INDEX. 



403 



Gentil, M. Le, voyage of, 161, 205 _ 

 Genuflexions, of Chinese priests, 257 ; 



of Master of Chinese House, 261 

 Geographical Dictiouaiy, xxvi 

 Geographical Society, Royal, 70 

 Geographie, Societe de, x, 308 

 Geography of Livio Sauuto, 311 

 " Geological Magazine and Quart. 



Journal of Geological Soc," xiv, 379 

 Gerbert, Archbishop, 132 

 Gergesites, 134 

 Gerkin cucumber, 230 

 Germain, Michel, companion of Mab- 



illou, Ixxix, Ixxxi 

 German edition, xxiii 

 German quarrel, Ixxix, Ixxxi 

 Germans, 236 

 Germon, sort of fish, 18 

 " Gestis Odonis," de, 133 

 Ghost, Holy, proceedings of, 131 

 Giants or Geants, big birds mounted 



on stilts, 41, 210 ; see appendix D 

 Gil Bias, romance of Le Sage, 178 

 Gilders, Dutch coins, two paid as 



tiger-money, 281 

 Giles, H , on Chinese Literature, 244 

 Gill, Dr. D., Astronomer Royal at the 



Cape, his wife's book on Ascension. 



300 

 Gilly-flowers, 56 

 Gilolo, or Gillolo, Island of, 236 



lizard of, ib. 

 Gioia, Flavio, inventor of the compass, 



108 

 Giraffe and lion, 280 

 Girandoles of flowers, 201 

 Gizzards of solitaires, stone found in, 



78 

 Glasgow, remains of solitaire in 



Museum at, 352, 376 

 Glass bells, 95 

 Glass, burning, 105, 187 

 Gloves at Genoa, 278 

 " Glossary," Nares', 93 

 Goa, 68 

 Goats, on Sal Island, 11 ; in Eden, 



44 ; at St. Helena, 300 ; sent to 



Rodi'iguez, 151 ; in Mauritius, 207, 



208 

 Goatskin, vessels of, 166 

 Gobert, Salomon, 110 

 God, beaten by Chinese, 260 

 God, indolent, of the Deist is no God, 



297 

 God, one worshipped by the Chinese, 



258 ; by the negroes, 296 

 God, will be worship'd with humility 



and simplicity of heart. 101 

 Godeau, Monsignor de, 22 

 Goderich, Viscount, Ixxi 



Gold, unknown to natives at Cape, 293 



Golden Book, or Sentences of Hoangti- 

 Xao, 243 



Goldfinches, 336 



Gold-fish, 10, 16, 205 



Gold hilt of Javan eric, 265 



Gold-smith, John de la Haye, 152 ; a 

 Dutch, ib. 



Golonasy, village of, destroyed by 

 Dutch, 236 



Gombrani Island, 327 



Oomen of the Maldivians, or amber- 

 gris, 153 



Gondolas at Venice, 119, 254 



Good Hope (Cape of), 30, 273 ; why 

 so'call'd, 30, 298 ; when discover'd 

 and by whom, ib. ; the bay greatly 

 expos'd to winds, 30, 273 ; its fort, 

 274 ; the company's gardens, 275 ; 

 the governour's pleasure - house, 

 276 ; fertility of the soil, 277 ; ani- 

 mals at the Cax)c, 278 ; the French 

 Minister of the Cape at work upon 

 translating the Psalms anew into 

 verse, 283 



Goodness of women, worse than 

 men's malice, 123 ; a false thing, 

 124 



Gordon, Sir Arthur, governor of 

 Mauritius, 70 



Gormaz, Count Lozauo de, 121 



Gory, M., xlviii 



Gospel, the, quoted, 243 



Gospel of St. Marl; or the antieut 

 MS. that bears that name at Venice, 

 was not written in Latin, but Greek. 

 (" It will be made out to Father 

 Montfaucon that the reasons he 

 brings for proving that MS. to be 

 Latin are not worth a farthing.") 

 Pref. Ixxxi 



Gossypium heirbadcnse, cotton, 327 



Gottingen, xxxiii 



Goubert, Alonso, xxxviii 



Gouda, city of, 192 



Gourami, 2i'5 



Gourds, various, 175 



Gouvernail I., 326 



Governor, Dutch, at the Cape, 32, 

 151, 275 ; Genei'al, in Java, 238 ; in 

 Mauritius, 151 ; marriage of, 169 



Governors of nations are not heirs 

 to the people, 130; ought not to 

 Buck their blood nor gnaw then- 

 bones, ib. ; are only to procure 

 peace and prosperity to the people 

 whereof they are members, 244 



Qoyer, Pieter de, Commandeur at 

 Mauritius, 148, Ivi 



Grain, wheat or milJet, 57 



