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huts built in, 263; souls of the dead live in, 316 Tremearne, Major A. J. N., 28 _n._ 1 Truth of the belief in immortality, question of the, 469 _sqq._ Tsiabiloum, the land of the dead, 326 Tube inserted in grave, 277 Tubes, magical, 269, 270 Tubetube, island of, 206, 209, 210 Tugeri or Kaya-Kaya, the, of Dutch New Guinea, 255 Tully River in Queensland, 130 Tulmeng, lord of the nether world, 286 Tumleo, island of, 218 _sqq._ Tumudurere, a mythical being, 207 Tumupasa, burial custom of the Indians of, 457 Turner, Dr. George, 325, 339, 369 Turrbal tribe, 146 Tuski of Alaska, burial custom of the, 456 Two Messengers, the, myth of the origin of death, 60 _sqq._ Uganda, first man in, 78; dead kings of, worshipped, 151; jawbones of dead kings of, preserved, 235; war-god of, 366. _See also_ Baganda Unburied dead, ghosts of the, 349 Unfruitful wife, mode of impregnating, 417 Unkulunkulu, 60 Unmarried ghosts, hard fate of, 464 Umatjera tribe, 68, 166 Urabunna, the, of Central Australia, 95 Vagueness and inconsistency of savage thought, 143 _Vale tambu_, the Sacred House, 438 Vanigela River, 202, 203 Vanua Lava, mountain, 355 ---- -levu, one of the Fijian Islands, 416, 417, 418, 426 Vate or Efat, one of the New Hebrides, 359, 376 Vengeance taken on enemies by means of a ghost, 258; ghost calls for, 278, 310, 468 Vetter, Konrad, 242, 244, 245, 248, 255 Vicarious sacrifices of pigs for the sick, 372, 374, 375 Victoria, aborigines of, their ideas as to natural death, 40 _sq._, 42; their beliefs as to the dead, 142; their burial customs, 145, 145 _sq._; cuttings for the dead among the, 154 _sq._ Views of human nature, two different, 469 _sqq._ Village of ghosts, 231 _sq._, 234 ---- deserted after a death, 275 Viti Levu, one of the Fijian Islands, 419, 428, 435, 445 Vormann, Franz, 228 _sq._ Vuatom, island, 70 Wagawaga, in British New Guinea, 206 _sqq._ Wainimala in Fiji, 436 Wakelbura, the, 152 Wallace, Alfred Russel, on death, 85 _sq._ War, ancestral images taken to, 310, 315; perpetual state of, 339 ---- -god of Uganda, 366 Warramunga, the, of Central Australia, 94; their totem the Wollunqua, 103 _sqq._, 108 _sqq._; dramatic ceremonies connected with totems among the, 123 _sq._; cuttings for the dead among the, 156 _sqq._; burial customs of the, 167 _sq._ Warrior ghost, 363 _sq._
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