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INDEX. 



Cries of Hottentots, 290 



Criminal affairs in Dutch colonies, 

 182 e;" scq. 



Crocodile's head, serpent with a, 174 



Crocodiles, common in the Isle of 

 Java, 233 ; what is said of them, 

 ih. ; a reward given by the Com- 

 pany to those that kill them, ib. ; 

 the tiesh is good to eat, ib. ; fables 

 related of them, ib. 



Croker's edition of Boullaye-Le- 

 Gouz, 68 



Crombie, Mr., lii 



Cross and thorns of tribulation, 135 



Ci'ow, Indian, represented in De Bry's 

 engraving, 371 



Crowns of chiefs, or kings, in S. Africa. 

 295 



Crowns, or ecus, Dutch money, equiva- 

 lent of, 154, 282,291 ; premium in, 

 for lion-killing, 281 



Crozettes, Islands, 74 ; Crozet I., 

 349 



Cruelty to French prisoners, 161 



Cuciunbers, in Eden, 44 



Cucurhita. potcria, 175 



Cunha, Tristan da, 314 ; see Tristan 

 d'Acunha, 21, 26 



Cuuuinghame, Mr., xlix 



Cups, shells used as, 179 



Cure of malady by nature, 161, 162 



Cure of St. Paul, Bourbon, Pere 

 Hyaciuthe, 3 



Curiosity, pernicious in matters of 

 Religion, 100 ; prurient, 292 



Curlew, 8, 351, 372 



Cvirreucy, Dutch and Indian, 287 



Current, rapid, 139, 168 ; Equatorial, 

 377 



Custard, apple, 200 



Custom : Custom is a tyrant, 133 ; 

 Custom becomes laws, 295 



Cuvier, M., xlix 



Cycle of sun spots, 215 



Cyclones, 36, lii 



Cyclopaedia, Rees', 65 



Cyproea, sp., 179 



D. 



Dactylopterns, 9 



Daendeis, General, 221 



Dalrymple's " Oriental Repository," 



xl, xlv 

 Damhouder, Joost de, on Dutch 



criminal jurisprudence, 158 

 Dampier, voj'ages by, 112 

 Dances, of the Hottentots, 289, 296 ; 



superstitious dances of the Neyroes 



at the Cape, 289, 297 



Danger of collision between ships of 



Dutch fleet, 302 

 Danish ships at the Cape, 31 

 Dapper's History of Africa, xxxiii, 273, 



289 et seq. 

 Darmigeaux, M., xxxiii 

 Darting fish, with a pole, 173 

 Darts ( poi.son'd), 264 

 Daruty, ,M., 376 

 Darwin, 66, 91 ; theory of, 105 

 Date tree, 200 

 Dates, 61 ; of plantane, 64 

 Daubertin, 45 



Daughters of Chinamen, invisible, 253 

 Dauphin, Fort, 317 

 " Dauphine, Relation de I'lsle," by 



Dubois, Ixi, 45, 256 

 Dauphine^, Reverend P. Simond of, 



282 

 David, Psalms of, 12 ; in French 



metre, 36, 283 

 Davis, Sir John, his work on China, 



244 

 Davis, voyage of, to East Indies, 309 

 Davvkins, Colonel, xlviii, 346 

 Days and nights equal, at Batavia, 227 

 De Bry, illustrations from " India 



Orientalis'", 371, 374, 381 ; map 



given by, 309 

 Deacons, IBoard of, at Batavia, 285 

 Dead Hottentots, lingers of friends 



buried with, 291 

 Dearness of provisions at Batavia, 



231, 232 

 Death, a messenger of good news to 



the faithful, 101 ; necessity of 



death, 162 

 Death of Chinese, questions asked at, 



255 ; punishment of, 253 

 Deecan, 68 

 Dedication of Dutch Edition, Ivi ; of 



English Edition, Ixii 

 Deer, blood of. sucked by tigers, 281 ; 



flesh of, in rutting season, at 



Mauritius, 177 ; at the Cape, 278 ; 



sent to Rodriguez, J51 ; in Java, 



233. 

 Deer-skins, 180 



" Deianara Herculi," Ovidii, 171 

 Deists and atheists, 297 

 Delft, city of, 192 

 Delirious, Isaac Boyer, 116 

 Delon, Dellon or Dillon, 39 

 Deluge of salt water, raised by wind, 



in huri'icane, 95 

 Demons, ador'd by the Chiueses, 259 

 Denis, St., 36 



Denmark, King of. Cabinet of, 10 

 Departure, from Cape, 34, 293, from 



Rodriguez, xxxvii, 139 



