INDEX/ 



Abbe de Choisy, Intro, xxx, Pref. 

 Ixx^ai, 223 



Abbe Pingr<^, xl, 337, 347 



Abbot Amiot, version of Plutarch by, 



Abercrombie, General, surrender of 



Mauritius to, xlvii, 375 

 Abominable crimes, absolution for, 



131 

 Abraham Du Quesue, 2 

 Abreu, Gomes d', 314 

 Absolution, sale of, 131 

 Abundance of variety, 105 

 Acacia, A. lebbek, 350 

 Academic des Sciences, Comptes 



Eendus, 320 et seq.; Memoires de 1', 



xli, xliv ; Histoire de 1', xli 

 Academie de St. Petersbourg, 360, 



3'18, 382 

 Academy, Royal, of Amsterdam, 359 

 Academy of Vienna, 366 

 Acanthophoenix, rubra, et crinita, 200 

 Accents, Greek, antiquity of, 81 

 Accident (an), like to have proved 



fatal, 302 et seq. 

 Acclimatisation, Jardin d', 376 ; 



society of, in Mauritius, 376 ; of 



game in Robben Island, 280 ; of 



plants in Bourbon, 44 ; at the 



Cape, 275 ; in Java, 228 ; at 



Mauritius, 206, 207 ; at Ptodriguez, 



56 ; at St. Helena, 299 

 Accomodeurs, or Botchers, 101 

 Acorns, oaks raised from, at the 



Cape, 276 

 Acosta, Joseph, " Histoire Naturelle 



et Morale des Indes", by, 286 

 Acre, 38 



An-idoiheres trisiis, starling, 211 

 A cti7iiid(e, corals, 110 

 Actium, battle of, 97 

 Acts, Book of, quoted, 101 

 Acugna, Vasco d', navigator, 309 et 



seq. ; cape of the island of, 21 

 Acunha, Tristan d', Isles of, 21, 26 et 



seq. 

 Adam and Eve, 121 et seq. 

 Adam's fig-tree, 199 



Adanson's "Voyage au Senegal," 110 



Adders, in America, 90 



Adeodatus, Pope, 158 



Adiantum Capillus Veneris, 333 



Administration of Dutch East India 

 Comjiany, 192 



Administrator, the, Don Joan Masca- 

 renhas, 308 



Administrators of grain magazines, 

 190 



Admiral, Bertie, xh-i, xlvii; Boscawen, 

 xxxix, 34 ; Cornish, xlv ; Kempen- 

 felt, 70 ; Stavorinus, 271 et seq.; see 

 Stavorinus. 



Admiral, vice, the Dutch, 272, 308 



Admiralty Charts, xvii, 1, 48 



Adonijah, by the stone of Zoheleth, 

 190 



Adonis, gardens of, 275 



Adoration, secret and interior, of sun 

 and moon, 297 



Adrian VI, Pope, 5 



Adultery, punished severely by the 

 Hottentots, 291,295 



Adventurers, their names, etc., 6, 

 135 ; arrive in the Island Rodrigo, 

 48 ; a plan of their habitations, 50; 

 their occupations, 99; their religion, 

 100 ; propose to quit that island, 

 105, 106 ; build a bark, 107 ; go on 

 board, 111 ; are shijjv^recked, 113 ; 

 return to the island, turn physi- 

 cians, 115 ; have a mind to embark 

 a second time,l 19, 126; the author's 

 re.ison for disswadiug it, ib.; lose 

 their title of free men, 127; leave a 

 monument in the Island Rodrigo, 



135 ; are kings of that island, 129 ; 

 have great resjaect for the Jesuits, 



136 ; why they quitted their coun- 

 try, 135 ; depart again from their 

 island, 139 ; care not for women, 

 147 ; are in great distress, arrive 

 at Isle Maurice, 145 ; pref er a rock 

 to a woman, are rob'd by the 

 governour of that island, etc., 155 ; 

 put in irons there, and wherefore, 

 158 ; j)illag'd by the governour, 159; 

 are sent to a desart island, 160 ; 



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