410 



INDEX. 



Lao-Tzti, doctrine of, by H. Giles, 

 244 



Lapins, He des, 188 



La Perruke, or table cloth pheno- 

 menon on Table Mountain, 31 



Larboard, or left side of ship, 274 



Larding Pins (gallant), 268 



Lascar Bay, 325 



Latania, 52, 62, 63 et seq., 200 



Latanier, Toile de, 188 



Lataniers, sort of trees, 52, 59, 61, 

 63, 120, 332 



Latham, Gallinula alba of, 366 



Latin authors deprecated by Leguat, 

 Ixxx, 36, 137, 269 



Latitude, ignorance of, 303, 304 



Laughter of Hottentots, side-splitting, 

 296 



Laval, Pyrard de. Voyage of, 153 



Lave water out, to, i.e., Iiale a boat, 112 



La'w (the radical) among men, 245 ; 

 the law of Nature, is the only one 

 the Negroes at the Cape observe, 

 295, 297 



Lawrence, Rev. John, Ixxi 



Lavys, Divine and Humane, 81 ; pre- 

 cautions against disorders, ib. ; 

 laws are not efficaciously favouralile 

 to the poor, 246 ; laws of the 

 Hottentots, 295 



Laws, from customs, ib. 



Leaf-hatts, 180 



League of Augsbourg, 164, 272 



Leaves, plautane, 52, 62 et seq., 188 ; 

 chapel made of, 180 



Le Bourg, Ivi 



Le Clerc, M., xxv 



Le Gentil, M.. Voyage of, 161 



Legge, Professor, on Chinese philo- 

 sophers, xiii, 243 



Legger, or Legre, a Dutch measure 

 of wine, 278 



Leguat, Fran9ois, the author, 6 ; his 

 inscription, 127, 321, 330, 337 et 

 seq. ; 354 et seq. 



Leguatia Gigantea, 368, 370 



Leguat's Manati, 379, Solitaire, 

 Front. 



Le Guat, Pierre, xvii 



Le Guat de Fougere, xxxv; arms of, ib. 



Leipsic, xxiii 



Lemon valley, St. Helena, 298 



Lemons, 197 



Le Monnier, xli, xliv 



Lenoir, M., report to Council of 

 French East India Company by, 

 339 



Leopards, at the Cape, 278 ; horse 

 spotted like, 281 ; kills a burgher, 

 281 



Le Sage, author of " Gil Bias", 178 

 Lesueur, and Peron, MM., African 



travellers, 298 

 Letters, sent to Holland, not de- 

 livered, 55 

 Levaillant, and Barrow, MM., on the 



"tablier", 293 

 Leverian Museum, 366 

 Leviathan, of Milton, 23 ; of Cada- 



musto, 25 

 Leybourn, 51 

 Leyden, Walloon church at, 148 ; city 



of, 192 

 Libertas, sine Liccntid, a device of 



the Colony, and of Pope Adrian 



VI, 6 

 Libertins, free slaves become, 297 

 Liberty, Sweetness of, 1 ; of conscience 



to Roman Catholics at Batavia, 225 ; 



of Hottentots, unabridged, 290 ; 



a fatal happiness to negroes, 297 

 Libra, the constellation, xliv 

 Librarian of Arsenal in Paris, x, xxxv 

 Librarian of Soc. de Geogr., Paris, x 

 Library, London, xiv, 145 ; of Arsenal, 



Paris, 2 

 Lice and fleas, 85 

 Light, insupportable to the Chacre- 



latcs ; they turn night into day, 



270 

 Lighthouse, on He aux Fouquets, 159 

 Lignon, the famous, 49 

 Lime-burners, 29, 274 

 Limestone, 274 

 Limon, Mount, 120 

 Limons, 39, 44 

 Limon-trees, grove of, 197 

 Line (The), baptism or a ceremony 



observ'd in cutting it, 19 

 Line, gusts near the, 15 

 Line, repassing the, 301 

 Lines, fishing, 55 

 Linnean Soc. Journal, Q7 

 Lion, of monstrous size, carries off an 



ox, 280 ; fat of, a curative, 281 ; 



flesh of, good eating, ib. ; shot 



through heart, by Olcjf Berg, 281 

 Lions, at the Cape, 278, 280 ; a re- 

 ward given by the Company to those 



that kill them, 281 

 Lion's Head, a mountain, 30, 162, 



163 

 Liplaps, 240 



Liquor, a river of Force, 49 

 Liquor, delicious, of the palm, 62 

 " Lire du doigt", 123 

 Lisboa, Jean de, 317 

 Lisbon, 30, 312 



List of illustrations and maps, viii 

 " Literary Anecdotes," Ixxi 



