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The Solomon Islands and Their Natives

by H. B. Guppy

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Chapter I — Introductory
  4. 4Chapter II — Government — Head-Hunting — Slavery — Cannibalism
  5. 5Chapter III — The Female Sex — Polygamy — Modes of Burial, etc.
  6. 6Chapter IV — Dwellings — Tambu-Houses — Weapons — Tools
  7. 7Chapter V — Cultivation — Food, etc.
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Physical Characters and Race-Affinities of These I…
  9. 9Chapter VII — Dress — Tattooing — Songs, etc.
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Canoes — Fishing — Hunting
  11. 11Chapter IX — Prevalent Diseases
  12. 12Chapter X — Vocabulary of the Islands of Bougainville Straits — Tre…
  13. 13Chapter XI — The Journal of Gallego — Prefatory Remarks
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Story of a Lost Archipelago
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Botanical Notes in Bougainville Straits
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Reptiles and Batrachians
  17. 17Chapter XV — General Natural History Notes
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Land and Fresh-Water Shells
  19. 19chapter XVII — The Climate of the Solomon Islands

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