d among the Hawaiians, 383

Boxing-matches in mourning, 211

Branch plucked from sacred trees, 255 _n._^1

Bread-fruit the staple food of the Society Islanders, 249;
of the Rarotongans, 222;
and of the Marquesans, 333, 334

Breath of chief sacred, 45

Brenchley, J. L., 124, 125 _n._^1

Brown, Dr. George, 56, 161, 173 _n._^1, 201, 204, 206 _n._^1, 212,
213, 214, 216 _n._^2, 218

Buffoonery in mourning for the dead, 211

Burial, Maori modes of, 20 _sq._;
in house, 20, 27;
on a stage, 20, 21;
on a tree, 20 _sq._;
secret, 21;
and mourning, rites of, in Tonga, 132 _sqq._;
by night, 419

Burial customs in Samoa, 209 _sqq._;
in the Hervey Islands, 231 _sqq._;
in the Society Islands, 308 _sqq._;
in the Marquesas, 356 _sqq._;
in the Hawaiian Islands, 418 _sqq._

---- ground dreaded, 27

---- places (_morais_) of the Marquesans, 357 _sq._

Burying the sins of the dead, 305

Busoga, superstition as to twins in, 270

Cabri, J. Baptiste, 371

Cain, the Hawaiian, 393

Campbell, A., 385, 412 _n._^1, 415, 419, 423

Cannibalism, 26, 62, 158 _sq._;
in the Hervey Islands, 221

Canoe-shaped coffins, 20, 353, 356, 363

Canoes, Maori, 9;
Tongan, 59;
Marquesan, 337;
provided for the dead to enable them to reach the spirit land,
364 _sqq._

Caterpillars, servants of owl-god, 188

Caves, bones or bodies of dead deposited in, 22, 232, 233, 237, 312,
320 _sq._, 357, 418

Centipedes, family god in, 188 _sq._;
worshipped in Mangaia, 228

Ceremonies, magical, of Maoris, 13 _sq._;
observed at death, 19 _sqq._;
to facilitate passage of soul to other world, 24 _sqq._, 29;
magical, of Tongans, 67 _sq._;
observed for unburied dead, 205 _sq._;
of mourning in the Hervey Islands, 234 _sqq._;
at the inauguration of a king, 254 _sq._, 255 _n._^1;
over dead Areoi, 261;
after childbirth, 288;
at marriage, 288 _sq._;
for the protection of the living against ghosts, 305 _sqq._
_See_ Rites

Ceremony of anointing a king of Samoa, 177;
performed by parents of twins to fertilise plantains, 271

Chiefs descended from the gods, 29;
their souls immortal, 29;
tabooed, 41 _sqq._;
physical superiority of, 58 _sq._, 377 _sq._;
Samoan, 171 _sqq._;
deified, 204;
embalmed, 205;