Embalmment of the dead, 117, 205;
in Samoa, 210, 213;
in the Society Islands, 309, 310 _sqq._;
in the Marquesas, 356 _sq._;
in Hawaii, 418

Erskine, J. E., 114

Ethical influence of the Tongan religion, 146 _sq._

_Etua_, a god, 348.
Compare _Atua_

Eua, one of Tonga Islands, 52, 123

Euhemerism, 69

Eve, the Hawaiian, 393

Evocation of the dead, 370 _sq._

Exogamy, Samoan religious system independent of, 201;
in the Hervey Islands, 223

Exorcisers, 351

Exorcism practised for the healing of the sick, 206 _sq._, 417 _sq._

Expiation for sacrilege, 74 _sqq._;
for eating sacred animal, 184, 185

Eye, spirit or soul thought to reside in, 42, 417;
of human victim presented to king, 292

Fafa, subterranean abode of the dead, 215

Fakaofo or Bowditch Island, 394

Family gods embodied in visible objects, 182 _sqq._;
analogous to totems, 200

Fan or Fang, of West Africa, their superstition about a twin, 269

Farmer, Sarah S., 57 _n._^1, 61 _n._, 92, 97, 111 _n._

Fasting after a death, 210, 355

Fate of the soul after death, 213 _sqq._, 238 _sqq._, 313 _sqq._,
363 _sqq._, 427 _sqq_.

Fear of the dead, its humanising influence, 300;
of ghosts, 369 _sq._, 419.
_See_ Ghosts

Feast of Calabashes, 354

Feasts, funeral, 144, 355, 362 _sq._, 366;
annual, in honour of the gods, 187 _sq._
_See_ Festivals

Feathers, sacred red, 254;
gods conjured into, 265;
placed in images of the gods, 290 _sq._;
called gods, 291

Female line, nobility traced in, 75

Ferry-boat for souls of dead, 26

Fertilising virtue attributed to twins, 269 _sqq._

Festival, great annual, 289;
called "the ripening of the year," 326 _sq._

Festivals, of the Samoans, 188;
of the Marquesans, 341 _sq._;
Hawaiian, 414 _sqq._
_See_ Feasts

_Fiatooka_, place of burial and of worship, 103, 104, 105, 109, 116,
120, 132, 133

Fijian influence in Tonga, 59

Fingers mutilated in mourning, 19;
sacrificed, 80 _sq._

Finow, king of Tonga, 79, 80, 81, 82, 91, 92, 103, 105, 120, 121, 135,
136, 137, 139, 140;
obsequies of, 135 _sqq._

Finow the Second, king of Fiji, 135

Fire, Polynesian knowledge of, 56 _sq._;
kindled by friction of wood, 181;
robbed by Ti'iti'i from Mafuie, 203;
kept up in hou