sq._, 421 _sq._, 425 _sq._

Hunchbacks thought to be favourites of spirits, 153

Hurricanes in Samoa, 153 _sq._

Idols, Hawaiian, 412 _sq._ _See_ Images

_Ifi_ tree, 74, 121, 133, 137

Image of basket-work, 275 _sq._;
wooden, of deified man, 398

Images of the gods, 290, 391 _sq._;
in which the souls of the dead were supposed to lodge, 287 _sq._,
313 _sq._, 324 _sq._;
carried to battle, 397;
spirits conjured into, 398;
of the gods, Hawaiian, 411 _sqq._

Immortality, belief in, its effect on the Maoris, 51;
restricted to chiefs and their ministers, 85;
of the human soul, 313. _See_ Soul

Incantations, Maori, 13 _sqq._;
of sorcerers, 325;
Hawaiian, 405, 417

Incarnation of gods in animals, 182 _sqq._

Inconsistency of savage thought, 84, 90 _sq._

Indonesians, 3

Infanticide, in Polynesia, 157;
among the Areois, 263

Infants, souls of dead, cause disease, 49, 299

Inspiration by drinking kava, 75, 77 _sqq._;
by souls of dead, 91;
of Samoan priests, 194;
of priests, in the Society Islands, 293 _sqq._;
of men by deities, 351

Inspired men, 350 _sqq._

Iron in Tonga, 61 _n._^2

---- tools among the Hawaiians, 382

Irrigation practised by Maoris, 9;
artificial, in Hawaii, 378 _sq._

Jarves, J. J., 383 _n._^2, 425

Jaw-bones of human victims hung in temple, 258

Jumping-off stone of souls of the dead, 214, 215.
_See_ Leaping-off place

Jupiter, the planet, emblem of deified chiefs, 204;
the shrine of a god, 228

Justice, administration of, in Samoa, 159 _sq._

_Kahuna_, priest, 417

Kaili. _See_ Tairi

Kamehameha (Tamehameha), king of Hawaii, 384, 388, 389, 400, 409, 415,
420, 422, 425, 427, 430, 431

Kanaloa, a great Hawaiian deity, 392, 393, 394, 395

Kane, a great Hawaiian deity, 392, 393, 394, 395, 398

Kaonohiokala, "eye-ball of the sun," a Hawaiian god, 431

Kapihe, a priest, 430, 431

_Kapu_, taboo, in Hawaiian dialect, 387

Karakakooa Bay in Hawaii, 391

_Karakias_, prayers or spells (Maori), 32, 39

Kauai, one of the Sandwich Islands, 375

Kava as source of inspiration, 75, 78, 229;
offered to the gods, 79, 187;
offered to whales, 93;
offered at graves, 121, 205;
drunk by the Marquesans, 334;
by the Hawaiians, 380

Keolakuhonua, the first woman, 393

Kil