"Why is a subject in which we are all keenly interested to be tabu?

A small potato field was placed under tabu, near the Morai, for the purpose of the observatory, and a camp under the command of King was established there.

A tabu was placed on the whole of the bay on the 24th, and trading came to a complete standstill, the reason given being the coming of the king, Terreeoboo.

Wood that had been cut at Eimeo for anchor stocks was used for fishing the head, and the work proceeded rapidly: the priests making the camp tabu, so that there should be no interference with the workmen.

Why should it be tabu on the stage?

He answered at once, with his usual direct simplicity, which continued to have for Sylvia at this period something suspiciously like the calmness of a reigning sovereign who is above being embarrassed, who may speak, without shamefacedness, of anything, even of moral values, that subject tabu in sophisticated conversation.

In the olden days the kings and chiefs would have made it tabu to themselves.

The idol-carriers were tabu.

It was tabu to Tahitians, harmless, and a voracious eater of insects.

Their chiefs and priests replied: "If your first man and woman took the lizard's word and ate fruit from the tabu tree, they should have been punished, and if their children killed the son of your God, they should have been punished; but why worry us about it?

Pomaré ate the tabu turtle of the temple, and a Christian nucleus was formed, headed by the sovereign.

" Second, the war is no longer tabu; witness "The Tribute," and "His Soul Goes Marching On."

In a paroxysm of rage and disappointment Kaaialii threw himself upon the ground cursing the tabu that barred him from his enemy.

The house was about twenty-five feet in length, and stood in a reed and bamboo enclosure, across the entrance to which a bundle of dried grass was suspended to show that it was strictly 'tabu.'

He told me that it was 'tabu,' forbidden for any men but their own relations to look at them; but I suppose the promised beads acted as an inducement, and so he sent away for some old lady who had charge, and who alone is allowed to open the doors.

This whole region is under the ban of a most terrific tabu, that loads unthinkable curses on any human being who removes a single atom of any metal from it!"

TABU.An article was one day read in a school relating to the "Tabu" of the Sandwich Islanders.

Tabu is a term with them which signifies consecratednot to be touchedto be let alonenot to be violated.

Thus, according to their religious observances, a certain day will be proclaimed Tabu; that is, one upon which there is to be no work or no going out.

A few days after this article was read, the scholars observed one morning a flower stuck up in a conspicuous place against the wall, with the word TABU in large characters above it.

So I concluded to label it Tabu.

I shall, in such a case, just mention that an article is Tabu, and you will understand that it is not only not to be injured, but not even touched.

The Tabu was always most scrupulously regarded, after this, whenever employed.

; Tonga-tabu is the largest; volcanic and fruit-bearing; missionary enterprise (Wesleyan Methodist) has done much to improve the mental, moral, and material condition of the natives, who belong to the fair Polynesian stock, and are a superior race to the other natives of Polynesia, but are diminishing in numbers.

"Kalaniopuu, the king, arrived from Maui on the 24th of January, and immediately laid a tabu on the canoes, which prevented the women from visiting the ship, and consequently the men came on shore in great numbers, gratifying their infamous purposes in exchange for pieces of iron and small looking-glasses.