Through Polynesia and Papua : wanderings with a camera in Southern seas

G. Bell and Sons Ltd

1911

English

Bib record

"J.G. Russell"--handwritten inside front cover.

San Francisco to Society Islands ; life aboard the "Mariposa" ; arrival at Papeete -- the Society Islands ; discovery of ; mutiny of the "Bounty" ; flora ; flora ; climate -- Papeete ; description of ; peculiar church services ; the Adamites -- round Tahiti: Christmas festivities ; the French as colonisers ; lack of system ; Papara ; island traditions ; tribal wars. the god Oro ; the queen Purea ; missionaries -- south sea Vikings ; remarkable canoe voyages ; Easter Island sculptures ; probable origin ; the handiwork of a pre-Polynesian race -- the Cook Island confederation: Raratonga [sic]; Avarua ; form of government ; peculiar mission laws ; court cases ; superstitions ; burial customs -- Raratonga: prosperity of the natives under British rule ; church services ; native ideas of the hereafter ; drive round the island ; mat making ; fishing ; shark catching -- the Solomon Islands: discover of and description ; head hunting ; native houses ; lack of clothing ; native beliefs ; devil worship ; witchcraft ; population declining ; causes of ; fauna ; flora -- arrival at Tulagi: curio collecting ; Roviana lagoon ; devil house ; stone implements ; evidences of a pre-Papuan race -- war canoes -- head hunting -- missions -- semi-commercial ; ridiculous methods -- the Ramada lagoon: grassi ; centipedes ; the Marovo lagoon ; chief Ara ; his death ; Lela ; murder of Oliver Burns ; Lanasse ; outrages of natives ; native reprisals -- surrender of murderers of Oliver Burns: tambo or devil houses ; stone devil ; curio hunting ; dangers incidental to voyage to Bugutu ; suspicious incident ; head hunting ; arrive Kea ; native superstitions ; ancient shell fretwork ; Bugutu natives ; light colour ; unwarlike ; Kolambangra -- the Solomon Islands: their government ; incapacity of officials ; mal-administration ; instances of oppression ; alienation of native lands -- arrive Gizo: the Seta affair ; murder of Binskin family ; raids on natives ; indefensible acts ; mission hostility to government -- Bagga: investigation re: alleged killing of natives ; farce ; ridiculous verdict ; Wana Wana lagoon ; murder of alleged sorceress ; the Malaita islanders ; castaway's experiences ; return to Gizo ; fever ; the Shortland Islands ; Faisi ; native village ; Woodlark Island ; the mines -- British Papua ; administration of ; the natives ; superstitions ; witchcraft ; cannibalism ; punitive expeditions ; fauna ; flora -- New Guinea: samurai ; the malarial mosquito ; Milne Bay ; Clunn's plantation ; curio collecting ; native trading canoes ; the bush fowl ; flash-light photographing ; consequences of.

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