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CHAPTER I.
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GENERAL ASPECT OF TAHITI - ARRIVAL AND
RECEPTION - GENERAL FIGURE OF THE
ISLAND - ITS GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE - OVERHAUL OF THE VESSELS - AN OBSERVA
TORY ESTABLISHED - SURVEY OF HARBOURS - LONGITUDE OF POINT VENUS -
HEIGHT
OF MOUNTAINS - VISITERS - TAUA, THE GOVERNOR OF MATAVAI - HIS
HOSPITALITY
- CHURCH AT MATAVAI - CONCOURSE OF NATIVES - CHARACTER OF THE
NATIVES
SCHOOL AT PAPIETI - ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS - REPLY OF PAOFAI - GENERAL
DIFFUSION OF EDUCATION - COMPLAINTS OF THE AMERICAN CONSUL - COUNCIL OF
THE CHIEFS - INFLUENCE OF THE MISSIONARIES - CHARACTER OF A PART OF THE
FOREIGN RESIDENTS - CHANGE OF THE NATIONAL DRESS - GENERAL VIEW OF THE
LABOURS OF THE MISSIONARIES - IMPROVEMENT IN THE NATIVE CHARACTER
CAUSES OF WANT OF INDUSTRY - CONSTITUTION OF TAHITI - COURTS OF JUSTICE
QUEEN AND ROYAL FAMILY - JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT - STATE OF PARTIES
- CASE OF THE CATHOLIC PRIESTS - DWELLINGS OF THE NATIVES -
APPEARANCE
OF THE FEMALES - DRESS OF THE TWO SEXES - TASTE OF
THE NATIVES FOR
FLOWERS - COOKERY AND MODE OF EATING - MUSIC OF THE ISLANDERS - THEIR
DANCES - EXPEDITION TO LAKE WAIHEREA - ABORTIVE
ATTEMPT TO ASCEND
OROILENA - DESCENT TO THE COAST - RETURN ALONG THE SOUTHERN AND WEST.
ERN COAST OF PAPIETI - NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND FOREIGN TRADE
CHAPTER II.
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SAILING OF THE PORPOISE - APPLICATION
FROM "JIM" THE PILOT - SURVEY OF
HARBOURS - DOLPHIN BANK - THE VINCENNES PROCEEDS TO PAPIETI - VIEW OF
PAPIETI
- INTERVIEW WITH THE CHIEFS - GENERAL FREYRE - IHTOTI - SECOND
ATTEMPT
TO ASCEND OROHENA - GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF TAHITI - VILLAGE AND BAY OF
PAPIETI COMMERCE OF PA1'IETI - POPULATION OF TAIIITI -
DISEASES - CRIMINAL
TRIAL - CULTIVATION - USEFUL PLANTS - ASCENT OF MOUNT AORAI
- ABSENCE OF
FOSSILS ON TAHITIAN MOUNTAINS - RETURN FROM MOUNT AORAI - MANUFACTURES
OF TAHITI - REMARKS ON THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN VISITERS - THEATRICALS BY
THE CREW OF THE PEACOCK - V1NCENNES SAILS FOR EIMEO - VIEW OF EIMEOTALOO
HARBOUR - LANDING AT EIMEO - RESIDENCE OF MR. SIMPSON - SCHOOL FOR
THE CHILDREN OF MISSIONARIES - CHARACTER OF THE
NATIVES - SCENERY AND
STRUCTURE OF EJMEO - SUPPLIES TO BE PROCURED THERE - VILLAGES - COTTON
FACTORY - SUGAR PLANTATIONS - OTHER
PRODUCTS - VON SCHANTZ'S CHART OF
TALOO HARBOUR - CONCLUSION
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DEPARTURE OF THE VINCENNES FROM
TAHITI - BELLINCHAUSEN'S ISLAND - ROSE
ISLAND - MANUA - ITS DESCRIPTION - THREATENED WAR - ITS CAUSE - CANOES
OF
MANUA - APPEARANCE AND CONDUCT OF THE NATIVES - VILLAGE - DRESS OF THE
NATIVES - PRODUCTIONS OF MANUA - OLOOSINGA - ITS DESCRIPTION - HOUSE OF
THE
KING - HIS ENTERTAINMENT - RETURN TO THE SHIP - CORAL REEF OF OLOOSINGA
OFOO - TEMPERATLJRE DURING THE PASSAGE - PLAN OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE
SQUADRON - APPEARANCE OF TUTUILA - HARBOUR OF PAGO - PAGO - ANCHORAGE
TOA - OBSERVATORY - GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF TUTUILA - APPEARANCE AND
CHARACTER OF ITS INHABITANTS - MASSACRE OF M. DE LANGLE - VILLAGE OF
PAGO - PAGO - GOVERNMENT - WAR - MATS - VISIT TO
TOA - HIS FEAST - PRICE OF
PROVISIONS - WAR - SONG - BATHING - MODE OF LIVING - EMPLOYMENTS AND
AMUSE
MENTS - MR. MURRAY, THE MISSIONARY - CUSTOMS OF TI1E
NATIVES - PUBLIC
WORSHIP - MISSIONARY - JUNCTION OF THE PEACOCK AND FLYING -
FISH - SURVEYS
- CLIMATE - VISIT TO HEATHEN VILLAGES - SAVAGE FEAST -
TEMPERATURE AT
THE TOP OF MATAFOA - SUPPOSED MURDER -
REMARKABLE PHENOMENA OF THE
TIDES
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DEPARTURE OF THE VINCENNES FROM TUTUILA
- HER NARROW ESCAPE FROM
WRECK - APPEARANCE OF UPOLU - MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN
HUDSON - CASE OF
TUVAI - COUNCIL OF THE CHIEFS - ARGUMENTS IN BEHALF OF TIJVAI - CAPTAIN
HUDSONS REPLY - DECISION OF THE CASE OF TUVAI - HIS BEHAVIOUR -
COMPLAINTS
OF THE NATIVES AGAINST WHALERS - PEA'S VISIT TO TUVAI - OUTRAGES OF
OPOTUNO - VISIT TO MR. WILLIAMS - INTERVIEW WITH MALIETOA - HIS DAUGHTER
- REQUEST FOR A COUNCIL OF CHIEFS - THE VINCENNES ORDERED INTO
PORT
SURVEYING PARTIES - LAKE OF LAUTO - ITS LEGEND - SUPERSTITION REGARDING
IT - MOUNT TOFUA - SUBTERRANEAN STREAMS - GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF UPOLU
- STREAMS OF LAVA - CAVERNS - SWALLOWS AT SANGA - WATERFALLS -
GIMBLET
RELIGION - ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE OPOTUNO - FONO, OR COUNCIL OF HIGH CHIEFS
ITS OBJECT - MR. J. WILLIAMS RECOGNISED AS CONSUL - REGULATIONS
DISCUSSED
AND ADOPTED - DEMAND FOR OPOTIJNO - FONO ADJOURNED - ITS SECOND MEETING
- SPEECH OF MALIETOA'S ORATOR - REWARD OFFERED FOR THE
APPREHENSION
OF OPOTUNO - TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS OF UPOLU - TYRANNY OF TAMAFAGO - WAB.
OF AANA - DESOLATION OF THAT DISTRICT - ISLAND OF MANONO - ISLAND OF
APOLIMA - PROCEEDINGS OF THE PORPOISE AT SAVAII - DR. PICKERING AND LIEU
TENANT MAURY LAND THERE - SURVEY OF THE COAST OF SAVAII - NATIVE MIS
SIONARY AT SALACHUA - FELIALUPO - ASAU - BAY OF MATAATUA - PECULIARITIES
OF ITS INHABITANTS - SAPAPALE - DR. PICKERING'S JOURNEY IN THE INTERIOR
OF
SAVAII - CURIOSITY OF THE NATIVES - FISHING ON THE CORAL REEF -
DESCRIPTION
OF SAVAII - ITS PEAK - ITS INTERIOR - ITS WANT OF STREAMS - ITS CORAL
REEF
ITS SOIL - THE PORPOISE PROCEEDS TO TUTUILA, AND THENCE TO UPOLU - RE.
UNION OF THE SQUADRON - REVIEW OF THE MARINES - EARTHQUAKES
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GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF THE SAMOAN
GROUP - ITS HARBOURS - ITS TIDES AND
CURRENTS - ITS CLIMATE - SIZE OF THE ISLANDS - SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS OF
THE
GROUP - ITS CULTIVATION - ITS QUADRUPEDS - ITS BIRDS - ITS REPTILES -
ITS FISH
ITS PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCE - LANGUAGE OF ITS
NATIVES - 'fUEIR
DISEASES - THEIR GENERAL APPEARANCE - THEIR NATIONAL
CHARACTER
LABOURS OF THE MISSIONARIES - NATIVE MISSIONARIES - SELECTION OF THEM
FOR THE NEW HEBRIDES - POPULATION OF THE ISLANDS - RELIGION
OF THE
HEATHEN - THEIR IDEA OF THE CREATION - OF A FUTURE STATE - THEIR OMENS
THEIR SUPERSTITION - THEIR DANCES - THEIR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS -
THEIR
AMUSEMENTS - PAPALANCI SHIP - THEIR BIRTIIS - THEIR MARRIAGES AND COURT
SHIP - THEIR ADOPTION OF CHILDREN - THEIR BURIALS - THEIR MOURNING -
THEIR
MANNERS AND APPEARANCE - THEIR DRESS - IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
ANCIENT
DRESS - TATTOOING - THEIR MANUFACTURE OF TAPA AND MATS - SAMOAN CANOES
- BOAT - SONG - HOUSES OF THE NATIVES - THEIR LIGHTS - THEIR FOOD
- THEIR
HABITS - THEIR MALANGAS - THEIR PUNISHMENTS FOR CRIMES -
THEIR WARS
THEIR OLOS - THEIR PEACE - MAKING - CLASSES OF SAMOAN SOCIETY -
ALLOTMENT
OF LANDS - MODE OF GOVERNMENT - DESCENT OF CHIEFTAINShIP - CEREMONIES
AT THE FONOS
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DEPARTURE FROM THE SAMOAN GROUP -
WALLIS ISLAND - DISPOSITION MADE OF
TUVAI - CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES AT WALLIS ISLAND
- HOORN ISLAND -
MATTHEWS' ROCK - REMARKABLE THUNDER - STORM - BALL'S PYRAMID - PORT
JACKSON
ENTERED - ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY - VISIT TO THE GOVERNOR - FORT MACQUARIFFATE
OF REV. MR. WILLIAMS - DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF SYDNEY - ITS
STREETS - ITS RESEMBLANCE TO AMERICAN TOWNS -
RELIGIOUS SECTS - PREVALENCE
OF INTOXICATION - GOVERNMENT - HOUSE - DRIVE TO SOUTH HEAD - ‘PUBLIC
GROUNDS - MR. CUNNINGHAM THE BOTANIST - HIS MELANCHOLY FATE - COUNTRY
AROUND SYDNEY - THE NATURALISTS LEFT IN NEW SOUTH WALES - GENERAL
DESCRIPTION OF THAT COLONY - ITS FORESTS - ITS GEOLOGICAL
STRUCTURE - COUNTRY
SOUTHWEST OF SYDNEY - LIVERPOOL MOUNTAINS - COUNTRY NORTH OF
THE LIVERPOOL MOUNTAINS - ILLAWARRA - DROUGHTS
AND FLOODS - REMARKS
OF MAJOR MITCHELL - RIVERS OF NEW SOUTH WALES - ITS MINERAL PRODUCTS -
ITS WATER - THE HEIGHT OF ITS MOUNTAINS - ITS CLIMATE - ITS TEMPERATURE
-
PREVAILING WINDS - ITS VEGETATION - MONOTONY OF ITS SCENERY - ITS
HORTICULTURE - NATIVE OF AUSTRALIA - THEIR NUMBERS - THEIR PHYSICAL
TRAITS
THEIR CHARACTER - THECT WANDERING HABITS - THEIR
TIMIDITY - THEIR CONFLICTS -
THEIR CORROBORY DANCES - ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THEIR BATTLES - THEIR
MODE OF SETTLING PRIVATE OUARRELS - THEIR WEAPONS - THEIR MODE
OF CUMBLNG - THEIR CANOES - THEIR SOCIAL SYSTEM - THEIR CUSTOM OF MAKING
TOUKG MEN - THEIR MARRIAGES - BURIAL OF THEIR DEAD
- THEIR RELIGIOUS
OPINIONS.
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EXTENT OF SEA - COAST OF AUSTRALIA -
PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY - EXTENT OF THE
GOVERNMENT OP NEW SOUTH WALES - HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES - AUSTRALIAN
LAND COMPANY - LAND FUND - POLICY OF GOVERNOR MACQUARIE - CONVICT
SHIP - VALUE OF CONVICT LABOUR - DISPOSITION OF CONVICTS ON
ARRIVAL -
ALLOWANCES TO CONVICT SERVANTS - WORKING OF THE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM -
SEPARATION OF FEMALE CONVICTS FROM THEIR CHILDREN
- FACTORY AT PARAMATTA - ITS DISCIPLINE -
CHILDREN IN THE FACTORY
- IRON - GANGS - CAPTAIN MACONOCHIE'S SOCIAL
SYSTEM
- ITS OPERATION - ITS PARTIAL ADOPTION AT
SYDNEY, AND AT NORFOLK ISLAND - TWO DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOCIAL
SYSTEM - CONDITION OF CONVICTS AND SOLDIERS COMPARED
- TICKET - OF - LEAVE MEN -
DISTINCTIONS IN SOCIETY - FREE EMIGRANTS - LABOURING CLASS OF FREE
EMIGRANTS -
CRIMPS - HIGHER CLASS OF SOCIETY - GOVERNOR, HOW APPOINTED, AND
FOR WHAT TERM - HIS POWERS - HIS SUCCESSOR IN CASE OF DEATH OR ABSENCE
-
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - COLONIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS - EXPENDITURE AND
MODE OF TAXATION - WORKING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM - STATUTE OF NEW
SOUTH WALES - DESIRE FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION - BOUNTY ON IMMIGRATION -
EMIGRATION -
MODE OF PROCURING GRANTS OF LAND - STATE OF CRIME IN NEW
SOUTH WALES - JUDGE BURTON'S CHARGE - HIS REPORT ON THE JURY SYSTEM -
OPINIONS
OF OTHER JUDGES - COURTS OF LAW - EDUCATION -
BISHOPRIC OF NEW
SOUTH WAl.ES - COLLEGE
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JAUNT TO PARAMATTA - DESCRIPTION
OF THAT PLACE - OBSERVATORY - GOVERN
MENT - HOUSE AND FARM - VISIT OF NATURALISTS TO ILLAWARRA - WOOLONGONG
- VEGETATION OF ILLAWARRA - LAKE OF ILLAWARRA - JAUNT OF MESSRS.
HALE
AND AGATE TO HUNTER'S RIVER - TOWN OF NEWCASTLE - COAL MINES - CONVICT
MARRIAGES - CONVICT STOCKADE - NATIVES - - JOURNEY TO LAKE
MACQUARIE - MR.
THRELKELD - MACQUARIE LAKE - CONVICT SERVANTS - M'GILL, THE NATIVE
SHEEP - SHEARING - VISIT TO PEUEN BEUEN - BANKS OF HUNTER RIVER - MR.
HALE'S
JOURNEY TO WELLINGTON VALLEY - MAIL CARRIAGE - POST - OFFICE DEPARTMENT
- PENRITH - BLUE MOUNTAINS - MOUNT VICTORIA - VALLEY OF CLWYD -
BATBURST
- LAKES - BUSH - RANGERS - WELLINGTON - NATIVE CHILDREN - MR.
WATSON - SHEEP
SHEARING - PROFITS OF SHEEP - FARMS - FLOODS OF THE MACQUARIE -
POPULATION
OF THE WEST - NATIVE LANGUAGES - MR. PEALE'S JOURNEY - CLIFTON - CAPTAIN
M'ARTHUR - HE INTRODUCES THE FINE - WOOL SHEEP - LIVERPOOL - DAM IN
COOK'S
RIVER - NEPEAN RIVER - BIRDS - WALLABIES - STRATHARA
- BIRDS - DECREASE OF
NATIVE ANIMALS - VISIT TO NEWINGTON - SALT - WORKS - PREVALENCE OF SALT
IN
AUSTRALIA - DECREASE OF LAKES - ANCIENT FLOODS - DESCRIPTION OF FISSURES
EARTHQUAKES - BURNING MOUNTAIN - TRADE OF NEW SOUTH WALES - FISHERIES
- BANKS - - EXPORTS - DEPOTS FOR GRAIN - COLONY AT SWAN
RIVER - SOUTH AUS
TRALIA - FETE AT FORT MACQUARIE - SURPRISE OF
THE COLONISTS AT OUR
WANT OF PREPARATION - STATE OF THE PEACOCK - ARRIVAL OF H. B. M. SHIP
DRUID - SEASON OF OUR VISIT - FACILITIES FOR OUTFITS
AT SYDNEY - KINDNESS
AND HOSPITALITY OF CITIZENS - CHRISTMAS DINNER - DEPARTURE OF THE
SQUADRON -
DESERTERS FOUND ON BOARD
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PRELIMINARY REMARKS - PROCEEDINGS OF
THE SQUADRON TO THE SECOND OF
JANUARY - SEPARATION OF THE FLYING - FISH AND PEACOCK - FIRST ICEBERG
SEEN
- FALL IN WITH THE ICY BARRIER - PORPOISE LOST SIGHT OF -
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE PEACOCK FROM THE THIRD OF JANUARY - HER VISIT TO
MACQUARIES
ISLAND - FIRST ICEBERG SEEN BY HER - SHE FALLS IN WITH THE ICY BARRIER
PROCEEDINGS OF THE PORPOISE - SEA - ELEPHANTS SEEN AND TAKEN - LAND SEEN
FROM ALL THE VESSELS - PROCEEDINGS OF THE VINCENNES FROM
THE SIX
TEENTH OF JANUARY - SHE ENTERS A DEEP BAY IN THE BARRIER - PEACOCK AND
PORPOISE SEEN - PEACOCK SPOKEN - LAND
DISTINCTLY SEEN FROM THE VIN
CENNES AND PEACOCK - FIGHT BETWEEN A WHALE AND KILLER, SEEN FROM THE
PEACOCK - PROCEEDINGS OF THE PEACOCK - SOUNDINGS OBTAINED BY HER - HER
PERILOUS SITUATION AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE - HER CRIPPLED
CONDITION -
CAPTAIN HUDSON RESOLVES TO RETURN - HIS ADMIRABLE CONDUCT, AND THAT
OF HIS OFFICERS AND CREW
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VINCENNES FROM THE
TWENTY - SECOND OF JANUARY -
DISAPPOINTMENT BAY - WATERING ON THE ICE - DIAGRAMS OF THE ICE -
ISLANDSTHEIR
UTILITY - VIOLENT GALE AND SNOW - STORM - NARROW ESCAPE FROM
STRIKING THE ICE - THE OPEN SEA REACHED - RETURN OF FINE WEATHER
VINCENNES STANDS AGAIN TO THE SOUTH, AND REACHES THE ICY BARRIER
FINER'S BAY - SOUNDINGS IN THIRTY FATHOMS - ANOTHER VIOLENT GALE
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS - OPINION OF THE WARD - ROOM OFFICERS
DETERMINATION TO PROCEED WITH THE CRUISE - ITS EVENTS UP TO THE FOUR
TEENTH OF FEBRUARY - LANDING ON AN ICEBERG -
SPECIMENS OF ROCKS OB
TAINED - INQUIRY IN RELATION TO THE FORMATION OF ICEBERGS - THEIR
SEPARA.
TION FROM THE LAND - THEIR PROGRESS - FURTHER EVIDENCE IN RELATION TO
THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT - ESTIMATE OF THE RATE AT WHICH THE
FLOAT
ING ICE MOVES - THE VINCENNES BEGINS HER RETURN TO THE NORTH
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE PORPOISE FROM THE
TWENTY - SECOND TO THE THIRTIETH OF
JANUARY - FRENCH SQUADRON SEEN - ITS COMMANDER REFUSES TO SPEAK THE
PORPOISE - PROCEEDINGS UP TO THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY - GALE
- FURTHER
PROCEEDINGS TO THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY - SPECIMENS OF ROCK OBTAINED
WESTERN LIMIT OF HER CRUISE - RETURN TO THE EASTWARD - PORPOISE STANDS
TO THE NORTHWARD - AUCKLAND ISLANDS - PORPOISE
ARRIVES AT THE BAY OF
ISLANDS - CRUISE OF THE FLYING - FISH - LANDING AT MACQUARTE'S ISLAND -
PRO
CEEDINGS OF THE FLYING - FISH UP TO THE FOURTH OF FEBRUARY - STATE OF
HER CREW - THEIR LETTER TO LIEUTENANT PINKNEY - HE RESOLVES TO RETURN
- ARRIVAL OF THE FLYING - FISH AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS - EVENTS
DURING THE
RETURN OF THE VINCENNES - SHE FAILS TO REACH VAN DIEMEN'S LAND - AR
RIVAL OF THE VINCENNES AT SYDNEY - PEACOCK FOUND THERE - RETURN OF THE
PEACOCK FROM THE ICY BARRIER - SHE MAKES MACQUARJE's ISLAND - SHE
ARRIVES AT SYDNEY - STATE OF THE PEACOCK - HOSPITALITIES RECEIVED
AT
SYDNEY
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DEPARTURE FROM SYDNEY - PASSAGE TO NEW
ZEALAND - ARRIVAL AT THE BAY OF
ISLANDS - MEETING WITH THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS - THEIR PASSAGE FROM SYDNEY
- BAY OF ISLANDS - RIVERS WHICH FALL INTO IT - FACE OF THE COUNTRY
ACTIVE VOLCANO - HOT SPRING OF TAJAIMI - CRATER OF POERUA - DR.
PICKERING
VISIT TO HOKIANGA - MISSIONARY ESTABLISHMENT AT PAHIA - KORORARIKA
ENGLISH POLICE MAGISTRATE AND ACTING GOVERNOR - TREATY OF CESSION TO
ENGLAND - CONDUCT OF THE AMERICAN CONSUL - INSTALLATION OF THE LIEU
TENANT - GOVERNOR - OPINION OF THE CHIEFS IN RELATION TO THE TREATY
ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH REVENUE OFFICERS - LAND CLAIMS - BURDENSOME TAXES
AND TARIFF - THEIR EFFECT ON AMERICAN COMMERCE - EXPENSE OF THE NEW
GOVERNMENT - CASE OF JOHN SAC - HIS LETTER TO MR.
WALDRON - FURTHER
REMARKS ON THE TREATY OF CESSION - VIOLENT GALE
- ITS EXTENT AND
ROTARY CHARACTER - FOREIGN RESIDENTS - HIGH PRICE OF LAND - MISSIONS
- -
TABOO - PAS, OR FORTIFIED TOWNS - DWELLINGS - TOMB - DRESS OF THE
NATIVES
- THEIR STOREHOUSES - THEIR FOOD - THEIR ARMS AND ORNAMENTS
- KING
FOMARE - MAUPARAWA - CHARLEY POMARE - POMARE'S WARS - CEREMONY OF HIS
RETURN - HIS MEANNESS - POPULATION OF NEW ZEALAND - VISIT TO WANGARARA
- POLITENESS OF KO - TOWATOWA - WANGARARA BAY - CHARACTER OF THE
NEW
ZEALANDERS - THEIR PERSONAL APPEARANCE - TRADITION IN
RELATION TO
THEIR ORIGIN - TATTOOED HEADS - CANNIBALISM - CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF
THE NATIVES - NATIVE DANCES - MUSIC - CHATHAM ISLAND - CHART OF THE BAY
OF ISLANDS - MR. COUTHOUY'S PASSAGE FROM SYDNEY - HIS ACCOUNT OF MOUNT
EGMONT - OF PORT COOPER - WARS OF ROBOLUA - PORT LEVY - KORAKIBARURIJ
PIGEON BAY - CAPE CAMPBELL AND SNOWY PEAKS - CLOUDY BAY - ROBOLUA
hABITS OF THE NATIVES, AND PREVAILING WINDS AT CLOUDY BAY - CLIMATE
OF NEW ZEALAND - DISEASES - SOIL - CULTIVATION
- VEGETABLE
PRODUCTIONS - TIMBER - CANOES - QUADRUPEDS
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I. REGULATIONS RESPECTING TRADE WITH
NATIVES 419
II. ORDERS FOR LIEUTENANT EMMONS'S PARTY 420
III. ORDERS TO LIEUTENANT - COMMANDANT RINGGOLD 421
IV. LETTER TO QUEEN POMARE 429
V. ORDERS TO LIEUTENANT - COMMANDANT RINGGOLD 424
VI. ORDERS TO CAPTAIN HUDSON AND LIEUTENANT P1NKNEY 424
VII. ABSTRACT OF DIARY KEPT AT PAGO - PAGO HARBOUR 426
VIII. EXTRACT OF A LETTER RELATIVE TO REMARKABLE FLOW OF THE SEA 427
IX. COMMERCIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS OF SAMOAN GROUP 428
X. TABLES OF NUMBER OF PERSONS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL IN NEW SOUTH WALES
431
XI. ORDERS TO THE NATURALISTS, ETC. ETC. 433
XII. RETURN OF SCHOOLS, ETC. 436
XIII. CENSUS OF 1841, AND RETURN OF IMMIGRANTS AND CONVICTS ARRIVED..
438
XIV. TABLE OF RETURN OF BANKS, ETC., ETC 442
XV. TABLE OF RETURN OF VALUE OF EXPORTS 443
XVI. TABLE OF RETURN OF VESSELS BUILT AND REGISTERED IN THE COLONY,
AND LIVE - STOCK 444
XVII. TABLE OF RETURN OF TONNAGE OF VESSELS ARRIVING AND DEPARTING 445
XVIII. TABLE OF RETURN OF WOOL AND DUTIES, ETC., ETC 447
XIX. TABLE OF RETURN OF SALE OF CROWN - LANDS 448
XX. TABLE OF ESTIMATED QUANTITY OF LAND IN CULTIVATION 448
XXI. REPORT OF STATE OF PEACOCK 449
XXII. TABLE OF RETURNS OF TIMBER AND FISHERIES 450
XXIII. STATEMENT OF INTRODUCTION OF SHEEP IN NEW SOUTH WALES 451
XXIV. LETTER TO CAPTAIN JAMES ROSS, OF II. B. M. SHIP EREBUS 453
XXV. INSTRUCTIONS TO VESSELS FOR ANTARCTIC CRUISE 457
XXVI. BAROMETRICAL OBSERVATIONS DURING GALES 459
XXVII. LETTERS FROM OFFICERS RELATIVE TO SITUATION OF SHIP 461
XXVIII. REGISTER OF BAROMETER AND THERMOMETER ON ANTARCTIC CRUISE 464
XXIX. REPORT OF CAPTAIN HUDSON OF THE ANTARCTIC CRUISE OF PEACOCK 464
XXX. REPORT OF LIEUTENANT - COMMANDANT RINGGOLD OF PORPOISE, ON
ANTARCTIC CRUISE 469
XXXI. QUEEN VICTORIA AND CAPTAIN HOBSON'S PROCLAMATION TO NEW
ZEALAND CHIEFS 473