INDEX. 



305 



Comtc iVAnjcnson, the, xl 

 ConcubiDes, Javau and negro women 



as, 253 

 Conde, a so-called, 267 

 Condom, Bishop of, Bossnet, 258 

 Confections, at Genoa, 278 

 Confidant, the reader, 128 

 Confinement of Italian ladies, 124 

 Conflagrations of woods in Rodriguez, 



374 

 Confucius^ stilVl the wise King of 



Letteis, 243 

 Cougreuatiuu, of French refugees, at 



Zierickzee, 283 



of Malays at Batavia, 225 



Coningtou, Professor, translation of 



Virgil by, 136 

 Consanguinity, friends bj', custom of, 



in Africa, 291 

 Conscience, freedom of, denied to 



Huguenots in France, 1 ; allowed 



to Roman Catholics by the Dutch, 



225 

 Constantia, a pleasure-house of the 



Governour at the Ca])e, 27G 

 Consul, Amei'ican, 148, 174, 179 ; 



British, at Reunion, 174 

 Consumption, a lingering, 171 

 Contentious women, 124 

 Continent of Africa, discovered by 



Diaz, 298 

 Continent persons, 124 

 Controversies, 101 

 Convict estaljlishment for Batavia, at 



Mauritius, xxi, 147 

 Convolvwius Batatas, 207 

 ConiKiy, H.M.S., xlix 

 Coots, 44 ; Geant compared with Coot, 



362 

 Copeman, 194 



Copper Island, Rhytiua on, 383 

 " Copre," a French privateer or corsair, 



Dutch term for, 7 

 Copyist, imskilful, 131 

 Coq de bois, 211 

 Coq d'Inde, 358 

 Coracoiisis raza, 210 

 Coral, 43 ; point, 326 ; reefs, 47, 109, 



114, 119 ; bits of, worn by Hotten- 

 tots, 291 

 Corbeau, xliv 

 Cordage, 111 



C'o'donnicr, horse mackerel, 322 

 Cordova, 132 

 Corlieux, curlew, 329 

 Cormorant, 329 

 Corn, at Batavia, 228 ; at Bourbon, 



44 ; Cape, 277 ; Maurice, 207 ; 

 Rodriguez, 57 ; St. Helena, 299 

 Corn, bought by the State, 278, 282 



Corn, 33; carryVl from Holland to Isle 



Rodrigo, does not thrive there, 57 

 Corneille, Le grand, "Le Cid," by, 121 

 Corneille's '" Dictionnaire des Arts et 



des Sciences," 74 

 Co nish, Admiral, xlv 

 Corps de Guard, 224 

 Correspondence of Pastor Simond, 



extant at the Cape, 283 

 Correspondence of the He de France, 



320 

 Corsair, or "copre"', 7 

 Corselets, iron, of the Macassars, 264 

 Corypha umbracuUfcra, 52 

 Cossigny, M. de, 211 

 Cosftutin, in Normandy, IS (.sre Coten- 



tin) 

 Costume, summer, of Hottentots, 



288 ; winter ditto, ib. 

 Cotentin, in Normandy, 18 [sec 



Costeutin) 

 Cotes, Professor Roger, Ixxxi 

 Cotton, in Rodriguez, 327 

 Cotton, 44 ; mill, 204 

 Cotton, of the Lataniev, 65 ; of 



Pl((ntaii(s, 120 (see Cajrac) 

 Coudrier, 333 

 Council of justice, at Batavia, Cape, 



etc., xxi, 182, 183 

 Council of naval officers, 167 

 Council of Trent, 131 

 Country of delight, Eden or Masca- 



regne, 41 

 County of Hereford, Ixxi 

 Coup d'e'tat, at Bourbon, effected by 



the Cure' of St. Paul, 3 

 Courlis, 329 



Courtras, the battle-cry of the Hu- 

 guenots at, 283 

 Coutinho, Don Fernando, Marshal, 



312 et seq. 

 Cove, Bestel, Mauritius, 148 

 Covetousness the root of all evil, 190 

 Cow (A Sea), 28 



Cows, Kentish and Middlesex, 9 ; at 

 Mauritius, 208 ; at St Helena, 300 

 Coyawj, a measure of rice, 189 

 Crab island, 88, 326 

 Crabs (laud), 91 ; sea crabs, 93, 323 : 

 carry away a purse, ib. ; land and 

 sea-ciabs at Isle Maurice, 213, 372 

 Crater-cirques in Reunion, 42, 195 

 Crayfish, 213 



Creole 2>rttoZe, or snake gourd, 175 

 Creoles, 69 



Crest of parrot, frontal, 371 

 Cric, or crit, a poison'd poniard us'd 

 by the Javans, 264 ; those of Ma- 

 cassar and the Island of Celebes, 

 263 



