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INDEX. 



Churches, French, xxii 



Cicero, Pref., Ixxviii ; gardens of, 275 



Cid, the, 121 



Cinnamon, 201 



Cintra, Pedro de, 23 



Circumcision, 2S9 



Circumference of Mauritius, measured 



by Lamotius, 151 

 Cirne, 314 et seq. ; vide Cerne, Ivi 

 Cirques, 42, 195 



Citron-trees, 151; citroen-boomen, 197 

 Citrons, hurtful in Isle Maurice, 175; 



of Isle Maurice, 197 

 Citrons, Cape, 275 ; Mauritius, 151, 



175, 197 ; St. Helena, 299 

 Citrouilles, 175 



Clapping of hands by Hottentots, 289 

 Clark, J. W., M.A., on the Solitaire, 



Introduction, lii, 356 

 Clas, a surgeon, 15i>, 152 

 Clerodaidron lanciniatum, 69 

 Cliffs of St. Helena, 298 

 Climate, at Batavia, 227 ; at Bourbon, 



39 ; at Cape, 276, 286 ; Mauritius, 



215; Rodriguez, 58; St. Helena, 299 

 Clove, spice, 201 

 Clover-grass, 56 

 Clytemnestra, 38 

 "Coaches and Horses", a misprint for 



" Clothes and Houses," 296, 297 

 Cobbler, horse mackerel, 322 

 Cobler, Dutch, with slave and um- 



brello, in Java, 241 

 Cochin, 310 

 Cochon marron, 208 

 Cockle-shells, worn by Hottentots,291 

 Cocks, cock-fighting, the peojile's di- 

 version at Java. 232 

 Coco Island, 66, 334 

 Cocos, or cocoes, 65 ct scq., 199, 229 

 (Jocos nucifera, nuts of, thrown on 



coast by the sea, 65 et scq., 199 

 Code of the Isle of France, 339 

 Codiue, M. Jules, of the Societe de 



Geographic, on the Mascareue Is., 



X. 41, 308 ct acq., 317 

 Coffee, 56, 229 ; as dear at Batavia 



as in Holland, 229 

 Coghlau, Lieut., chart cf Grand Port 



by, vii, 161 

 Coin de Mire, island near Mauritius, 



214 

 Cold, unknown at Batavia, 227 

 Coligny, wounded at Moncontour, 283 

 Collaert, viii, 361, 363 

 Collection of money at Batavia for 



French refugees in Cape colony, 



285 

 " Collectiones Peregrinationum in In- 



diam Orientalem," 371 



Cullet rouge, or flying fox, 45 



Colonic, Point de la, Mauritius, 148 



Colonies, Dutch, justice, administra- 

 tion of, in, 181, 182 ; described by 

 Valentyn, 275 



Colony, propos'd for the Isle Eden, 

 or Maicaregna ; 2. Projection for 

 that colony ; 3. Of the French re- 

 fugees at the Cape, 277 



Colophane Mauritiana, a large tree of 

 Mauritius, 152 



Coluinba rodericana, 82, 345 



Columbus, weed-sea discovered by, 302 



Columella, the '" siser" of, 288 



Column and inscription left at Isle 

 Rodrigo, 135 



Column, foiuid in Numidia, 134 



Columns of Hercules, 135 , of Ephorus, 

 309 



Colville, Sir Charles, Governor of 

 Mauritius, xlviii 



Combats, of male and female Soli- 

 taries, lii, 79 



Comedies, or Farces, and shows of 

 the Chineses, 253 



Commanders, Dutch, 36 



Commandeur, Pieter de Goyer, 148 ; 

 Hubert Hugo, 151 



Commentaries of Caesar, commen- 

 ded by Cicero, for the simplicity of 

 their stile, Ixxviii ; ci-iticiz'd upon, 

 279 ; unicorn mention'd in, ib. 



Commentary on the Testament, a 

 large, 99 



Commerce in cattle, forbidden to new- 

 comers at the Cape, 293 



Commerson, the father of Mascarene 

 genera, 202 



Common Hall (Hotel), 52 



Comorin, Cape, 310 



Comj^agnie des Indes Orientales, xix, 

 xxxviii, 339 



Company (the Butch) of the Fast 

 Indies, xvii, xxiii, 181, 182, 216. 217, 

 absolute, in the Island of Java, 237 ; 

 the Ginercd of that Company and his 

 lady make a great figure at Batavia, 

 239 ; the Company keeps the sol- 

 diers under, for preservation of the 

 liberty of their colonies, 241 ; keeps 

 up commerce with the Hottentots, 

 293 



Compass, the, invention of. 108 ; sub- 

 stitute for, ibid., 142 



Complements, 133 



Compression of feet of Chinese child- 

 ren, 253 



Comptes rendusdes seances de I'Aca- 

 demie des Sciences, 320 ct scq. 



Comte (Perc le) quoted, 259 



