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Stanley Park, Vancouver, 331.

Stephan, the, 113.

Stephansort, 151; founded in 1888, 152; the "railway," 154; tobacco factory, 155; club, 156; hospital, 157.

Stephen, the summit station of the Rockies, 333.

Stettin, S.S., 65, 70, 113, 161, 211, 266, 270; passengers, 71; stewards, 72; crew, 73; deck passengers, 92.

Stone fish or the sea-devil, 52.

Studholme, Mr., 69.

Studholme, Mrs., her collection of opals, 69.

Sudaras or crocodiles, 13.

Sugawa, Mr., 329.

Sumatra, 244, 246, 257, 266; size, 260.

Sumbawa, 243, 249.

Sunda Islands, 217; Straits of, 244, 248.

Sunday Island, 25.

Superior, Lake, 335.

Swallow, the, 125.

Sydney, 70.

Sylvia, the French sailing ship, 266.

Synanceia horrida or stone fish, 52.


Tamar, the, 298.

Tambora, 249; eruption at, 249.

Tambu or taboo, meaning of the wood, 110.

Tappenbeck, Herr, his expedition in 1898, 186.

Tarawae Island, 187.

Tasman, Commodore Abel Janzoon, 196, 203.

Temple, Sir William, 22.

Ternate Isle, 224; population, 224; cloves, 225.

Tetraodan ocettalus or balloon fish, 53.

Thiele, Herr, at Matupi, 131; decorations of his billiard-room, 131.

Thompson, Captains, 7; his stories, 9; collection of orchids, 50; expedition to Mount Cook, 55; captures a snake, 58-61.

Thursday Island, 23; population, 24; scenery, 26; vegetation, 27; amusement of natives, 33; the policeman, 35.

Tibet, 312.

Tidore Isle, 224; Peak, 224.

Tiger-hunting, story of, 160.

Timor, island of, 188, 243; number of kings, 219; lines on, 219; area, 219.

Timor Laut Islands, 220.

Toba, Lake, 244.

Tobacco, a preventive of malaria, 158.

Tocal, 218.

Todak, 236.

Tokio, 325.

Torres, Luis Vaez de, 123, 125.

Torres Straits, 19.

Townsville, 4; proposed capita of Alberta, 5; sketches of, 6.

Traitor Islands, 208.

Tribulation, Cape, 10.

Tridacna gigas, or Giant Clam, 12.

Trinity Bay, 10.

Triton Bay, 46; pearl shell industry at, 46.

Tsingtau, 268; development of, 269.

Tugari tribe, 209.

Tumahu, Mount, 223.

Tumleo Catholic Mission, 192.


Ueno, or "the Devil's Gate," 326.

Urville, Dumont d', establishes the identity of the Solomon Islands, 126.

Urville Island, d', 187.


Vahsen, Captain, 187.

Van Dam, in command of the Dutch fleet, 233.

Vancouver Island, 330; Stanley Park, 331.

Varthema, L., 257.

Victoria, Queen, reception of the news of her death in Hong-Kong, 309.

Victoria, the colony of, 203, 205.

Victoria, British Columbia, 330.

Victoria, Mount, 45, 198.

Vulcan Isle, 182.


Wahai, 222.