INDEX. 



413 



Meat aud drink, short allowance of, 

 160 



Meaux, Bishop of, 258, 259 



Mediterranean, a pilot of the, 10 



Medlar, 200 



Mela, Pompouius, 255, 269 



Melanospermeos, olive-coloured sea 

 weeds, 302 



Meldrum, Dr., meteorologist, in 

 Mauritius, 94, 214 



Meliuda, 234 ; King of, 314 



Melliss, monograph on St. Helena, by, 

 298 c« seq. 



Melons, excellent, 44, 56, 129 ; of 

 two kinds, 44, 56 et seq., 105, 108 ; 

 at the Cape, 278 



Melville and Strickland, on the Soli- 

 taire, xii, 1, 341, 352, 371 



" Memoire sur un Psittacus,'^ 85, 346 



" Memoires de I'Academie," xli 



Memoirs, on China, by the Jesuit 

 j)riest Le Comte, 259 ; on ancient 

 fauna of .Mascareue Is., 341 



Memoir on osteology of the solitaire. 

 352 



Memoires, Misson's, 24 



Memorial, forwarded to Holland, 165 ; 

 left in island, 52 



Menagerie at the Museum of Natural 

 History, Paris, 342 



Men, are commonly the corrupters of 

 women, 123 ; inhuman men, worse 

 than brute beasts, 171 ; all men 

 have an equal right to the goods of 

 Nature, 245 ; all are equal, 244 



Men-of-war, Dutch, chase by squad- 

 ron of, 8 



Mencius, the contemporary of 

 Chuang-Tsze, 244 



Menezes, Henri de, 310 



Mercator, map of, 312 ct seq. 



Mermaids, or Sirens, 380 



Merrifield, Miss, paper on Gulf-weed, 

 by, 302 



Merry-makings of Hottentots, 296 



Messias, the coming of the, 1 29 



Messieurs les Beaux-Esprits, 191 



Me'taphrasts, 46 



Metz, Paul Benelle a townsman of, 

 xxxiii, 6 



Mice, 212 



Michel, M., " Lais inedits" par, 39 



Middleburg, 192, 283 



Middlesex cows, 9 



Miers, M., Hi 



Miguonne, La, xli, 340 



Milan, Unicorns' Horns in cabinet at, 

 279 



Militaire Hoof 1, Willem Padt, 32 



Milleporidoe, corals, 110 



Millet seed, 44, 57 ; sent to Rodri- 

 guez, 152 

 Mills, for sawing boards, 205 

 Milman's "Ijatin Christianity," 132 

 Milne-Edwards, A., on Mascarene 



fauna, xi, 81, 82 ct seq., 320 et seq., 



341, 369, 370 ' 

 Milton, " Paradise Lost," by, 23, 68 ; 



" Paradise Regained," 87 

 Mine and Thine, two unhappy 



words, 80 

 Mines of Gold ; none to be found 



in the Isle of Java whatever, 



Vartomanni says, 269 

 Mingles, number of, in a Lcjre of 



^vfne, 278, 282 

 Minister, French Protestant, at the 



Cape, 282 

 Minister of Marine, 339 

 Misel Island, 326 

 Misers, 46 

 Missou, Henri de Valbourg, Memoirs 



on England, xxii 

 Misson, Maximilien, Preface, xxii, 



xxxiii, Ixxx, 5, 24, 51, 108, 124 ; 



Memoirs of, 254, 256 ; Letters of, 



130, 166, 259 

 Missy, M., xxxiii 

 Mithridatca, 202 

 Mitten, M., lii 

 Moas, New Zealand, 359 

 Mogul, the Great, 228 

 Moka, Moka, a Cry of the People 



of ilacassar, 264 

 Molana, an Arabian Chiek, 267 

 aiolenvliet, 222 

 Moles, the kingdom of, 265 

 Moliere, quoted, 46, 115, 162 

 M<_)llnscs, variety of, in Indian Ocean, 



179 

 Moucoutour, Coligny wounded at, 



283 

 Money, adventurers', seized, 159 

 Money of the Cape, 282 

 Monimia rotundifolia, 201, 202 

 Monk, rascally, 130 

 Monkeys, 372 

 Monoceros, a name common to 



divers sorts of animals that have 



but one horn, 279 

 Monopoly, Government, at Mauritius, 



206 ; at Batavia, 239 ; at the Cape, 



278 

 Monsoons, 60, 66 ; N.W., 227 

 Monsters, title of, given to Popes, 



130 

 Moutac, a large worm, 212 

 Montagne, des Cre'oles, 303; Longue, 



196 

 Montanus, Ixxix 



