se after a death, 209, 212;
first brought to men by Maui, 226, 239;
hidden in wood by Mauike, 238;
stick and groove method of kindling, invented by Maui, 275, 335;
stolen by Maui, 350;
first given to men by Maui, 396
Fires not kindled near house of death, 355;
extinguished during periods of strict taboo, 389
First-born sons, sacrifice of, 89
First-fruits, offerings of, in Tonga, 122;
in the Society Islands, 257;
of taro presented to eel-god, 188
Fish, sacrifices of, 257, 291;
human victims called fish, 292;
worshipped, 402;
offered to shark god, 402
---- hooks made out of bones of dead, 21, 23, 311 _sq._
Fishing, modes of, 252, 337, 379
Flax cultivated by Maoris, 9
Flaying the dead, custom of, 367 _sq._
Flood, tradition of a great, 393, 394
Flying-foxes, gods in, 96;
incarnations of war-god, omens from, 190
_Fono_, representative assembly, parliament, 159, 179
Food buried with the dead, 24, 232;
not to be touched by tabooed person with his hands, 38, 44, 45, 137,
138, 209, 312;
not eaten in a house so long as a corpse is in it, 209;
offered at tomb, 362
Footprints in magic, 15
Forbes, Dr. Charles, 12
Forster, George, 262, 283, 287 _n._, 397, 314, 331
Forster, J. R., 117 _n._^1, 278 _n._^1, 287 _n._, 314, 323 _n._^1
Foundation sacrifices, 292
Fowls bred and eaten, 379
Freycinet, L. de, 423, 427
Friendly Islands. _See_ Tonga
Funeral dances, 139, 353 _sq._;
feasts, 144, 355, 362 _sq._, 366
---- games in Tonga, 140, 144;
in the Hervey Islands, 235 _sq._
---- rites in the Hervey Islands, 231 _sqq._
Futtafaihe or Fatafehi, family name of the Tuitongas, 108, 109
_Fytoca_, grave, burial-place, 67, 82, 102, 103, 137, 139, 141
G----, Father Mathias, 373
Games, funeral, in honour of the dead, 140, 144, 235;
athletic, at religious festivals, 188
Garment, evil magic wrought through, 67
Gerland, G., 266 _n._^4
Ghost personated by priest or kinsman, 306 _sqq._
Ghosts, fear of, 27, 31, 304 _sq._, 320 _sq._, 369 _sq._, 419 _sq._;
their passage to nether world, 27 _sq._;
live on sweet potatoes, 30;
slaying the, 234;
journeying with the sun, 239 _sqq._;
caught in nets, 242, 244;
eaten by Miru, 242;
driven away by force of arms, 355;
food offered to, 355, 356
Gill, W.
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