5H 



Index. 



406 ; chemical analysis of its leaves 



at Gottingen, 406-409 

 Cocain, the organic base of the Coca 



leaves, discovered at Gottingen, iii. 



407 

 Coccus Pela, the tree-wax insect of 



China, ii. 518 

 Cochineal, i. 82 ; plantations of, at 



Pondok Gedeh (Java), ii. 210 

 Cockatoo Island, Port Jackson, iii. 49 

 Cock-fighting in Manila, prevalence of, 



ii. 312 

 Cocoa-nut and palm, iii. 243 

 Coffee-culture in Ceylon, i. 377-379 ; 



in Java, ii. 242-244 

 Coggerah Bay, New South Wales, iii. 



58 

 Colic, the dry or vegetal form of (Ta- 

 hiti), iii. 260 

 Colonization of the Nicobar Archi- 

 pelago, attempts at, ii. 1-15, 128-131 

 , French principles of, com- 

 pared with those of England, iii. 



250, 251 

 Comet of 1858, ii. 594 

 Comprador, a Chinese, described, ii. 



360-362 

 Concordia, military association of (Ba- 



tavia), ii. 268 

 Confucius, temple of, at Shanghai, ii. 



433 

 Constantia wine, statistics of manu- 



fiicture of, i. 255 

 Convict question considered, iii. 72-90 ; 



settlement at Singapore, ii. 164-168 

 Cook-River Bay, New South Wales, 



iii. 58 



Cook's Straits, New Zealand, iii. 95 



Coolie trade, its dimensions at Macao, 

 ii. 397-401 



Cooper, Sir Daniel, his country seat, 

 and hospitable reception by, iii. 16 



Copiapo, Chile, copper and silver mines 

 of, iii. 341, 342 



Coquimbo, port of, iii. 340 



Coral reef of Puynipet, ii. 556 



Corregidor Island, Manila Bay, ii 279 



Corroborry, dance of the Australian 

 aborigines, described, iii. 34 



Cowries, mussel shells, used as cui*- 

 rency, i. 394 



Crocodiles in Madras, i. 449 ; in Ma- 

 nila, ii. 337 



Cruera Patuoni, a New Zealand chief, 

 his address to the members of the 

 Expedition, iii. 103 



Cuba, statistics of tobacco culture in, 

 ii. 320 



Culture system adopted in Java, fea- 

 tures of the, ii. 244-246 



Curacavi, village in Chile, iii. 295 



Curare, the Indian p\^ison, i. 138 (5y 



Curcuma longa, ii. 562 



CuxTy, its constituents, i. 368 



Cuzent, Dr. G., valuable work on Ta- 

 hiti by, iii. 215, 247 



Cyclones, or hurricanes, speculations as 

 to origin of, i. 183-185, ii. 547-549 ; 

 description of one, 538-547 



D 



Dagga, Tascha or Takka, used by 

 the Hottentots as a masticatory, i. 

 241 



