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 * Abomination, buto, p. 31.
 * Abortion, 229.
 * Acting, 342.
 * Admission to Clubs, 105.
 * —to Mysteries, 80.
 * Adoption, 25, 27, 42, 51 note.
 * Adultery, 243.
 * Agnatic descent, 29.
 * Alite, 298, 325.
 * Alligators, see Crocodiles.
 * Ambrym, 13, 72, 84, 144, 174, 288
 * —note, 306, 332, 337, 355.
 * Amulets, 121, 134, 184.
 * Anaiteum, 123.
 * Animism, 123.
 * Antiquity, 48.
 * Apes, anthropoid, 19 note, 354.
 * Araga, see Pentecost Island.
 * Arrows, Poisoned, 215, 306.
 * Arts of life, 290.
 * —Decorative.
 * Atai, 250.
 * Atolls, 17.
 * Aurora Island, Maewo, 6, 25, 86, 112, *143, 168, 182, 199, 201, 240, 291, 298, 309, 313, 319, 323, 333, 340, 352, 369.
 * Australian Mysteries, 70.
 * Avoidance, 43, 232.


 * Badges, 75, 82, 87, 110, 112.
 * Bamboo Knife, 315.
 * Bananas, 319.
 * Banks' Islands, 2, 3, 4, 7 note, 16, 23, 24, 29, 35, 43, 54, 63, 72, 75, 104, 123, 139, 146, 151, 174, 181, 198, 211, 214, 216, 219, 225, 229, 231, 236, 239, 245, 265, 298, 306, 311, 313, 318, 319, 322, 325, 333, 334, 340, 342, 348, 353, 354.
 * Bastards, 236.
 * Bauro, 4 note, 6 note.
 * Belief in Magic, 193.
 * Bellona Island, 2, 16, 313, 322.
 * Betel nut, 1, 9 note, 351.
 * Betrothal, 237, 238.
 * Bice, Rev. C., 241 note, 301 note, 304 note.
 * Bird's-nest Fern, 265, 277, 279.
 * Birgus latro, 19.
 * Birth, 230.
 * Biu Island, 19.
 * Bligh, 4, 7 note.
 * —Island, see Ureparapara.
 * Bonesetters, 198.
 * Bonito, 179, 233.
 * Bougainville, 3.
 * Boundaries, 65 note.
 * Bows, 8, 304.
 * Bowls, 316.
 * Breadfruit, 83 note, 319.
 * Brenchley, Mr., 5, 122, 295, 299 note.
 * Bridge of Dead, 257.
 * Brothers and Sisters, 36, 232.
 * Bugotu, 30, 135, 180, 196, 256, 299, 300, 302, 318, 343, 345.
 * Bull-roarers, 80, 98, 342.
 * Burial, 254, 257, 258, 261, 263, 267, 270, 278, 284, 287, 288 note.
 * Burning alive, 347.
 * — the dead, 263.
 * Burying alive, 288, 347.
 * — in sea, 254, 258, 262.
 * — wives, 257.
 * Buto, 31.


 * Caladium, 304; see Taro.
 * Canarium, 132, 138, 320.
 * Cannibalism, 343, 395 note, 398.
 * Canoe-houses, 258, 299.
 * Canoes, 290.
 * Capture in Marriage, 238 note, 240.