418 



INDEX. 



Perseverance, the Dutch ship, 162 et 



seq. 

 Persia, banyan in, 67; coach horses 



from, 239 

 Persian wine, 228; voyages, 68 

 Persians, the, 68 



Pertz, chronicle recovered by, 132 

 Peru, 269 ; why so called, 285 



Account of, by Acosta, 286 



Perugino, Ixxx 



Peter Thomas, 51, 55, 135, 156 



Petition or memorial sent to Holland, 

 165 



Petrel, black, 178; petrels, 347 



Petrology of Rodriguez, lii 



Petticoat, unnecessary, of Hottentot 

 women, 292 



Pezophaps minor, 852 ; SoUtarius, 

 viii, 1, 342, 353 



Phaeton, several species of, 83, 84, 

 329, 347 



Pharaon, Cocur de, 171 



Pheasants at the Cape, 2«0 ; at St. 

 Helena, 300 



Phchiima, 86 



Philippe II, King of Spain, 136 



Philippe Diodate, 148 



Philippine Islands, 269 ; the Solitarj^ 

 Thrush of the, xliv, xlv 



Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, 

 366 



Philosopher and his Wife, Chinese 

 story, by Sir John Davis, 244 



Philosophers, according to the 

 common signification of the word, 

 are prov'd foolish fellows and 

 talkers to no purpose, 37 



Philosopher's Stone, 132 



Philosoi^hical Trans. Roy. Soc, 

 Intro., lii, 53, 67, 70, 81 et 2'>assim 



Philosophie d'Aprenti-Moine, 176 



Philtres, Love potions given by the 

 women of Java, 265 



Phlebotomists, or vein-cutters, 115 



PhoccB, 340 



Phoenician Tongue, inscription in the, 

 134 



Phyllanthus Casticus, 333 



" Physical History of Man," by Dr. 

 Pickering, 288 



Physicians are in perpetual contra- 

 diction among themselves, from 

 whence we may conclude they 

 rather act by chance than by 

 knowledge, 115 ; their tragi-comi- 

 cal consultations, ibid. ; quarrel 

 and fight, cannot decide their 

 differences without drawing cuts, 

 ibid. ; Physicians that are not skil- 

 ful, 133 ; those of Europe look'd 



upon as pernicious to the country 

 by the islanders of Java, 231, 

 232 



Physick (common) a pure cheat, 

 and more destructive than service- 

 able to mankind, 115 



Physiognomy, of the Chinese, 241 ; 

 of the Hottentots, 238, 291 



Phyz's of Hottentot women, 291 



Pianqui I., 326 



Pieardy, 6, 154 



Pickering, Dr. Charles, " Chrono- 

 logical History of Plants," by, 264, 

 288 



Pico Martinez, in Sal Island, 11 



Pictures, in Chinese Temples, 257 ; 

 of Chinese, 241 



Pidgeons of Isle Rodrvjo are smaller 

 and tamer than ours, 82 



Pierrot, one of the adventurers, 6, 

 55 ; Island, 88, 326 



Pig, 347 



Pigeon, Dutch, 211 ; Hollandais, 345 



Pigeons, 44, 82, 231, 344 ct seq. 



Pigot, Governor, xl 



Pike, Colonel N., "Sub-tropical 

 Rambles," by, 66, 148, 179, 203 



Pikes, fish with sharj) teeth, 174 



Piles, parallel lines of, at Batavia, 

 226 



Pillar, draught of, 135 ; ingraved, 

 134; of M. de Flacourt, 41,31? 



Pilot, 51; Pilots, 302; Sub-Pilot, 

 31)3 



Pilot-Fish, 97 



Pinang, kernel of the areca-nut, 

 230 



Pine apples, 104, 197 



Pingre, the astronomer at Rodri- 

 guez. Introduction, xi, 337, 338 



Pinnacle, called Lot, in St. Helena, 

 298 



Pins, pandani, 332 



Pint, the Paris, equivalent to the 

 English quart, 278 



Pintades, 28, 300 



Pintado's of divers sorts, at Batavia, 

 231 



Pipe (an Ambulator), 296 



Piper betel, 264 



" Piscibus Marinis, de," Rondelet's, 98 



Pisang, 197 ; see Pinang, 239 



Pisonia, 201 



Pitch, 152, 180 



Piton, de la Riviere Noire, 146 

 Pitt, Thomas, at Madras, 153 

 Pitts, or pools, on the reef at Mauri- 

 tius, Fish in, 173 et seq. 

 Placaat, severe, against illicit trade 

 at the Cape, 294 



