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INDEX.

Abomination, buto, p. 31.
Abortion, 229.
Acting, 342.
Admission to Clubs, 105.
—to Mysteries, 80.
Adoption, 25, 27, 42, 51 note.
Adultery, 243.
Agnatic descent, 29.
Alite, 298, 325.
Alligators, see Crocodiles.
Ambrym, 13, 72, 84, 144, 174, 288
—note, 306, 332, 337, 355.
Amulets, 121, 134, 184.
Anaiteum, 123.
Animism, 123.
Antiquity, 48.
Apes, anthropoid, 19 note, 354.
Araga, see Pentecost Island.
Arrows, Poisoned, 215, 306.
Arts of life, 290.
—Decorative.
Atai, 250.
Atolls, 17.
Aurora Island, Maewo, 6, 25, 86, 112, *143, 168, 182, 199, 201, 240, 291, 298, 309, 313, 319, 323, 333, 340, 352, 369.
Australian Mysteries, 70.
Avoidance, 43, 232.

Badges, 75, 82, 87, 110, 112.
Bamboo Knife, 315.
Bananas, 319.
Banks' Islands, 2, 3, 4, 7 note, 16, 23, 24, 29, 35, 43, 54, 63, 72, 75, 104, 123, 139, 146, 151, 174, 181, 198, 211, 214, 216, 219, 225, 229, 231, 236, 239, 245, 265, 298, 306, 311, 313, 318, 319, 322, 325, 333, 334, 340, 342, 348, 353, 354.
Bastards, 236.
Bauro, 4 note, 6 note.
Belief in Magic, 193.
Bellona Island, 2, 16, 313, 322.
Betel nut, 1, 9 note, 351.
Betrothal, 237, 238.
Bice, Rev. C., 241 note, 301 note, 304 note.
Bird's-nest Fern, 265, 277, 279.
Birgus latro, 19.
Birth, 230.
Biu Island, 19.
Bligh, 4, 7 note.
—Island, see Ureparapara.
Bonesetters, 198.
Bonito, 179, 233.
Bougainville, 3.
Boundaries, 65 note.
Bows, 8, 304.
Bowls, 316.
Breadfruit, 83 note, 319.
Brenchley, Mr., 5, 122, 295, 299 note.
Bridge of Dead, 257.
Brothers and Sisters, 36, 232.
Bugotu, 30, 135, 180, 196, 256, 299, 300, 302, 318, 343, 345.
Bull-roarers, 80, 98, 342.
Burial, 254, 257, 258, 261, 263, 267, 270, 278, 284, 287, 288 note.
Burning alive, 347.
— the dead, 263.
Burying alive, 288, 347.
— in sea, 254, 258, 262.
— wives, 257.
Buto, 31.

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