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344 Northern Territory of South Australia, size of, 21.

Nugu Roa, 218.

Nutmeg tree, 221.

Obi Islands, 223; Major, 223.

Oena-Oena, volcanic island, 237.

Olcott, Colonel, on board the Sachsen, 311.

Orange, Fort, 224.

Orchids, dado of, 38.

Orphir, Mount, 244.

Ortega, Pedro de, 119

Owen Stanley Range, 45, 198.

Pacific Island Labourers' Act, 1901, 45.

Padang, 244; population, 247.

Palembang, 244, 247.

Pallaranda, Cape (Many Peaks), 7.

Palm Islands, 8.

Palmer Gold Fields, 15.

Palmerston, 21.

Panama Canal, 268.; Republic of, 268.

Pandanus trees, 27.

Pandjong Priak, port of Batavia, 251.

Papandayang volcano, 257.

Papua 43. See New Guinea.

Papuan birds, number of species, 152, 159.

Papuans, 44; characteristics of the women, 106; the men, 107; dress, 107; ornaments, 107; hair, 10; musical instruments, 108; food, 108; houses, 109; temples, 110; belief in witchcraft, 110; system of governing, 112; treachery to the whites, 112, 147, 150; method of working, 130; conversion to Christianity, 205-208; result of contact with the white man, 206.

Paradisea guilielmi, 162; raggiana, 162.

Paragi, 237.

Parkinson, Mr., 104, 144, 145; Dreizig Jahre in der Südsee, 144.

Parkinson, Mrs., 113; her popularity, 146; attacked by natives, 146.

Paterson, Mr., 123.

Payne, Professor, on board the City of Melbourne, 14; "Champion Shot of the world," 14, 23; at Thursday Island, 23.

Peacock, Mr., his tobacco plantation, 177.

Pearl Harbour, 267; River, 290.

Pearl shell industry, 46, 217.

Penankbar, 76.

Perouse, La, result of his expedition, 126.

Peru, conquest of, 118.

Peter, King, of the Islands, on board the Stettin, 72, 89; his mode of trading, 90; children, 137; quarrel with Captain Niedermayer, 144; his home at Deslac, 150; rising of the natives, 178; his mode of revenge, 179.

Peters, Carl, his friendship with the Baroness Frieda von Bülow, 167.

Petershafen, massacres at, 178, 179.

Philippine Islands, 216.

Pinto, Mendez, 312.

Piper Bank Lightship, 17.

Pitt Straits, 211, 216.

Pollin Isle, 151.

Polo, Marco, at Sumatra, his description of it, 246.

Port Darwin, 21.

Port Jackson, 10.

Potsdamhafen, 180.

Powell, Wilfrid, 114.

Praed, Mrs. Campbell, at Curtis Island, 123.

Pratt, Mr. A. E., 208, 209; his expeditions amongst the Arfak Mountains, 198.

Priesuhn, Dr., 316.

Prince of Wales Island, 12, 25, 37.

Providence Channel, 12.

Pteridophora alberti or bird of paradise, 159.

Pullen-Burry, Miss, In a German Colony, 142; her interest in anthropology, 206.

Queensland, proposed division, 5; labour supply for, 44.