v.
36, 89, 107, 170, 173 _n._ 1, 189-90, 214, 215, 229-30, 231, 395; xxv.
376, 398; dedication of, xxiv. 374; review by Gosse, xxiv. 244;
success of, xxiv. 239, 255-6

United States, the, and Samoa, xxv. 6 _et seq._

Upolu and Savaii, xxv. 8

Vacquerie, ----, xxiii. 307

Vaea, Mount, xxv. 9, 135, 388; burial-place, xxv. 10 _n._ 1, 460

Vaea river, xxv. 132 _et seq._

Vailima, home at, xxiv. 291; purchase of, xxiv. 292, 372-3, 374, 377,
390; life at, xxv. 3 _et seq._, 148-51, 156 _et seq._, 280 _et seq._;
visitors to, xxv. 228; expenses, xxv. 282; household staff, xxv.
356-7; joy of colour at, xxv. 378; new house, xxv. 145-6, 251, 269,
271, 278-9, 284, 287; decorations for, xxv. 308-9; feeling about, xxv.
349

"Vailima Letters," xxiii. _intro._ xviii., xxix.; xxv. 5

_Vanity Fair_, magazine, contributions to, xxiii. 184, 198, 199

"Vanity Fair" (Thackeray), xxv. 154

Vedder, Elihu, illustrator of "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," xxiv. 116

"Velasquez" (R. A. M. Stevenson), xxiii. 57

"Vendetta, in the West," unfinished, xxiii. 229, 238-9, 241, 244, 255,
256, 259, 266

Verses, Miscellaneous and Impromptu--

"Adela, Adela, Adela Chart," xxv. 109

"Bells upon the City are ringing in the night," xxiv. 167

"Blame me not that this Epistle," letter in verse to Baxter, xxiii.
46

"Brave lads in olden musical centuries," xxiii. 304

"Dear Henley, with a pig's snout on," xxiii. 330

"Do you remember--can we e'er forget?--," xxiv. 376

"Far have you come, my lady, from the town," rondel, xxiii. 188

"Feast of Famine" (Ballads, 1890), xxiv. 298-9, 321, 330, 395

"Figure me to yourself, I pray," xxiii. 287

"He may have been this and that," xxiv. 190

"Here's breid an' wine an' kebbuck," xxiii. 257

"Home no more home to me, where must I wander?" (Songs of Travel),
xxiv. 303

"I heard the pulse of the besieging sea" (to Colvin), xxiv. 366;
xxv. 23 & _n._ 1

"In the beloved hour that ushers day" (Songs of Travel), xxiv. 240

"I was a barren tree before," xxv. 366

"I would shoot you, but I have no bow," xxiii. 360

"Let us who part like brothers part like bards" (Songs of Travel),
xxiv. 378, 380

"My Stockton if I failed to like," xxiv. 125

"Noo lyart leaves blaw ower the green," xxiii. 193

"Nor you, O Penny Whistler, grudge," xxi