eral, 139, 353 _sq._;
of widow, 353, 354

Dancing among the Marquesans, 340 _sq._

---- -places of the Marquesans, 340 _sq._

Danger Island, 230

Darwin, Charles, on coral reefs, 55

De Sainson, 112

D'Urville, J. Dumont, 11, 58, 110, 123, 357 _n._^3, 359 _n._^3, 373

Dead, disposal of the bodies of the (Maori), 20 _sqq._;
buried in sitting posture, 20;
spirits of, appear in dreams, 31, 91 _sq._;
spirits of the dead become gods, 31;
taboo entailed by contact with the, 39,137 _sq._;
buried in _morais_, 117 _sqq._, 282 _sqq._, 311;
worship of the, in Samoa, 204 _sq._;
blood offered to the, 209;
buried with head to the east, 210;
buried with the head to the rising sun, 232;
songs sung in honour of the, 236;
buried in sitting posture, 262;
images of spirits of the, 287 _sq._, 313 _sq._, 324 _sq._;
blood of mourners offered to the, 303, 304, 311;
fear of the spirits of the, 304 _sq._;
disposal of the, in the Society Islands, 308 _sqq._;
souls of the, in images, 313 _sq._;
worship of the, in the Society Islands, 322 _sqq._;
assimilated to deities, 327;
disposal of the, among the Marquesans, 356 _sqq._;
in the Hawaiian Islands, 418 _sqq._;
evocation of the, 370 _sq._;
buried in crouching posture, 418.
_See_ Ghosts

---- men deified, 276

Death, Maori notion as to the cause of, 16;
stories as to the origin of, 16 _sqq._, 392;
Maori goddess of, 18;
fate of the soul after, 24 _sqq._, 85 _sqq._, 213 _sqq._,
238 _sqq._, 313 _sqq._, 363 _sqq._, 427 _sqq._;
the second, 29;
theories of the Society Islanders concerning, 299 _sqq._;
Marquesan contempt for, 352 _sq._;
Hawaiian beliefs and customs concerning,417 _sqq._

Deaths caused by the anger of the gods or by sorcery, 229;
traced to the agency of gods or sorcerers, 405

Decadence of magic, 68

Deification of ancestors, 33, 35;
of kings in their lifetime, 255;
of dead men, 276;
of men after death, 351 _sq._, 397;
of animals, 402

Deified kings, priests, and warriors, 227

---- men, 276, 349;
the spirits of,resident in animals, 228

---- spirits of chiefs, 204

Deities, primaeval, personifications of nature, 32, 34

Deity, Maori conception of, 35 _sq._

Democratic spirit of Samoans, 171, 175

Desgraz, C., 118, 358, 373

Despotism in Hawaii,