, 200 death of, 204
Chester, Mr., 7
Child, carrying of, 35, 36
Children, 32, 36 games of, 33
Cicatrices, 174 raised, 107
Civilisation, 16
Clark, George, 75, 77 death of, 78
Clay, 62 for pottery making, 62
Climate, 4
Climbing fish, 64
Clubs, 28
Cocoa-nut groves, 29 oil of the, 185 palms, 183
Cocoa-nuts, 62
Coffee, 187
“Coming out,” 38
Compounds, 188
Cook, Captain, 5, 11
Cooking, 34, 111 pots, 20
Copra, 183, 185, 187 boat, 186 trade, 185
Costumes, ceremonial, 30 humour of, 173 queer, 49
Crab, van der, 6
Crocodiles, 15, 122
Cures effected, 45
Custom, another, 42
Dance costumes, 49, 52 description of festival, 51 dook-dook, 50 the fish, 49 the funeral, 128 for love-making, 54 the war, 129
Dances, 30, 49 native, 49
Dancing, 31 art of, 38 ground, the, 51
Dancing, skirt, 52
Davis, Rear-Admiral, 99
Death of a husband, 46 visit of, 46
Demits, 156
Dook-dook dance, 50
Douglas, Hon. John, 7
Draughtsmen, 131
Drawings on wood, 132
Droughts, 4
Drum-making, 38
Drums, 39, 51, 158
Drying ground, 186
Dubu, 54 dance for women, 54 house, an old, 66
Dutch, 5, 6
Dynamite fishing, 63, 117
Eade, Dick, 74
Ear-rings, grotesque, 106
Earth oven, 23
Earthenware jars, 23
Education, 13
Efaté, 153, 154, 167, 172
Effigies, 156, 157
Elevera, 17, 21, 24, 26, 27
Emigration scheme, 12
Enemies, 28
England, 12
Equal rights, 8
Erskine, Commodore, 4
Euro, 88
Evanena, 33
Evil spirits, 46, 160 wishing, fear of, 138
Expedition, hunting, head, 28 of Postillion, 6 of Trinton, 6
Explorers, 3
Faces, decorating of, 175
Faith, 168
Fanarita, 101
Feast, 29
Festival dance, description of, 51
Festivals, 30
Fiddle played by mouth, 131
Fiji, 10, 32
Fijians, 25
Fire, 19 producing of, 132
Fish, 62 climbing, 64 dance, 49 spearing of, 63, 118
Fishing, 26, 180 by bonito, 113 with dynamite, 63, 117 by kite, 116 by moonlight, 116 by nets, 62 by spears, 118 for turtles, 181
Florida Island, 102
Flowers, 104
Food, 23, 108 eating of certain, 40
France, 11, 12
“French Jack,” 11, 93 residents, 143
Fresh water, objection to, 151
Frigate bird, 57, 107
Funeral rites, 126
Funerals, 30
Furniture, 18
Games, 34 rough boyish, 34
Germans, 5
Germany, 10
Gill, Rev. William, 198
Girl’s love-letter, 43
Girls, 34
Glasgow City Mission, 199
Gorging, 91
Government House, 17 officials, 17
Granville, 16
Graveyard, 127
Great Britain, 10, 11
Great southern continent, 10
Guadalcana, 9, 92, 101
Guppy, Dr. H. B., 101, 138
Habitations, 20
Haddon, Professor, 41, 43
Hair, 25, 31, 174 arrangement of, 31 bleached, 107 bushy, 38 sale of, 32
Hanuabada, 17, 24, 26
Harbour, 16
Hardy, Mr., 27, 64, 73, 108, 109, 167
Hayes, Bully, 201
Head-hunter, notorious, 98 hunters, 16 hunting, 37, 97, 102 hunting, big expedition, 28
Heads, shaving of, 25 wanted, 102
Hebrides, 144
Heirlooms, 19
H.M.S. Fly, 6
H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 6
Honolulu, 32
“Hope,” 89, 134 altars, 136
Houses, construction of (Sol. Is.), 86 interiors of the, 149
Human beings, cooking of, 111
Hunting, 22
Hunting pigs, 120
Husband, death of, 46
Huts, 17, 20 building of, 176 interiors of, 87 of skulls, 168
Hutten, Old Harry, 74
Ibitoe, 38, 39, 166
Idols, 157
Immigrants, 9
Industry, the chief, 145
Infanticide, 102
Ingova of Rubiana Lagoon, New Georgia, 90, 98
Ingova, head-hunters of, 98
Ingova’s Euro, 98 house at Rubiana, 89
Isabel, 9, 101
Islas de Salomon, 9
Ivivu, 130
Jammed, 66
Jew’s harp, 130, 131
Kai-kai dish, 110
Kidnapped, 10, 29
Kite fishing, 116
Kolff, Lieutenant, 5
Krause, Rev. E. W., 198
Labour, 29 boat, the, 188 organised, 29 trade in New Guinea, 189
Ladder, 18
Lakatois, 59, 61 construction of, 60
Laws of marriage, 166
Leap-frog, 33
Legends, 137, 176
Leglets, 42
Le Hunte, George Ruthven, Esq., 8
Lion’s head, the, 92
Loafers, 29
Loafing, 31
Loin-cloth of tappa, 174
London Missionary Society, 196, 199
Love, 40, 41
Love charms, 44
Love-making, 37
Lovesick swain, 41
Lying, art of, 28
Macdonald, Mr., 153
Macgregor, Governor, 7, 189
M‘Ilwraith, Sir Thomas, 7
Mackay, 188
Mai, 100, 101
Malayan trepang, 118
Malays, 5
Malekula, 145, 147, 150, 154, 167, 169, 173, 176, 177, 179, 180, 184
Mambare river massacre, the, 75
Mangoes, 65, 66
Man and wife, 43
Maori method of carrying, 36
Maoris of New Zealand, 25, 44, 45, 194
Marriage, 34, 40 laws, 166 preparation for, 31 proposal of, 37
Masks, 49 construction of, 50 hideous design of, 49
Massacred, 204
Massacres, 14, 102
Mats, 18, 150, 175
Medicine men, 139
Meeting, arrangements for the, 42
Mekko district, 49
Men, burying alive of, 145
Meyer, Don Alvaro Mendana de, 9, 11
Mendana de, Islands, 9
Meyers, Dr., 6
Mineral, 3
Mission of the City of Glasgow, 199
Mission House, 17
Missionaries, 3, 7, 14, 65, 193 tales of, 194
Missionary Society of London, 196, 199
Missionary Society of Tahiti, 197
Moonlight fishing, 116
Moresby, Captain, 6
Mother, 35
Motus, 22, 23
Mourners, the chief, 128
Mourning, 30, 46 special dress, 46 universal, 126
Mouth fiddle, 131
Music, ears for, 130
Narak-burners, 164, 165 stones, 164
Native babies, 35 costume, 30 dances, 48 diet, 111 eyesight, 119 inquisitiveness, 26 instrument, 130 police, 8 police clothes and duties, 30 villages, 86
Natives, 15, 21, 23, 168 of New Guinea, 25 swimming, 67
Naturalisation papers, 12
Necklaces, 52
Nets, 117 hand, 117 fishing, 62
New Britain, 13
New Georgia, 95, 107
New Guinea, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 16, 36, 37, 47, 49, 56, 176, 184 divorce, laws of, 43 labour, trade in, 189 natives of, 25, 26, 44
New Hebrides, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 78, 79, 143, 185 settlement in, 143
New Zealand, Maoris of, 25
Nicolas the Greek, 73
Nose-rings, 106
Oil of the cocoa-nut, 185
Opossum, 121
Ornaments, 104
Outrages, 14
Outriggers, 58, 177
Over-gorging, 161
Paint, 175
Palavanua, 88
Pandean pipe, 130
Papuan, 35, 36, 37, 39 boy, coming of age, 38 dandy, 32
Paradise, veritable, 144
Pentecost Island, 179
Petty Sessions Courts, 8
Pig-a-back, 33 ceremonies, 162 hunting of, 120 sacrifices of, 155
Pile dwellings, 86
Pioneer settler, 144
Pitman and Buzacott, Messrs., 198
Planters, 10
Platform, 18, 21
Police, the, 21, 30 magistrate, 8
Port Moresby, 7, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26, 29, 61, 75 Resolution, 148 Vila, 143
Postillion expedition, 6
Pottery, 24, 61, 176 industry, the, 61 making, 26, 34
Pratt, Johnnie, 74
Preferential tariff, 12
Queensland, 7, 188 coast, 188 Government, 4, 78 sugar refining, 188
Quiros, de, 9, 10, 11
Rain-maker, the, 168 making, remarkable, 170
Rano Island, 177, 179
Raratonga, 197, 201
Religion, 124, 155
Resident magistrate, 8
Residents, French, 143
Rubiana, in, 97, 107
Sacedra, Alvaro de, 5
Sacred ideas, 182 stone, 161
Sacrifice, 29
Sacrifices of pig, 155
Sago, 61, 62
St. Christoval, 101
Sale, 32
Samari, 184
Samoa, 10, 32
San Christoval, 9
Santa Anna, 100 Catalina, 91 Cruz, 9
Sanitary arrangements, 151
Sapuna, 100
Savage song, 159 lands, magic in, 44
Savages, 13
Scratchley, Sir Peter, 7
Sea, men of the, 22
Secret rites, 28
Shaving, 107
Shed, 186
Shell-money, 164 necklaces, 105
Shields, 133
Shooting fish, 64
Silent philosophy, 36
Simbo, 127
“Sing-sing” 167 grounds, 157, 158
Skull-huts, 168
Skulls, string of, 37
Slave-dealers, 191
Solomons or New Guinea, 185
Solomon Islands, the, 9, 10, 13, 84, 86, 91, 94, 145 islanders, clothing of, 104 King, 9
Somerville, Lieut. Boyle T., R.N., 129, 167
Song, a savage, 159
Sorcerer, the, 44
South Pacific, 10 Sea Islands, 3, 13, 14 Seas, excitement of, 75 trader, 71
Spaniards, the, 11
Spanish explorers, 10
Spearing fish, 63, 118
Spears, 28 and clubs, 133
Sports, 120
Staple foods, 62
State councils, 8
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 204
Stories, amusing, 78
Streamers, 174
Street, 17
String armlet, 41
Superstition, 22, 39, 44, 45, 88, 115, 137, 163, 170
Superstitions, 14, 15, 23, 40
Surprise attack, 28, 29
Sweet potatoes, 62
Swimmers and divers, born, 32
Swimming natives, 67
Taboo, 88
Tahitian Missionary Society, 197
Taki, 106
“Tamate,” 198, 201
Tambu houses, 90, 91, 92, 152
Tanna Island, 83, 147, 148, 172, 184
Tappa loin-cloth, 174
Taros, 22, 187
“Tartan Jock,” 79, 81
Tattooing, 32, 56, 107, 174
Thatch, 20
Tierra Australis del Espiritu Santo, 11
Tight-lacing, 41
Tohunga, 44
Tohunganism, 45
Tools, the, 176
Torres, Luis Vaez de, 5, 10, 11 Straits, 5, 11
Trade beads, 172
Traders, 14, 15, 28, 186 burial-ground, 79, 80 experiences of, 81 of the South Sea, 71 risks of, 72 small, tales of the, 73
Tredacua shells, the, 105
Tree-houses, 21
Tribal wars, 22
Trinton expedition, 6
Trumpery adornments, 172
Tupusuli, 64, 65, 66
Turtle fishing, 181
Twine skirts, 54
Urio Moquru, 45, 46
Vegetable, 3
Verandahs, 21, 22
Veritable paradise, 144
Villages, 149
Volcano, 148
Wallaby, 23
War, weapons of, 132, 179
Western islands, 41
Wild animals, 17
Wild diet, 180
Willey, Dr., 109
Williams, John, 197, 204
Witchcraft, 163
Wives, plurality of, 43
Women, 29, 31 folk, 28 and girls, costumes of, 31 labour of the, 34 married, work of the, 35 workers, 175 young, 25
Worship, places of, 157
Wyllie, Dr., 64
Yacht, saving of, 67
Yams, 22, 24, 62, 187 the chief’s, 187
Yost, Prof. von, 64
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