INDEX. 



387 



Artocarpus intcgrifolia, 201 



Artove, island uf, (36 



Asoeusion, island of, Mars expedition 

 to, 300 ; sea elei^liauts of, 74 



Ascension, particulars of that island, 

 301 



Ashburuham MSS., 38 



Ashes, natives lying in, at the Cape, 

 291 ; used to fructify seed, 57 



Aslimolean museum, xlix, 1 



Ashmolean Society, President of, 

 Dr. Strickland, 1 



Asiatic Journal, 1 



Assassins, punished with death, 

 among the Hottentots, 291 



Assemblies of Hottentots, 296 



Assembly of Seventeen, the, 192, 283 



Asses, wild, at the Capo, 278 ; at 

 Island otSalt, 12; in Mauritius, 209 



Association, British, at Birmingham, 

 353 



Aston, Sergeant, liii 



AstrEcidie, corals, 110 



Astree, 1', 49 



Astrologer, Archbishop Gerbert, an, 

 132 



Astrology of the Hottentots, 295 



Astronouaer Royal, at the Cape, 

 Dr. Gill, 300 



Asylum, and refuge, for ships of all 

 nations, Batavia, 226 



Atheists and deists, 297 



Athene murivora, 333, 336, 344 



Atlantic Ocean, North, 301 et seq. ; 

 South, 298 



Atlas, English, by Ogilljy, 289 ci seq. ; 

 of Santarem, 308, 310 



Atte Attier, 200 



Aubonne, near Berne, 2 



Auchmuty, Sir Samuel, 221 



Auditor General of Mauritius, li 



Augsberg, league of, 164, 271, 272 



Auk. the great, 370 



Australia, 384 



Autcur qui I'explique, 1', 46 



Author (The) of this relation aban- 

 dons his country, and wherefore, 

 ], 127 ; his character, Pref.; rich 

 without riches, ib. ; makes a 

 good cheer without bread, 105 

 opposes a second embarking, 119 

 his country, 6, 127 ; his age, 6, 121 

 is very sick, 161 ; recovers himself 

 because there is no physician iu 

 his island, 162 ; his thanksgiving 

 hymn, 304 



Author, life of, introduction, xvii 



Author's preface, Ixxv 



Authors, whether they ought to 

 name themselves so, Pref. Ixxxiv 



Avare, 1', of Moliere, 46 



Avarice, root of all evil, 190 ; a vice 



unknown to the Hottentots, 296 

 Avenue, natural, 102 ; at the Cajic, 



275, 276 

 Avezac, M. d', xxxix, 315 

 Avis Indica, by Collaert, 361, 363 

 Avium Vivcp Irones, 363 

 Avi.ica, pear, 201 

 Azores, the, 301 



Babel, hanging gardens of, 275 

 Backgammon, trictrac, 104 

 Back-yards, of Dutch, at Black River, 



147 

 Badariiier, 201 

 Badge of slavery and subjection to 



the Tartars, 252 

 Baggs, gunny and vacoa, ISS 

 Bahamas, the, 301 

 Baie aux Huitres, 324 

 Bale de I'ile Furueaux, 146 ; du Cap, 



ibid. 

 Baker, J., Mr., on Mascarene flora, 



xiii, 62, 67, 70, 201 

 Balais, bois, 332 

 Baleine, or Whale, a Syriaque word, 



25 

 Balfour, F. H., on the Chinese classic, 



Nau-Hua, 244 

 Balfour, Professor I., Pref., xiii, li, 



52, 53, 57, 61, 65, 67 et seq., 87, 



202 ; Introd., 325, 327 et seq. 

 Baliers, inhabitants of Baly, 237 

 Balk, or Balken, stocks or " stombs", 



158 

 Baly, Island of, 264 

 Bamboo mountains, Mauritius, 147, 



206 

 Bamboos, very large iu the Island of 



Java, 225 ; huts made of, 261 ; 



stages of, for fireworks, 254 

 Banana, 52 

 Banane-trees, sent from Mauritius to 



Rodriguez, 152 ; in St. Helena, 299 

 Bananes, of Batavia, 229 ; of Bour- 

 bon, 44 ; of Mauritius, 198 ; of St. 



Helena, 299 

 Bananier, figured by Leguat, after 



Rochefort, 290 

 Banians, Banians' Tree, or I'arbre des 



Banianes, 68 

 Banishment, penalty of, at the Cape, 



278 

 Banks' Fort in St. Helena, 299 

 Bantam, 237 

 Bantam Bay, 271 

 Banyan, the, s.iv, 67, 68 



