400 



INDEX. 



Escurial, jaw of whale preserved in 



the, 2i 

 Essential points of Christianity, 268 

 Essex, the whaler, charged by a sperm 



whale, 25 

 Estra]>ade, or bloc, 158 

 Etymology, English, Diet, of, 120 

 Eudes, M., xlviii 

 Eugenia cotinifolia, 331 

 Euphorhiacece, 201 

 Europeans in Java, 241 

 Europe, restorers of liberty in, 129 ; 



fish of, 76 ; driven out of, 54 ; 



corn of, 57 

 Evander, King, 136 

 Evangelical doctrine, 100 

 Eve, the cause of many evils, 121 ; 



was not created to remain a virgin, 



125 

 Events, chronology of, 1 

 Ex-Benedictine monk, Ixxv 

 Execution of negro slave, 182 

 Exhortations, j^ious, to companions, 



Leguat's, 162 

 Exile, rock of, 164 

 Exoccetus, Hying fish, 9 

 Expedition against the Hottentots, 



Dutch, 295 

 Exposition de la foi Catholique, 



Bossuet's, 258 

 Extermination of marine mammalia, 



73 

 Eyland Mauritius, Kaart van het, 



146 

 Eyries, M. J. B. Beuoit, xxiv, Ixxv, 



Ixxxviii 



F. 



Face de Judas, 332 



Factor, or copeman, 194 



Factors, British, beaten at Lantore, 



161 , 

 Fair, wide-awake, 301 

 Falbala, en, 292 

 Falling-sickness, 209 

 Falmouth Bay, Tristan d'Acunha I, 



26 

 Fan, great, used by Chinese, 251 

 Fancy, without example 

 Fan palm, 63 

 Faquors, 68 



Fat of lion, a splendid curative, 231 

 Father de Comte, 259 

 Fathers of their country; the duty 



of such as pretend to be so, 244 

 Fauna, ancient, of Mascarene Islands, 



80 ; disappearance of, 320 et seq. 

 Fautes a coi-riger, 148 

 Feast of Lanterns, at Batavia, by 



Chinese, 254 



Feet, how those of the Chinese 



women are rendered small, 253 

 Fellowship, good, among Hottentots, 



296 

 Female slaves, flogged, 181 : hanged, 



182 

 " Femmes savantes, les," 46 

 Fer, bois de, 331 

 Fernaudes, abbreviated to Friz, 315; 



Alvaro, 314 

 Ferrets, birds, 176. Sec Equerets, 



326, 329 

 Festival of Dragon boats, in honour 



of Wat-Yuen, 254 

 Feuille morte, un bout, 292 

 Feurs, on the R. Loire, 49 

 Fever, fit of, 175 ; epidemic in Mauri- 

 tius, 175 

 Fibre palm, rabannes of, 188 

 Ficiis rclijiosa, 69 ; rubi'a, var., 331 

 Fig, fruit of kastas like a, 69 ; fig 



trees, 43 

 Filao tree, or ccisuarina, 172 

 Filioque, in the creed, 131 

 Fillemot teats, 292 

 Finch, 355 

 Findlay's Lilian Ocean Directory, 34, 



66; 111, 113 et seq., 140, 271, 324 

 Fingers, joints of, cut by Hottentots, 



291 

 Fire, at I le Maurice, 180, 181 

 Fire, St. Elme's, 37 

 Fires, great, as signals, 120, 185, 189; 



as cause of destruction at Rod- 

 riguez, 357 

 Fireiin, the Sieur, Commissioner at 



Bourbon, 3 

 Fire-works, artificial, 254 

 Fish, darted by Hottentots, 293 

 Fish, with horns, 279 

 Fish (flying) of divers kinds, 9 ; 



number of fish in Eden, i, 43 

 Fish, at Batavia, 231 ; Bourbon, 43 ; 



Mauritius, 205 ; Rodriguez, 64, 



331 ; St. Helena, 300 

 Fishery, sea-turtle, xl 

 Fishes, study of, Giiuther's, 97 

 Fishing, nets for, 160 ; and lines, 55, 



173, 209, 371 

 Fiskiu, 211 



Flac, what it is, 149, 205 

 Flacour (Monsieur de) jjlauted the 



French standard in the Isle of 



Mascaregne, and gave it the name 



of the Isle of Bourbon, 41, 317 

 Flacourt, M. de, Ivi, 28, 41, 308; 



pillar of, 317 

 Flak, Flacq, or Flac, 149, 196, 205 

 Flamans, or flambeaux (blazing) 



birds, why so called, 114 



