420 



INDEX. 



Pottage-pot, soot from, faces of Hot- 

 tentots daubed with, 290 

 Poule Sultane, '210 

 Poulet d'lude, 358 

 Poult, to, an old hawking term, 174 

 Poultry, at Black River, 147 ; sent to 



Rodi'iguez, 151 

 Pound of sixteen ounces, 282 

 Pourpier, 70 



Powder for cartridge, for dressing- 

 box, 133 

 Power (Arbitrary) good lessons 



against all such power, 244, 245 

 Poyson (see Poison) tried on rats, 

 40 : in presents on Chinese tombs, 

 257 

 Poysoiied daggers in Java, 262 

 "Practycke in Crimiuele saeckeu 



gehemaeckt", 158 

 Prayer-Book, 187 

 Prayers, Machinal, 257 

 Prseludium, unpleasant, 20 

 Preachers (modern) of the Gospel 

 will needs explain mysteries, 101 ; 

 they ought not to do so, 132 

 Preaching at Mauritius, 371 

 " Precieuses Ridicules, les", by Molifere, 



46 

 Predikant, Petrus Simonszoon, at 



Drakeustein, 283 ; Friars, 136 

 Preface, Author's, L%xv ; Editor's, 



xiii 

 Prefaces, Their benefit ; see Prcf., 



Ixxxviii 

 Prejudice, popular, 133 

 Premium for killing lions and tigers 



at the Cape, 281 

 " Present State of England", 51 

 Presents, often beneficial, how small 



soever, 172, 173 

 Preservative, magic, in Macassar, 265 

 Presidial Chamber, 192 

 Pretence of Vice-Admiral at the 



Cape, 272 

 Priacantkus, 322 



Price of provisions, fixed by Govern- 

 ment, 189 ; at the Cape, 282 

 Pridham, C, on Mauritius, 67, 144, 

 149; " England's Colonial Empire", 

 by, xxiv 

 Priests (Chinese), 257 et seq. 

 Princes in Java, 265 

 Prior, Flacq described by, 150 

 Prisoners, adventurers made, 156 

 Prisoners, cruelty to French, 161 

 Privateer, French, 7 

 Pri\ilege, of Chinese, 242 ; of civi- 

 lians in Java, 241 ; of Javans, 

 wearing the Cric, 265 

 Procdlaria aterrvma, Plutos, 178, 347 



Processions (Chinese), 252, 255, 258 

 Procopius, quoted, 134, 135 

 Produce of the earth, without labour, 



at the Cape, 277 

 Projet de R^publique k 1' He d'Eden, 



by Sauzier, xviii, xxviii, xxxvi 

 Promulgation of Edict of Nantes, 



original, 1 

 Prouis takes possession of Bourbon, 



Ivi 

 Proposition to gain time, 126 

 Protestants (French) have a Church 



at the Cape, 283 

 Protestants, French, follow their 



pastors into exile, xxii, 1 

 Proverb, French, 121 

 Proverbs, a word ill apply'd to the 



sentences of Solomon, 244 ; quoted, 



122 

 Providence, Divine, Preface, liv, 1, 49, 



145, 156. 304 

 Province of Bresse, 1, 127 ; Introduc- 

 tion, xvii 

 Provinces, the United, 195 

 Provisions, price of, 189 ; at the 



Cape, 282 ; boiled, full of worms, 



141 ; scanty supply of, 160 

 Prudence, a crdole, liii 

 Prussia, 1 

 Psalms of David, an admirable book, 



36, 52 ; newly translated into 



French verse at the Cape, 283 et 



seq, 

 Psalms, version of, by Marot and 



Beza, 12, 36, 283 et seq. 

 Psittaciens, 345 

 Psittacus, species of, 85, 371 ; P. 



rodericaniis, 338, 345 

 Pterodroma aternvia, black Petrel, 



178, 324, 328, 347 

 Pteropus Edivavdsii, flying fox, 45, 85, 



337 ; P. rubrkolUs, 347 

 Public Worship of Roman Catholics 



disallowed at Batavia, 225 ; at 



Rodriguez, xliii 

 Puente, Martinez de la, 309 

 Puets, 44 



Piifiinus cJdororyndius, 178 

 Pugnacity of Solitaire, li, 79 

 Pullets, 231 ; Pullett's egg, serpent 



stone bigger than a, 234 

 Pulo Panjang, in Bantam Bay. 271 

 Pulse, at the Cape, 276, 278 ; at 



St. Helena, 299 

 Pumpkins, 44 

 Punishments, of slaves, 181 ; of 



Banishment, 278 ; of whipping, ib, 

 Purchas' Pilgrims, Ixxix 

 Purgon, 46 

 Purs or Purrs, plovers, 8, 85 



