auea, volcano in Hawaii, 375, 399, 401

King, Captain, 378, 379, 385 _sq._, 391, 402, 408, 410

King, of Samoa, 176 _sq._;
customs observed on the death of a king in Hawaii, 420 _sqq._

"King of Fiji," a Samoan family god, 192

Kingfisher sacred, 93;
superstition about, 277 _n._^2

Kingfishers, incarnations of war-god, omens from, 190;
gods of families, villages, or districts, embodied in, 193;
consulted oracularly, 196

Kings, two, in Tonga, one civil, the other religious, 62 _sq._;
the priests or mouthpieces of a god, 224;
sacred, in the Hervey Islands, 224 _sq._;
primary and secondary, in Mangaia, 225;
as gods or descended from gods in the Society Islands, 253 _sq._;
as high-priests, 253, 255;
in Hawaii, 383 _sq._

Kingship, double, 63

Kitchen, dying chief carried into the, 82

Koreamoku, a deified man, 398

Kotzebue, O. von, 385 _n._^4, 388 _sq._, 416

Kpelle, of Liberia, their superstitions about twins, 269, 274

Krusenstern, A. J. von, 346, 348, 362, 371, 372

Ku, a great Hawaiian deity, 392, 393

Kuahairo, a Hawaiian god, 431

Kumuhonua, the first man, 393

La Perouse, 149

Labillardiere, 81

Langsdorff, G. H. von, 118, 341, 351 _n._^2, 371, 372

Language, Polynesian, 2;
special form of, used in speaking of chiefs, 173 _sqq._

Leaping-off place for souls of dead, 27, 241.
_See_ Jumping-off stone

Leeward Islands, 246, 319

Lifuka (Lefooga), one of the Tonga Islands, 52, 73, 109

Lightning, omens from, 191

Lipolipo, king of Hawaii, 389 _sq._, 427

Lisiansky, U., 338, 366 _sq._, 368 _sq._, 371, 372, 411, 412, 414,
421, 422, 423

Litany chanted after a death, 355

Liturgies, in the Society Islands, 296

Liturgy, ancient Hawaiian, 394

Liver, the seat of courage, 85;
a disease of, attributed to breach of taboo, 76 _sq._;
of pig a god, 98

Lizard, the tempter in the form of a, 393

Lizards feared as causes of disease, 50;
gods in, 66, 92, 94, 96, 182, 227, 228;
omens from, 190

Lono (Rono), a great Hawaiian deity, the equivalent of Rongo, 392,
393, 395;
Captain Cook identified with, 396

Lord of Mangaia, 224

Lucifer, the Hawaiian, 393

Macahity, a Hawaiian festival, 414 _sqq._

Mafanga, burial-place of chiefs in Tongataboo, 120, 121

Mafuie, god of earthquakes, 203

Magic,