INDEX. 



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Palma, Island of, 8 



Palmiste morron, 62, 332 



Palms, Isle of, 213 



Palm-trees, in Eden, 43; in Maurice, 



200 ; in Rodriguez, 52, 59, 61, 86, 



332 ct seq. ; Betel, 264 

 Palm-wine, 62, 105, 129 

 Pamplemousse, 197, 372; Botanical 



gardens of, 376 

 Pan, the god, 68 

 Paudanus, xiv, 103 ct scq.; 332, 350 



screw-pine on Vaquoas I., 172 



Panormita, verse of, 108 

 Papangars, or Mardykears, 236 

 Papaj'e-tree, 201, 292 

 Paradise, an earthly, 49 

 "Paradise Lost," quoted, 23; "Re- 

 gained," 87 

 Paradise, terrestial, Bourbon I., 41 

 Parallel lines of piles, at Batavia, 



226 

 Parasols, 64 

 Parat, M. de, xxxviii 

 Paretuvier, a particular tree, 68, 



69 

 Paris, Museum at, 345, 352; Mena- 

 gerie at Museum of Natural History 



in, 342 

 Paris pint, the, 278; Treaty of, 42 

 Parish, Captain, account of Batavia 



by, 223 

 Park of land-turtle, 70, 374 

 Paruakan Chinese, 237 

 Parnassus, Plains of, Ixxii 

 Parroquet, green, xli, 53, 210, 337 

 Parrots, great numbers of them at 



Isle Rodrigo, 58, 84, 105; the flesh 



of the young ones is good to eat, 



85 

 Parrots, in Eden, 44; in Rodriguez, 



53, 84; brought to Mauritius, 105, 



338, 341, 345; in Mauritius, 210, 



336, 372 

 Parthenope spinosissima, 213 

 Partridges, red, grey and white at 



the Cape, 280; in Eden, 44; at St. 



Helena, 300 

 Pasca lilamingos, 372 

 Passe Demie, 324 

 Passe, Isle de la, 159, 163, 178, 179, 



209 

 Passe Platte, 324, 327 

 Passes, or channels, breaks in the 



reefs, breaches, 112, 113 e< seq. 

 Pastor, of French Church at the 



Cape, 283; of Walloon Church at 



Leydeu, 148 

 Patates, or yams, 152, 207 

 Paternosters, muttering, 132 

 Patole, or snake-gourd, 175 



Patricius Vartomanni, Ixvii, 269; Re- 

 lation of, 24 



Patrick (St.) has banished venomous 

 creatures from Ireland, 214 



" Paul et Virginie," by Bernardin 

 de St. Pierre, 1 47 



Paul, St., Island of, 349 



Paul, Saint, quoted, 61, 122, 124, 190 



Paulist Christians, xliii 



Pavilion, Arbre, 103 



Payang, or sambreel. sunshade, 240 



Peace of Ryswick, xxi, 271 



Peace without fraud, 295 



Peach, 200 



Peacocks, wrongly translated from 

 Giants, 44 ; great birds on stilts, 

 45 



Pear, 200 



Pearl, the, Castleton's ship, Ivi; bas- 

 tion of citadel at Batavia, 223 



Pease in Eden, 44 



in St. Helena, 299 



Pedant, mad, 133; Pedants, 36 



Pedro de Cintra, 23 



Peerage of England, Nichols', Ixxxi 



Pelidna cinclus, 330 



Pellew, Sir Edward, 227 



Pelzeln, Dr. von, 366 



Pempliis acidula, 327 



Penal colony, 181 



Penalties, severe, for buying amber- 

 gris, 153 



Penalty of illicit trade at the Cape, 

 294 



Penderell, John, 51 



Penelope, La, 340 



Penguin or Robben Island, 29 



Pen-knife, blood-letting with a 170 



Pcntapns dux, 322 



People that love images, 257; have 

 no ideas, 259 



Pepper-tree, xiv, 65 



" Perambulation of Kent," Lam- 

 bard's, 32 



Pere Hardouin, 309 



Pere Hyacinth, 3 



Pereira, Ruy, or Diogo Fernandes, 

 314, 315 



Periplus, the Erythrrean, 264; of 

 Scylax, 302 



Perle, He de la, Ivi, 3 



Peron, 74; and Lesueur, MM., African 

 travellers, 293 



Perroquetts, Ixi, 58, 210, 337 



Perruche, 337, 350 



Perse (Le), a flux of blood, IGl, 231 



" Perse, Voyage en," by Tavernier, 

 68 



Persecution, of France, 259; of Hu- 

 guenots, 1 



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