xviii ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA. 



south bastion is Rhown as larger than the others, viz., " le Saphir". Opposite 

 the south bastion, beyond the ditch, is a wide glacis on the land side, on which 

 • is conspicuously marked VEchafaut a faire Justice, close by the stables of the 

 Company's officials :— a significant indication of the cruel means employed by 

 the Dutch to preserve a bloody discipline of terror over the slaves, blacks and 

 natives. A ditch is shown around the fort, but it does not wholly surround 

 it, and was probably more in the nature of a shallow inundation, being at 

 some little distance from the base of the escarp of the ramparts of the enceinte. 

 Doubtless, it was often dry, which would account for the discrepancy in the 

 statements. 



P. 259, top line of notes For " Father de Baupet", read " Father de Baus- 

 set". 



P. 272, note. After "King of England", add "The Treaty had been signed 

 on 11th Septbr,,four months before Leguat heard of it when near the Cape." 



P. 298, note 2. After "Captain Stephen Poirier", add "Vide Hedges^ 

 Diary, vol. iii, p. xcvii, ■where Mr. Poirier is mentioned as Governor of St. 

 Helena in 1704-5." 



P. 358 " Oiseaux de Nazaret", line 358, add below note, " Cf. Bory de St. 

 Vincent, vol. ii, pp. 305-306." 



P. 374, line 18. " There is not a single living example left alive at the 

 present day." Add below in note, " The last tortoise was killed in Reunion, at 

 St. Philippe, by a Creole, towards the end of the last century (cf. Maillard, 

 op. cit., p. 148). Bory de St. Vincent examined the carapaces of two of these 

 tortoises in the year 1801, which he figured and described as Testudo tricaii- 

 nata tcstd ovata-ohlonga tricarinatd, postice ohtusd decern dentatd." N. PI. xxxvii, 

 fig. 1. — {Vojjafje dans les quatrc iwincipales lies des mcrs d'Afrlque, vol. ii, 

 p. 308.) 



P. 405. For " Higgins", read " Higgiu". 



