INDEX. 



419 



Plaine des Caffres, 201, -210 



Plaise, 372 



Plancius, Petrua, mai) of, 312 



Plank, found at Rodriguez, 107 150 



Plantane, or Latanier, 52 et seq., 61 



et seq., 147, 172, 200 ; cotton of, 



120 

 Plantane-leaves, Huts of, 99 ; mats 



of, 188; roofs of, 147 ; hats of, 



172 

 Plantane-trees, 43 ; on island, 176 ; 



in Mauritius, 200 ; Rodriguez, 52, 



59, 61, 86 

 Plantation House at St. Helena, 



376 

 Plantations in Mauritius destroyed 



by hurricane. 170 

 Planters at the Cape are French 



refugees, 285 ; at Black River, 



147 

 Plants and trees of the Isle of Eden, 



43. Two curious plants, 231. 



Medical Plants at the Cape, 294 

 Plants at Batavia, 229 ; Bourbon, 



48 ; Cape, 275 ; Mauritius, 147 ; 



Rodriguez, 57 ; St. Helena, 299 

 Plants of the Indies at Black River, 



147 

 Plaque, frontal and rostral, 369 

 Plaqucniinier mclanide, 197 

 Platalea ajaja, Spoonbill, 15 

 Plates of palm bark, 64 

 Pliny the jVaturrdist, a fabulous 



Author, 24, 67, 97, 199 

 Plovers or purrs, 85 

 Pluukett, Mr., 1 

 Plutarch's account of Themistocles, 



145 

 Pluto's Birds whose flesh stinks, 84, 



178 

 Poccia, pozza, 101 

 Pods or schools of whales, 22 

 Poetaster, 132 



Poincy and de Rochefort, 17, 90 

 Point, the Devil's, 163 ; Puiut Diable, 



209 

 Poiute d'Esny, 367 

 Pointe du Palmier, 325 

 Pointe du Sel, 330 

 Pointe de la Pouce, 324 

 Points (laces) at Genoa, 278 

 Poirier, Captain Stephen, Governor 



of St. Helena, 298 

 Poison in Java, 262 ; see Poijson. 

 Poisoned weapons, 264 

 Poisonous fish, 174 

 Poivre, M., 200 

 Pole, artick, 68 

 Pole Star, 38 

 Poles, 180 



Poliopsitta cana, parrot, 210 



Pollux, Castor and, St. Pollux, 35, 38 



Polygamy of the Cafres, 291 



Pomegranates, at St. Helena, 299 



PomfHets, 372 



Pompes d'eau, water-spouts, 16 



Pomponius Mela, 255, 269 



Pondicherry, 1 99, xliii 



Ponies, island-bred, at St. Helena, 



300 

 Pont volant, 128 

 Ponyard, poyson'd, or Cric, 264 

 Poop, Trade- wind blown in our, 140 

 Pope, Adeodatus, 158 ; Adripn VI, 



5, Hadrianus, ibid. ; Innocent XI, 



133 ; Vitaliauus, 158 ; Sylvester II, 



132 

 Popes, diatribe against the, 130, 131 

 Porcelain, trade in, by Chinese, 251 

 Purcelaines, species of Cyprcea, 179 

 Porcupines, at the Cuiic, 278 ; quills 



of, in lion's skin, 281 

 Porphyria Madagascaricnsis, 210 

 Porpoises have hot blood ; carry 



their young like whales, Lamentins, 



etc., 8, 10, 22 

 Port Bourbon, 195 

 Port-en-Bessin, 18 

 Port, Grand, Warwick Haven or, 147; 



see Grand Port 

 Port Louis, xl, 144, 146, 149, 183, 



195, 345, 375 

 Port Mathurin, xxxviii, 10, 102, 113, 



119 

 Port North-west, or Port Louis, 



Noort Wester Haven, 149 

 Port Santa Maria, 11 

 Port, South-east ; see Grand Port 

 Port Souillac, 145 

 Portrait (A) of the noble Binonfa, 



247 ; of the noble Ti-/Iokai, 248 

 Portugal, King of, John II, 30, 298 ; 



John III, IV. 41 

 Portuguese, archives, 309 ; discoveries 



in the Indian Ocean, ibid., 41, 44 

 Portuguese, 15, 68 ; transport fruit 



and cattle to St. Helena, 299 

 Portugueses (Protestant) have two 



chui-ches at Batavia, 224, 250 

 Portuguses, Maurice discovered by 



the, 195 ; in Batavia, 236 

 Portxdaca olcracea, " Pourpier", or 



purslane, 56, 70, 95 

 Poste, Riviere du, 146 

 Postulant, or novice in convent, 176 

 Potatoes, sent to Rodriguez from 



Mauritius, 152 ; good for nothing, 



189 

 Potatos, abundance of, at Batavia, 



207, 230 ; in Eden, 44 



