INDEX. 



421 



Purse, story of a purse storu by the 



crabs or rats, 92, 93 

 Pmslaiu seed, 56, 70, 95 

 Purslane, the only European herb 



found by the adventurers at 



Rodrigo, 70, 95 

 Purveyors, negligence of, 160, 1/5, 



180, 183, 188 

 Puttooren, 210 

 Puvigne, M. de. Commandant at 



Rodrigviez, xliii 

 Pyrard de Laval, Voyage of, 153 



Quadrant, solar, of loadstone, 108 



Quiiils, water, 208 



Quales, 44 



Quaresma Pero, 310 



Quart, the English, equals the Paris 



pint, 278 

 Quatrevingt Brisans, oreighty break- 

 ers, name of a reef, xlix, 140 

 Queen Anne, Ixxi 

 Queen Marie of England, 32 ; Queen 



Victoria, the wreck of the, xlix. 

 Queensland, Australia, 384 

 Querets, 176 ; see equerets and ferrets, 



329 

 Quesne (Henry, Marquis of\ his 



design to form a colony of French 



refugees. Pre/-, 2 et seq. 

 Questions, put to the Chinese dead, 



255 ; put to the Irish dead, ib. 

 Quills of porcupine in lion's skin at 



Cape Town, 281 

 Quilles au baton, or ninepins, a game, 



104 

 Quilts (matelas) of Capoc, 65 

 QViimper, Monk of, Pere Hyacinthe, 3 

 Quiutus Curtius, 68 ; Quincurse, ib. 

 Quivisia laciniata, 332 

 Quolibets, the reign of, 121 



R. 



Rabannes, of Rofia palm, 188 

 Rabbi Benjamin, a bad author, Pre/. 



Ixsix 

 Rabbit Island, or Robben Eilaut, 274 

 Rabos Forgados, 37 1 

 Radishes at St. Helena, 299 

 Rafales, high winds, 27 

 Raffle, a ghastly game at, 182 

 Raft, or float, of chests, 168 

 Ragouts of the Hottentots, 288 

 Maia, 322 

 Rail, windess, 342 ; Geant compared 



with, 362 

 Rain, salt, in hurricane, 37 ; seldom 



occurs in Bourbon, 58 



Rains fiequeut at Batavia, between 

 the months of November and 

 April, 225, 227 ; in Eden, 58 

 Rallidce, a form of Gelinotes, 81, 335 

 Rallus, GaUinula Le'juatia, compared 



with, 362 

 " Rambles, Subtropical", see Pike 

 Rambouillet, Hotel, 22 

 Jiajnd, H.M.S., 350 

 Rates of the Apostolical Chamber, 

 Rats, a great number of them at 

 Rodrvjo. 70, 89, 90. 126, 346 ; at 

 Mauritius, 212 ; at St. Helena, 300 

 Rattan, split, for flogging slaves, 181 

 Rattle-snake, 174 

 Ravin sara, 201 

 Rays, 322 

 Raz de-maree, 113 

 Reader, French Protestant, at the 



Cape, 282 

 Reading and writing useless to 

 Hottentots, 295 ; taught to Negro 

 slaves, 297 

 " Recherches sur la fauue des iles 



Mascareignes," 81 

 Red Sea, Uugong in the, 76, 384 

 Reefs, origin of Coral, 109 ; chains 



or reefs of rocks, ib. 

 Rees' CyclopEedia, 65 

 Refiexions sur VEucharistc, by Henri 



Duquesne, 2 

 Refreshments, at Cape, 33 ; at Mau- 

 ritius, 146 ; at St. Helena, 300 

 et seq. 

 Refugees. French, earnest to teach 

 Negro slaves, 297 ; i>lanters at the 

 Cape, 285 ; Huguenots settled in 

 S. Africa, 284, 285 

 Reins of Hottentots, thong of 



leather about the, 288 

 "Relation de I'lle Rodrigue", 320 et 



seq. 

 " Relation" de M. Delon, 39 

 Relations of Voi/a(jcs ; of what 

 materials they ought to be com- 

 posVl, they that write them ought 

 to know themselves, Pref. Ixxvi 

 " Relations Veritables et Curieuses de 

 de risle de Madagascar et du 

 Bresil", 358 

 Religion, instruction in, given to 



Negro slaves, 297 

 Religion (vulgar) full of fruitless 

 and rash things, 101 ; in France, 2 ; 

 Chinese, 257 ; of Ilottentvts, 289 ; 

 of Javans, 268 

 Remarks, historical and critical, 

 made in a voyage from Italy to 

 Holland in 1704, xxviii; a book full 

 of Falsities, Pref. Ixxxv 



