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INDEX. 



Baobab, iuscrijjtiou ou trunks of, 

 110 



Baptism, a Ceremony us'd by the 

 Seamen ujjon cutting the Line or 

 Tropicks, 19 ei seq. 



Bar of Batavia, the, 216 



Barbarians at the Cape, 291 



Barbier, M., xxxii 



Barclay, Captain, 352 



Bark, a singular sort, 105, 107, 113, 

 126 ; weather-beaten, 146 



Barkly, Sir Henry, 67 



Barley, 44 



Barn-Rats, 46 



Barometer, usefulness of, treatise ou, 

 Ixxi 



Baron Grant, " History of Mauritius," 

 by, XXXV ; See Grant 



Baronius, 130 



Barracks of Artillery, in Port Louis, 

 375 



Barrel, without a head, 165 



Barriques, 163 



Barrier reefs, of coral islands, 109 



Barrow and Ijcvaillant, MM., ou the 

 " tablier", 293 



Barros, quoted, 316 



Basking shark, 322 



Bassin, Grand, Crater Lake of, 146 



Bass's Straits, otaries of, 74 



Batavia, Bay of, 226 



Batavia, 41, 182, 190, 191, 216 ; 

 situation and description of that 

 city, 225 et seq. ; of the citadel, 222; 

 the place of arms fiU'd with fine 

 houses, 223 ; churches of Batavia, 

 224 ; extent of its suburbs, 225 ; 

 its garde a, ib. ; its harbour very 

 fine, 226 ; this city the general 

 magazine of the Company, ib. ; 

 the Asylum of ships of all other 

 nations, ih. ; temperateness of the 

 climate, 227 ; ordinary drink of the 

 inhabitants, 228 ; the fruits, 229 ; 

 the animals eaten there, 231 ; little 

 game there, ib. ; a great deal of 

 fish, ib. ; Batavia is no city of 

 good cheer, 232 ; inhabited by divers 

 nations, 236 ; languages spoken 

 there, ib. ; manners and customs 

 of the inhabitants, 239-261 



Council of Justice at, 193 ; fish 



from, 205 ; sharks at, 96 ; collec- 

 tion at, for French refugees in Cape 

 Colony, 285 ; Diodati in, 148 ; im- 

 palement of a Macassar slave at, 

 182 ; length of voyage from, 304 ; 

 voyage to, 216; from, 302 



Battery, on He de la Passe, 159 ; 

 Queen's, 209 



Batts, as large as hens, in the Isle of 

 Eden, and withall good to eat, 54 ; 

 they are likewise in the Island of 

 Rodrigo, 85 ; they are not over good 

 to eat, 45, 85 ; delicate food in Isle 

 Maurice, 211, 347, 372 

 Baupet, Father de, Bishop of Alais, 



259 

 Bay, of Anjer, 271 ; of Batavia, 226 ; 

 of Bantam, 271 ; Both's, 172; Mapou, 

 173 

 Bayeux, 18 

 Bayle, M. Pierre, " Nouvelles de la 



Republique," par, xsxi 

 Beads, chaplets of, worn by Chinese 

 ])riests, 257 ; by devotees at Loretto, 

 132 

 Beaijle, voyage of the, 66, 91 

 Beak-head, of the ship, right of cut- 

 ting off, 21 

 Beam of oak, found at Rodriguez, 107, 



150 

 Beans, at Eden, 44 ; St. Helena, 299 

 Beans, kidney, 372 

 Beards, valued by the Chinese, 251 

 Beaulieu, General, 161 

 Beauty, frail, 122 

 Beauvais, Vincent of, 132 

 Beaux- Espr its, 191 

 Becassines, 85 

 Beckmann, Jean, xxxiii 

 Bed-cloaths, taken fi-om adventurers, 



159 

 Beds of State in China, 255 

 Beef, buftalo, 231 ; sold by Dutch 



Company at the Cape, 282 

 Beer, from Brunswick, or Mum, 228 ; 



cheap at the Cape, 282 

 Beetles, 46 



Beggars, none at Batavia, 240 

 Behring, Vitus, 382 

 Behriug's Island, 74, 382 ; Straits, 383 

 Bek, the Reverend Heudrik, succeeds 



Mr. Simond, 283 

 Belcher, Sir E , 66 

 Belisarius, Justinian's general, 134 

 Bell, glasses, 95 

 Bellin. map by, 309 

 Benediction, song of, 22, 19] 

 Benelle {Paul), one of the adven- 

 turers, xxvii, xxxiii, 121, 122, 135 ; 

 his country, 6, 53; his eulogium 54 

 [he at present lives at Amsterdam], 

 218 

 Bengal, bulls from, 208 ; birds from, 



210 ; ship going to, 213 

 Bengala, 228 

 Bengali, 352 

 Benjamin, Rabbi, Ixxix 

 Bcnjoin, 329 



