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INDEX. 



1 ; a republick bless'd by Heaven, 

 128 ; a wise and powerful republick, 

 250 



Holland, letters sent to, 55 ; memorial 

 forwarded to, 165 ; administration 

 of E. 1. Co. in, 192 ; seeds brought 

 from, 56 



Holland liturgy, Malay translation 

 of, 225 ; orders given in, 33 



Holland neatness, at Cape Town, 

 275 



Holland, New, 65 



Hollanders, a frank and obliging 

 people, 250, 287 ; Dutch families 

 settled at Isle Maurice, 371 ; at 

 Cape, 277, 293 



Hollands, aqua-vita;, 166 



Holy Ghost, proceeding of the, 131 



Holy house, at Loretto, 131 



Holy-water of the Chinese, 257 



Homagium diabolo, 132 



Homer, 132 



Hoods, serpent's, 234 



Hoofd Militaire, Olof Berg, at Cape 

 Town, 275 



Hooker, Sir J., 61 



Hoopoe, 93, 319 



Honan, coasts of, in China, 245 



Horace, "ad Virgilium", xxix, 118 



Horizon, 144 



Horn, fishes' fossil, 279 ; rhinoceros', 

 279 ; unicorn's, ib. 



Horn, city of North Holland, 220 



Horse (A) very fine in the Island of 

 Salt, 12 ; a wild horse, 281 ; 

 horses that have the tailing -sickness, 

 209 



" Horses and Coaches," misprint for 

 " Houses and Clothes", 296, 297 



Horses, wild, at Mauritius, 209 ; at 

 St. Helena, 300 



Hospital of Chinese, in Batavia, 225 



H6tel-de-Ville, 52 



Hottentots, natives of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, 285; etymology of that 

 name, ib. ; they are made to work 

 for small matters, 286 ; they are 

 very ugly and lazy, 287; their 

 manners and customs, 288 ; their 

 figures, ib.; their manner of dres- 

 sing, ib. ; their religion, 289 ; cir- 

 cumcision, ib.; what must be done 

 to make them work to purfiose, 

 29(1; their habitations, 291; they 

 punish adultery, theft and murder 

 severely, ib., 295 ; have a great 

 deal of humanity for one another, 

 296; their address at darting their 

 Zagaye, 293; the trade which the 

 Company maintains with them, ib.; 



they are skilled in simples, and 

 make use of them successfully in 

 curing of wounds, 294 ; they have 

 hereditary chiefs, ib.; these chiefs 

 only exercise their oflices in time 

 of war, and that too not always, 

 ib. ; they have divei'S customs for 

 the conservation of their kind and 

 the Republick, 295 ; they have no 

 knowledge either of reading or 

 writing, nor make any division of 

 time, ib.; their merry-makings and 

 dances, 296 ; the manner of the 

 young people's making love, their 

 union, ib. 



Hottentot women, 292 ; curious 

 treatment of male children as soon 

 as they are born, by, 289 ; why 

 they give them sea-water to drink, 

 and put tobacco in their mouths, 

 ib. ; they are generally more homely 

 than their husbands, 291 ; wear 

 raw guts about their necks and 

 legs, ib. ; their head-dresses, ib. ; 

 their character and figure, 292 ; be- 

 lieve themselves the finest women 

 in the Universe, ib. ; their con- 

 stitution and manner of dressing, 

 ib. 



House, Holy, at Loretto, 131 



Houses or hutts of Isle Rodrigo, 50, 

 55 ; houses of the Javans, 261 



Howe, Lord, Island of, 366 



Howlings of Hottentots, 295 



Hroswitha, 132 



Hudibras, 158 



Huesca, wine at, 166 



Hugo, Hubert, Commandeur of Mau- 

 ritius, Ivi, 151 



Huguenot prayer-book, 125 



Huguenots, 1,.I35, 136; list of, at 

 the Hague, 285 



Humanity of Chinese, 243 ; of Hot- 

 tentots', 292 



Humboldt, on gulf-weed, 302 



Hunger is the best sauce, 178 



Hunters in Mauritius, 155, 184 



Hunting at the Cape, 276 ; in Mau- 

 ritius, 146 ; by the Hottentots, 

 286 



Hunting, Hottentot children ren- 

 dered nimble for, 289 



Huntsmen of Governor, at Mau- 

 ritius, 155, 184 



Hurricane, furious, at Mauritius, 170; 

 in Rodriguez, 94, 95 



Hurricanes, an Indian wind (word), 

 36, 46 ; i-are in Isle Maurice, 214 ; 

 some ijretend that they come only 

 on the 9th February, 169, 170, 214 



