Volume 1

Pacific Islands / by J.W. Davidson [and others].

  • Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
Date:
1945
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pacific Islands / by J.W. Davidson [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Potassium, 113, 114 Pottery, 374, 420, 421, 446 (with plates), 448-9 Potuma, 402, 426 © Poultry, 232 Poutasi, 236 Prado, Don Diego de, 248 Prawns, 179 Presbyterians, 483, 485 Press, 361, 485-6 Pritchard, W.P5:295, 311 Prognathism, 364, 366 Pronouns, 379-87 passim, 394-5 Prosopis, chilensis, 139 (plate); juli- ford, £16, 147, 271 Prospecting licences, 496 Protected state, 2; see also Tonga Protectorates, 2-3; see also Futuna (Hoorn islands); Solomon islands ; Uvea (Wallis island) Proterhinus, 180 Protestant churches and _ missions, 264-8, 273, 309, 323, 483, 485; see also American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions; Hawaii- an Evangelical Association; Hawaii- at. Reformed Catholic Church; London Missionary Society; Mela- nesian Mission; Methodists; Mor- mons; Presbyterians Provisions, see Refreshments Pseudoscarus abacurus, 233 Psidium cattleianum, 144 (plate) Psidium guajava, 144, 147, 152 Pteropod ooze, 52, 53 (fig.) Pteropods, 190, 191 (fig.) Public works, 462, 463, 464, 500 Puffers, 206 Pukapuka, 104 (table) Pulen‘u, 470, 476 Pulses,. 363 [ Pumice, 13, 29, 30, 32, 106 Pump-drills, 447 Punahou School, 479 Punjabis, 174 Punta Bacalao, 29 Purari, river, 365; delta, 402, 422 Quails, bustard, 185 Quartan malaria, 216 Quartz, 106 Quartzite, 13 Queen Charlotte sound, 257 Queensland, 296, 301 (fig.), 302, 303, 306, 319, 323 Quinine, 555 Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de, 242 (fig.), 246-8, 249, 258 591 nications, 529 (fig.), 531 (fig.), 533, 535, 538 (fig.), 539; hospital, 235 ; military operations, 558, 559; popu- lation, 337; printing, 395 ; volcanic activity, 30, 464 Rabbits, 155, 182 Racial groups, Physical types Radio, 361, 486-7 (with table), 539 Radiolarian ooze, 52, 53 (fig.) Rafts, 373, 438 Raiatea, 236, 256, 266, 277, 298, 376, 377) 475 Railways, 530, 536 Rails, 184 (fig.), 185, 186 Rainfall, 81-7 (with figs.), 107, 115, 118, 131, 549; annual, 103 (table); con- vectional, 81; daily, 102 (table); hurricane, 82; monthly, 1o1 (table), 103 (table); nature, 85-7; oro- graphic, 81, 83; regimes, 84 (fig.), 85; seasonal, 83-5; variability, 83 Raised reefs, see Coral reefs: Elevated Raivavae, 266 Rakahanga, 368 Ramage, see Lineage Ramapo, U.S.S., 10 Ramu valley, 109, 144 (plate), 559 Ranching, 513 Range of temperature, altitudinal, 76-7; diurnal, 75-6, 98 (table) ; ocean, 188 : seasonal, 75-6, 98 (table), 118, 136, 207 Raoul island, 32 Rapa, canoes, 430-1 (fig.) ; climate, 65 ; health, 226; history, 301 (fig.), 302, 316; lignite, 18; migrations, 375 (fig.); population, 338 (fig.); shore levels, 23; time, 554 (fig.) Rarotonga, climate, 92 (table), 99 (table), 1or (table), 102 (table); communications, 529 (fig.), 531 (fig.), §33,: 5362 (fig:);- education, . 4805 health, 223; history, 266, 267, 277; hospital, 236; soils, 112; traditions, 377, 429; vegetation, 119, 144 Rata, 162 Rat-bite fever, 220 Rats, PST, 162, 163, 227, 2355 418 (fig.) Rattans, 138, 514 Rattus exulans, 182 Ravi, 400 (plate), 402-4, 422 Rays, 429, 442 Reafforestation, 169, 175 Reao, 226, 236, 430-1 (fig.) Recruiting, 474 Red, clay, 52, 53 (fig.), 54; coral, 203 ; earth, 109, 112 Redscar bay, 217 (fig.) see Ethnic groups; trap,
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