ersonage in Tonga, 66

Veeson, George, 86

Vegetable gods in Samoa, 192

Ventriloquism, 370

Venus, the planet, the shrine of a god, 228

Vergnes, P. E. Eyriaud des, 374

Village gods, 182, 185

Villages, Samoan, self-governing, 178 _sq._

Vincendon-Dumoulin, 118, 358, 373

Virtue, Tongan ideas of, 66 _sq._, 146 _sq._

Volcanic activity in Tonga Islands, 53 _sqq._;
in Samoa, 151;
in Hawaii, 375

Volcano, goddess of, in Hawaii, 399 _sqq._;
offerings to, 399 _sq._

_Wahi taboo_, sacred place, temple, 387 _sq._

_Wahine ariki_, 40

Waimate Plains in New Zealand, 23

Wakea. _See_ Akea

Wallis Island (Uea), 125

Wallis rediscovers Society Islands, 246

War gods, Samoan, 186, 188, 189 _sq._

War-gods, images of, carried to battle, 397

Warriors tabooed, 40 _sq._

Warriors, fate of souls of dead, 242 _sq._, 244 _sq._

Water of Life, River of the, 28;
in the nether world, 216

Weaving practised by Maoris, 9

West, Thomas, 114

Whale, soul of dead priest in a, 369

Whales worshipped, 93

_Whattas_, altars, 391, 392

White cloth as mark of taboo, 344;
flags as marks of property, 386

Widowers tabooed, 39

Widows killed to accompany their dead husbands, 24;
tabooed, 39;
strangled and buried with their husbands, 145;
dances of, 353, 354

Wilkes, Charles (Commodore), 57, 61 _n._, 87, 89 _n._^1, 90,
155 _n._^1, 384 _sq._, 411

Williams, John, 80, 157 _n._^7, 158, 181, 185, 221, 231

Wilson, James, 264 _n._^5

Winds imprisoned by two gods, 277

Windward Islands, 246

Wiro, evil spirit, 27

Woman, the first, created out of a rib of the first man, 393 _sq._

Women well treated by Tongans, 61 _sq._;
well treated by the Samoans, 157;
excluded from temples, 288 _sq._;
forbidden to eat with men, 381;
forbidden to partake of sacrifices, 388

Woodpecker, gods incarnate in the, 228

Worms, souls of the dead in the shape of, 29

Worship of ancestors among the Maoris, 32 _sqq._;
of the Tongan gods, 79 _sqq._;
of nature, 93;
of the dead tends to encroach on the worship of the high gods,
97 _sq._;
of animals and other natural objects in Samoa, 182 _sqq._,
200 _sqq._;
of the dead in Samoa, 204 _sq._;
of the dead, elements of the, 205;
of the sun, supposed, 266, 286 _