INDEX. 



389 



Berg, Olof, Commandant of Fort at 



Cape Town, 32, 275, 281 ; shoots a 



lion, ibid. 

 Berg, de Zaal, a remarkable bluff 



mountain, 162 

 Berkeley, Mr., Hi 

 BerUey Castle, the, 371 

 Berlin, 2 



Berne, Manufactory Hall at, 2, 135 

 Bernard I'Hermite, 213 

 Bernard, M. Jacques, Bayle's succes- 

 sor, xxvi, xxxiii, Ixxxviii 

 Berne, xxiv 



Bessin, in Calvados, Normandy, 18 

 Bestel Cove, Mauritius, 148, 197 

 Betel, the leaf of a shrub much in 



use at Batavia, 229, 264 

 Betrothal, ceremonj^ of, Chinese, 252 

 BezM, Theodore, Psalms, version of, by 



Marot and, 12, 283 ct scq. 

 Bhavabhuti, 264 

 Bible, translation of, into Italian, 148 ; 



Le Bible de Guyot, 108 

 Bibliography of works mentioned by 



author, xviii 

 Bibliotheque d'aventures, xxxvi 

 Bibliotheque Augluise, xxxii 

 Bibliotheque Britannique, xxiv, xxxii 

 Bibliotheque de la Marine, catalogue 



de la, xxviii 

 Bibliotheque Nationale, xi 

 Biche-en-rut, 175 

 Bieli Tsar, Belisarius, 134 

 Bigots of the Calholick religion, 5 

 Bigottry and superstition dishonours 



religion, 131 

 Bilged, or bulged on the sands, ship, 



150 

 Billets and magick characters, 264 

 Biogiaphie Universelle, xxiv 

 Bird fauna of Rodriguez, ix 

 Bird I., 159 

 Birds, of the Isle of Edeu, 44, 49. 319 ; 



of Isle Maurice, 178 ; of the Kock, 



176 ; of St. Helena, 298, 300 

 Birds of Ascension Island, 301 ; of 



Bourbon, 45, 319 

 of Mauritius, present avifauna, 



178 ; extinct avifauna, 320 ct acq. 

 of Rodriguez, present avi- 



fauna, 49 ; extinct avifauna, 49, 77 



et scq., 320 et scq. 

 Birds, laud, 45, 77 



sea, 21, 82, 176 



Birgus latro, 91 



Birmingham, British Association 



meeting at, 353 

 Biscuit, 55, 105 ; white, 166 

 Bishop of Alais, 259; of Condom, 258; 



of Grasse, 22; of Meaux, 258 ct scq. 



Bitterns or Butors, 44, 81, 210, 335, 343 

 Bitumen, black, 87 

 Bivar, Rodrigue Diaz de, the Cid, 121 

 Blaauwberg, beach. Penguin island 



near, 29 

 Black-backs, whales so called, 22 

 Black, Captain, xlix 

 Black, that colour hath its beauty,265 

 Blackbirds, 44, 211 

 Black Lion, the, a Dutch slii]i, 31 

 Black River, Mauritius, 146 et seq., 



174, 19.3, 207, 208, 209 

 Black South-Easter, a peculiar mist, 



272 

 Blackwood's Magazine, account of 



Robben Island iu, 273 

 Blainville, de, Sirenia classed with 



elephants by, 75, 380 

 Blanche Mountains, 2U6 

 Blanfort, M., xxxiii 

 Bloc, or estrapade, stocks, 158 

 Blockade of the Mascarene Islands, 



xlvi 

 Blood of deer, sucked by tigers, 281 

 Blood, flux of, 161, 220 ; letting with 



a pen-knife, 170, 171 

 Blue-bird of Bourbon, 370 

 Blume, the author, 264 

 Boa Esperanca, 30 

 Board of Deacons, at Batavia, 285 

 Boars, wild, in Maurice, 208; iu Java, 



231 

 Boats, races of light, at Batavia, 254 

 Boatswain bird, 329 

 Bochart, quoted, 25 ; Bochartus, 



Samuel, his Hierozoicon, ib. 

 Bodkins, oruament.s to the Chinese 



heads at Batavia, 242 

 Boen, 49 



Boeuf, bird named, 327 

 Bohun, Upas, the poison tree of Java, 



264 

 Boileau, Ixxix 

 Bois, cabri, 69 ; d'olive, 53, 110, 350 ; 



puaut, 69 ; jasmin, 201 ; mapou, 



201 ; tambour, 202 ; de Tierle, 202 ; 



Bois, various, named in " Relation 



de Rodrigue", 331 et seq, 

 Bois, Gros, the, 203 

 Bonaparte, He, xlvi, 3 

 Bonavista, Island of, 15 

 Bonds of marriage, observed by 



Hottentots, 291 

 Bongart, Christiaan, dedicatory letter 



to, Ixi 

 Bonitos, fish. 10, 17 

 Bonne Vue, Isle de, 14 

 Boobies, and noddy-terns, 82, 8H, 301, 



326, 347, 352 

 Booby Island, 88, 324 



