in the Marquesas, 344;
in Hawaii, 384 _sq._

Chiefs' language in Samoa, 173 _sqq._

Chieftainship hereditary in Samoa, 176

Children sacrificed, 75 _sq._, 81 _sq._

Christianity in Tonga Islands, 60

Circumcision, in the Tonga Islands, 81;
in the Hervey Islands, 223 _sq._;
invented by god Rongo, 224

Civil lords and sacred kings in Mangaia, 224 _sq._

Clans, gods of, in animals or other natural objects, 94, 95 _sq._

Clavel, Dr., 338, 374

Cockles, god in, 183; prayers to cockle-god, 188

Coco-nuts, god in, 183; offered to the dead, 233

Coffins shaped like canoes, 20, 353, 356, 363

Collocot, E. E. V., 65 _n._^2, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98 _n._^1, 267 _n._^2

Comedies acted in mourning, 236

Commoners, the question of their souls, 66, 85

Communistic system in Samoa, 170 _sq._

Confession of sins, 189

Cook, Captain James, 1, 9, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61 _n._^2, 63, 81, 86,
100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 111 _n._, 117, 123, 128,
129, 132, 246, 248, 249, 251, 257, 258 _n._^5, 262,
275, 277 _n._^2 and ^4, 279, 280, 282, 283, 293,
297, 304, 310, 314 _n._^3, 315, 321, 328, 331, 371,
375, 379, 382, 383, 391, 395 _sq._, 406, 407, 408

---- or Hervey Islands, 219 _sq._

Cooking in ovens of hot stones, 222, 379

Coral reefs, their formation, 55 _sq._

Corpses, sent adrift on the sea or exposed on stages, 210;
broken in pieces, 362;
flayed, 367 _sq._

Courage seated in liver, 85

Cousin marriage, 223

Creation, Hawaiian tradition of the, 393

Cremation among the Maoris, 23

Crickets, omens from, 231

Crimes, Tongan ideas about, 67

Crook, William P., first missionary to the Marquesas, 328, 349, 361,
372

Cruise, R. A., 31 _n._^2

_Curse of Manaia_, 12

Curses, Maori, 15;
Tongan, 67;
of sisters specially dreaded, 207

Customs observed at the birth of twins, 268 _sqq._
_See_ Burial customs, Ceremonies, Rites

Cuttings in mourning for the dead, 19, 208 _sq._, 231, 302, 309, 311,
353;
in Tonga, 133 _sqq._;
intention of the, 145 _sq._

Cuttle-fish, household god in, 184;
omens from, 190;
temple of, 195;
myth of the, 202 _sq._;
a god in Mangaia,228;
myth of Maui and the, 275

Dances at the birth of twins, 270 _sqq._;
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