PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II. GOVERNMENT HEAD-HUNTING SLAVERY CANNIBALISM.
CHAPTER III. THE FEMALE SEX POLYGAMY MODES OF BURIAL, ETC.
CHAPTER IV. DWELLINGS TAMBU-HOUSES WEAPONS TOOLS.
CHAPTER V. CULTIVATION FOOD, ETC.
CHAPTER VI. THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERS AND RACE-AFFINITIES OF THESE ISLANDERS. [80]
CHAPTER VII. DRESS TATTOOING SONGS, ETC.
CHAPTER VIII. CANOES FISHING HUNTING.
CHAPTER IX. PREVALENT DISEASES.
CHAPTER X. VOCABULARY OF THE ISLANDS OF BOUGAINVILLE
CHAPTER XI. THE JOURNAL OF GALLEGO PREFATORY REMARKS.
CHAPTER XII THE STORY OF A LOST ARCHIPELAGO.
GEOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. NOTE I.
CHAPTER XIII. BOTANICAL NOTES IN BOUGAINVILLE STRAITS.
CHAPTER XIV. Reptiles and Batrachians.
CHAPTER XV. GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY NOTES.
CHAPTER XVI. LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS.
CHAPTER XVII. THE CLIMATE OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.
GENERAL INDEX.
Transcriber's Note
Title: The Solomon Islands and Their Natives
Author: H. B. (Henry Brougham) Guppy
Language: English
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THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
Map of Solomon Islands
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
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THE
SOLOMON ISLANDS
AND
Their Natives.
BY
H. B. GUPPY, M.B., F.G.S.
LATE SURGEON, R.N.
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LONDON:
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, LOWREY & CO.,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE,
1887.
S. Cowan & Co. Strathmore Printing Works, Perth.
