CONTENTS. 



ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS. 



Frontispiece: Skeleton of LiSgnat's SoUtnire, I\zoiJiaps SolUaria 

 Chart of Island uf Rodriguez, by Capt. Wharton, R.N., 18741 _ xvii 

 Frontispiece of Original French Edition, facsimile . . Ixix 



To face Title of original English Edition. 



Part L 



Carte de I'Isle de Diego Ruys ou Diego Rodrigo, facsimile 



L'Isle de Bourbon or INIascarefias, facsimile . 



View of Rodriguez, looking south, by E. Higgins, 1843- 



Chart of Mathurin Bay, by Capt. Wharton, R.N., 187ii 



View of Port Mathurin, looking west, by E. liiggins, 1843'^ 



Plan de I'Habitation, facsimile 



I^e Solitaire, or the Solitary-Bird, facsimile . 



Palseornis exsul, from The Ihit;^ 



1 Reduced from Admiralty Charts. 



2 From lithograph in The Dodo and its Kindred, by Strickland ai.d 

 Melville. 



3 For description, see Appendix B, p. 387 et s.q. 



