INDEX. 



415 



Nazare, Isle de, 358 



Nazaret, oiseau de, 358 



Nazarvogel, xliv, 360 



Necessity does all, 106; a spur for 

 work, 290; assisted by Hottentots, 

 293 



Neck, Jacob van, 210 



Necropsittacus rodericanus, 333, 336 



Needles, Cape, or Cape Agulhas, 34 



Neerwiuden, victory at, 164 



NefiF, Bois de, 332 



Negligence of purveyors, 160 



Negro, 10 ; slaves set fire to the fort, 

 181 ; price of, 282 



Negro Slave (A), being about to be 

 executed, desires to have one cast 

 at dice before he dies, 182 ; Liberty 

 fatal to, 297 



Negro Women have good features 

 at Batavia, according to the notion 

 we have of beauty, 270 ; their 

 complexion is subject to none of the 

 inconveniences the white are, 270 



Negroes at Batavia are fine men, 269 ; 

 of Madagascar, Ceylon and the 

 Cape, 282, 296; their customs, ibid. 

 They say they worship but one 

 God, yet they pay adoration to the 

 sun and moon, 297 



Neighbours to the Cape, Hottentots, 

 295 



Neptune, son of, 171 



Nerac, Jacques de La Case, a towns- 

 man of, 6 



Nests of pigeons in Rodriguez, 82 



Netherlands, .... Huguenots from 

 the, 277, 283 



Netherlands, National Museum of 

 the, 358 



Nets, for fishing, 55, 160, 173, 209 



Neural arch of vertebra in tortoise, 

 perforated, 376 



New Caledonia, 370 



New Horn, 220 



" New Voyage to Italy," A, by Max 

 Misson, 5, 51, 108 



New Zealand, 342, 359, 370 



Newton, Professor A., Preface, xii, li, 

 74 ; notes by, 178 ; on fauna of 

 Rodriguez, 319 et serp, 336, 337 

 et seq., 352, 371 



Newton, Sir E., Preface, xii, li ; notes 

 by, 45, 90 ; on fauna of Rodriguez, 

 Appendix, 319 et seq., 336, 337 

 et seq., 352, 369 



Nichols, Ixxi 



Nieuland, Adriaan, Ivi, 148 



Night herons, 81, 210 



Nightingale Island, Tristan d'Acunha 

 group, 26 



Nights and days equal at Batavia, 



227 

 Nile, inundation of, 171 

 Ninox madagascaricnsis, 344 

 Nobility, ibid. 

 Noble, Chas. F., xl 

 Nobles, False Nobles, 130 

 Nocturnal lizard, 86 

 Noddy-terns, or Noddies, 298, 301 

 Noire, Riviere, Piton de la, 146 

 Noort Wester Haven, 149 

 Norfolk Island, Gallinula of, 366 

 Normandy, coast of, mackarel on the, 



18 

 Noronha, Garcia de, 309 

 North Holland, 220 

 North, Sir Thomas, translation of 



Plutarch by, 145 

 Northleigh, Dr. John, description by, 



226 

 North-west Port, afterwards Port 



Louis, 149, 188, 195, 196 

 Notornis, 366, 370 

 " Nouveau Voyage en Italic," xxsi, 



xxxiii 

 "Nouvelle Relation de la VilleVenise," 



xxxii 

 " Nouvelles de la Republique des 



Lettres," Introduction, xxvi, 59 

 Novice in Convent, 176 

 " Novus Orbis," the, by Hervagius, 



24 

 Nuchal vertebra of tortoise, 376 

 Numcnivs arquatus, 351 ; phceopus, 



329 

 Numid/a mitrata, 346 

 Numidia, stone pillars in, 134 

 Nutmeg, 200 



Nuts, of the Bois d'Olive, 53, 337 

 Niixia verticillata, 333 

 Nux, M. de la, 161 

 Nux vomica, 264 

 Ni/etar/iriaceeP, 329 

 Nycticorax megacephalus, a night - 



heron of Rodriguez, 81 



0. 



Oak, beam of, found at Rodriguez, 

 107, 150 ; hearts of, 118 ; King 

 Charles', 51 



Oaks, at Cape Town, 276 



Oars, 139 



Oats, 44 



Observatory at St. Denis, Re'union, 36 



Ocean, Indian, shells of, 179 



Ocean, South Atlantic, 298 



Ocomsiao, a rich plain, the prey of 

 a noble lord, 249 



Ocydromus, 342 



