Polygamy in the Hervey Islands, 223

Polynesians, 1 _sqq._;
their origin and language, 2 _sqq._;
mode of life, 4;
dispersal from Savaii (Hawaiki), 6, 154 _sq._;
or from Tonga, 56;
their knowledge of fire, 56 _sq._;
ignorant of metals, 61, 250

Polytheism developed out of totemism, 94

Porpoises, gods in, 66, 92

Porter, Captain David, 330, 332, 344 _n._^1, 350, 353, 357 _n._^3,
362, 364 _sq._, 372

Pottery unknown to the Samoans, 181

Prayers to the gods, 79;
to the dead, 121;
to animal gods, 182;
for temporal benefits, 189;
before going to war, 189;
for the dying, 208;
offered to souls of dead relatives at their graves, 217;
rhythmical and ancient, 225;
offered to kings, 255;
of the Society Islanders, 257;
for the recovery of the sick, 257, 398;
to Oro, 261;
liturgical, 295 _sq._;
over the dead, 310;
for the dead, 318;
at temples, 327;
before battle, 397

"Praying people," sorcerers, 229

Presents brought to dying people, 207 _sq._

Priestess claiming to personify goddess, 401

Priests practise enchantments, 13 _sq._;
descended from the gods, 29;
their souls immortal, 29;
summon up spirits of dead, 31;
Tongan, their inspiration, 77 _sqq._;
Samoan, 192 _sq._;
inspired, 194;
consulted as to cause of sickness, 207;
inspired, called "god-boxes," 228 _sq._;
speaking in name of gods, 258, 293 _sqq._;
of shark gods, 276;
in the Society Islands, 292 _sqq._;
inspired by sharks, 403;
Hawaiian, 404

Property buried with the dead, 20, 140 _sq._, 211, 232 _sq._;
private, in relation to taboo, 47 _sq._;
rights of, in Samoa, 169 _sqq._

Prostitution, general, of women at the death of a great chief, 423

Pukapuka, Danger Island, 230

Pulotu, Samoan name for abode of the dead and of the gods, 204, 205,
214, 216, 217.
_Compare_ Bolotoo

Punishments in Samoa, 159 _sq._

Purification of king at installation, 255 _n._^1;
of land after defilement, 287 _sq._;
after contact with the dead, 210, 313;
of the souls of the dead, 316

Pyramidal tombs, 115

Pyramidical temples of Tahiti and the Marquesas, 119

Pyramids, stepped or terraced, 116, 117, 278 _sqq._;
of stone, stepped or terraced, in Hawaii, 408 _sqq._

Quiros, Fernandez de, 246

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