iii. 188-192

Nephrite. _See_ Jade.

New Caledonia, proposition of Dr. J. D. Lang to found there a German settlement, iii. 15; attempts of the French to annex same, 89, 250

New Plymouth, province of New Zealand, iii. 188

New year's eve at the Antipodes, iii. 166-168

New Zealanders. _See_ Maories.

Ngara, Lament for, specimen of New Zealand poetry, iii. 131

Nicobar archipelago, ii. 1-137

Niemann, Dr. Albert, his discovery of cocain, iii. 406

Nopal plantations. _See_ Cochineal.

Norfolk Island. _See_ _Bounty_, mutiny of.

North Cape, Australia, ii. 627

North China Herald, ii. 386, 496

"Norther," description of a, at Valparaiso, iii. 285, 286

Norzagaray, Don Fernando, Governor-General of the Philippines, ii. 307

Nót, an aboriginal race on Puynipet Island, ii. 575

_Novara_, her equipment, i. 4-9; at the dry-dock, Sydney, iii. 49; festivities on board in honour of the birth of a crown prince, 51-54; return to Trieste, 455; retrospect of her career, 456-460

Nukahiwa, island of, Marquesas group, iii. 250

Nunneries in Shanghai for Chinese ladies, ii. 435, 436

O

Observatory at Santiago de Chile, iii. 299

Odd Fourth, game at cards, introduced by sailors among the natives of Sikayana, ii. 602

_Oïdium Tuckeri_, Madeira, i. 78

Onehunga, village in Auckland province, iii. 97

Opium, how prepared, ii. 154-160; annual imports of, into China, 518-523; its cost in China, 523

---- boats on the Wusung, ii. 411

---- smokers, ii. 157-159, 274; number of, in China, 523

Opposition line between New York and California, iii. 426

Oraki, a Maori village, iii. 147-149

Oranges, exportations of, from Tahiti into California, iii. 240

Otahuha, village near Auckland, iii. 155

Overbeck, M. Gustav, Prussian Consul at Hong-kong, ii. 378

Owen, Captain, his visit to the Nicobars, ii. 3

P

Paarl, village of, Cape Colony, i. 219

Pachacamác, ruins of, iii. 390-395

Páh, a New Zealand native entrenchment, iii. 117, 155

Pakin Island, ii. 589

Pampero (storm from the pampas), i. 119

Panama, description of, iii. 424-429; "Star and Herald," 428; Railroad, description of, 429-438

_Panax Ginseng._ _See_ Ginseng.

Pandanus tree, its exuberance on the Nicobar Islands, ii. 64, 101

Paomotu Islands, iii. 260

Paora Tahuera, New Zealand chief, address of, to the Expedition, iii. 102

Papakura, plains of, New Zealand, iii. 170

Papaoa, village in Tahiti, iii. 237

Papeete, capital of Tahiti, its position, iii. 197, 210; origin of name and mode of spelling, 210-212; Tahitian orators at, 212-214; its religious and social condition under the French Protectorate, 213-220; Governor's ball, 235-240

Paréu, a Tahitian native garment, iii. 221-231

Parkes, Harry, English Commissioner at Canton, ii. 385

Parliament at Tahiti, speeches in, iii. 212

Patterson, Mr. M., Principal of St. John's College, Auckland, iii. 152

Patuóni, New Zealand chief, iii. 102

Paul, St., Island of, described, i. 267-319

Payta, harbour of, Peru, iii. 420-422

Pearls, artificial, how made, i. 387, 388

Pearl-fishery of Ceylon, i. 379-388; of Panama, iii. 429

Pearl, mother-o', procured at Paomotu and Gambier Islands, iii. 240 (note)

Pedro-talla-galla, highest mountain in Ceylon, i. 412

Peh-lah, vegetable wax of China, ii. 518

Pekin, Treaty of Peace concluded at, ii. 388

Peluqueros, political party in Chile, iii. 306

Penguins, in St. Paul Island, ludicrous movements of, i. 281-284

Pettah, the, or Black quarter, Colombo, i. 372

Pfitzmaier, Dr., an eminent Sinologue, ii. 367, 418, 461; his explanation of Chinese written character, 526

Philippi, Dr., Professor in College of Santiago, iii. 297

_Phormium tenax_, New Zealand flax, iii. 145

Phosphorescent glow in the sea, i. 26

Physical and geognostic memoranda. _See_ Humboldt.

Pia, the (_Tacca Pinnatifida_), Tahiti, iii. 244

Piaco, river, New Zealand, iii. 96

Pico Ruivo, Madeira, i. 102, 105

Pih-kwei, Tartar general, ii. 385

_Piper methysticum._ _See_ Kawa.

Pisco, town in Peru, iii. 354-357

Pissis, Aimé, geologist of Santiago, iii. 297

Pitcairn Island, History of. _See_ _Bounty_.

Pizarro, conqueror of Peru, his corpse exposed to view in the catacombs of Lima, iii. 369; his portrait in the National Museum, 378

Point de Galle, Ceylon, i. 359-361

Point Venus, Tahiti, iii. 222; revolving lighthouse on, 223

Pola, chief naval arsenal of Austria, iii. 454

Polyandria, prevalence of, in Ceylon, and cause, i. 365

Polygamy in China, ii. 371

Pomáre II., King of Tahiti, iii. 198; origin of name, 201; his remark on first beholding a horse, 202

Pomáre, Queen, her letter to Louis Philippe, iii. 208; her civil list, 209; her residence, 210; rudeness of French authorities to, 236-238

Pomperos. _See_ Fire Companies.

Poncho, the native Chilean garb, iii. 294

_Porcelaine-craquelée_, ii. 440

_Porta Aurea_ at Pola, ruins of, iii. 454

Port Curtis, North Australia, gold-fields of, iii. 48; fate of the gold-seekers there, 49

Port d'Islay, Peru, iii. 349, 350

Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), ii. 627; first settlement there of convicts, iii. 75

Potatáu, chief of the Waikato race, first king of the Maories, iii. 135

Praya Grande, promenade at Macao, ii. 405

Pré Catalan, pleasure gardens at Papeete, iii. 219-222, 235

Public Schools at Shanghai, ii. 443

Puka-puka, the New Zealand _papyrus_, iii. 147, 148

Pulicat-Lake, near Madras, i. 475

Punkah, its uses in India, i. 360

Purchas, A. G., pastor of Onehunga, iii. 155; first discoverer of the Drury coal-beds, New Zealand, 169, 181

Puynipet, Island of, visit to, ii. 551-588

Q

Quebradas, caves near Valparaiso, iii. 282, 288

Quillota, Chile, favourite summer resort for the residents of Valparaiso, iii. 314, 315

Quilpué, village in Chile, iii. 291; _fête champêtre_ there to the Expedition, iii, 292

R

Radhen Adipati Aria Kusuma Ningrat, a Javanese "Regent," ii. 264

Radhen Adipati Wira Natu Kusuma, a Javanese "Regent," ii. 238, 252

Radhen Rangga Padma Negara, a Javanese Chief, ii. 214

Radhen Saleh, a Javanese Artist, ii. 269

Raffles, Sir T. Stamford, his services to Singapore, ii. 138-140

Ragusa, iii. 452

Railroads--Rio, i. 161; Madras, 447-453; Batavia, ii. 204; New South Wales, iii. 20-43; Chile, 308-310; Isthmus of Panama, 429-438

Raimondi, Professor, at Lima, iii. 374

Rain-fall, annual amount of, in Gibraltar, i. 36; in Buitenzorg (Java),