361 _sq._;
mummies deposited in, 357;
in Hawaii, 391, 406 _sqq._;
dead chiefs buried in, 407 _sq._

Morality reinforced by superstitious terrors, 83;
not influenced by religion, 318

Mortality of souls of commoners, 66, 85

Motoro, a great god in the Hervey Islands, 241

Mourning for death of divine owl, 186 _sq._

---- customs of Maoris, 19 _sq._;
in Tonga, 132 _sqq._;
in Samoa, 208 _sq._;
in the Hervey Islands, 231;
among the Society Islands, 301 _sqq._;
of the Marquesans, 353 _sqq._;
in Hawaii, 420 _sqq._

Mouth and nostrils of dying stopped to prevent the escape of the soul,
352

Mueu, a female demon of death, 235

Mukasa, great god of the Baganda, 270

Mullets sacred, 95, 184

Mummies kept in the house or deposited in a _morai_, 357

Muru, a god, spreads a net to catch ghosts, 244

Mythology of the Society Islanders, 257 _sq._, 277;
of the Marquesans, 348 _sqq._

Nails, parings of, used in evil magic, 325, 405

Names of relatives changed after a death, 233;
of kings sacred, 254;
new, given at admission to the Society of the Areois, 261;
exchange of, 339

Namuka, one of the Tonga Islands, 52

Nature, personifications of, 32, 34;
worship of, 93

Necromancy among the Maoris, 30 _sq._

Negritoes, 3

Net to catch ghosts, 242, 244

New Zealand, the Maoris of, 5 _sqq._;
Melanesian population of, 6 _sq._

Neyra, Alvaro Mendana de, 328

Ngati-apa, a Maori tribe, 23

Nicholas, J. L., 16 _n._^3

Night, or the primaeval darkness (_Po_), 258, 276, 277, 298 _n._^1,
305, 315, 323, 393, 397, 427;
burials by, 419

Nightmare caused by a ghost, 419

_Noa_, common, 38, 39, 40;
general, as opposed to _taboo_, sacred, 388

Noah, the Hawaiian, 393, 394

Nobility traced in female line in Tonga, 75

Nobles, souls of dead, as gods, 64, 66, 84, 91

North Cape of New Zealand, place of departure for souls of the dead,
27, 28, 30

Nukahiva, one of the Marquesas Islands, 328, 337, 350, 352, 360, 361,
364, 368, 371, 372

Nuu, the Hawaiian Noah, 393, 394

O-Heena, a goddess, 287 _n._
_See_ Hina

O-rongo, in Mangaia, 225

Oahu, one of the Sandwich Islands, 375, 376 _n._^2, 385, 395, 411, 429

Obsequies of kings and chiefs in Tonga, 133 _sqq._;
of the Tooiton