INDEX. 



423 



Rondeletius, or Rondelet, IG, 17, 97, 

 98 



Roots eaten by Hottentots, 289 



Ropes, 64 



Rorquals, 22 



Rost, Dr. R., xiii 



Rotterdam, 17, 158, 192 



Rouget, RoLigette, 322 



Rouillard, M., a magistrate of Mau- 

 ritius, xxxix, 320 



Round Island, 84, 200 



Rousseau, J. J , 49 



Roussettes, 347 



Rowley, Captain, xlvi, xlvii 



Royal Academy of Sciences of Am- 

 sterdam, 359 



Royal Oak, 51 



Royal Society, li 



Royal Society, Philosophical Trans- 

 actions of, xiii, et passim 



Ruby bastion, the, 223 



Rumphius, the botanist, on poison- 

 tree, 264 



Rupert's Valley, in St. Helena, 298, 

 299 



Riippell, habitat of Halicore taberna- 

 culi, according to, 76 



Russia, Emperor of, 134 



Rye, on the Kentish shore, 1 8 



Ryswick, Peace of, xxi; news of, 271 



Ryswick, suburb of Batavia, 222 



S. 



Sa, Payo de, 2>\.l et srq. 



Sabercanes, one sort of the Javan 

 arms, or blow-tubes, 262, 264 



Sabre worn by Macassars, 264 



Sack, and Loaches in England, 24 ; 

 yellowish wine like, 166 



Sack of Lantore by the Dutch, 161 



Sage King of Letters, see Confucius 



Sages in China, 244 



Sago-tree, the, 236 



Sail, mat used as a, 188 



"Sailing Directions"; see Findlay 



Sailors, convalescent, as iervauts, 156 



Sails, rendered useless, 139; of ad- 

 venturers' vessel given away, 155 



St, Alexis, xxxviii 



St. Antoine, M. de, xlv {see p. 133) 



St. Appollonia, Ivi , 3, 310 ct seq. 



Saint Benoit, Ixxix 



Saint Brande, 65, 66 



St. Denis, 3; Observatory of, 36, 41 



St. Elme, St. Helme, or Saint Telme, 

 fire of, phenomenon, 34, 35 



St. George, Fort, at Madras, 153; and 

 the Dragon, 174 



St. Helena Bay, 34; Island of, 272, 

 298 et seq., 376 



St. James's Palace, 24; Park, 102 



St. Lawrence, Island of, or Mada- 

 gascar, 311 ct seq. 



St. Marie, or Santa Maria, Island of, 

 315 et seq. ; Maria Rotunda, Ixxx 



St. Mark, MS., Ixxxi 



St. Maur, Congregation of, Ixxix 



St. Maurice, Island of, 304 



St. Nicholas' Point, in Java, 271 



St. Paul, 3, 38, 41, 190; Island of, 

 349; Church of, xliii 



St. Paul's, Bourbon, xlvi 



St Pierre, Bernardin de, " Paul and 

 Virginia," by, 147, 196, 200, 209 



St. Queutin, in Picardy, 6, 154 



St. Thomas, Island of, at Mozam- 

 bique, 311 



Sal Island, 11 



Salary of French pastor at the Cape, 

 283 



Salt, 87; description of the Island 

 that bears that name, 1 1 



Salt edibles, on the rock, 173 



Salt-Hind, 175 



Salt of Isle Rodrigo, 87 



Salt-flesh, corrupted, as food for 

 prisoners, 160 



Saltpetre, 206 



Salutation of a bullet at Greenwich, 32 



Salutation, of the Chinese, 251 



Salute, at the Cape of Good Hope, 32; 

 in honour of treaty of Ryswick, 

 272 



Sambawaurese, 237 



Sambreel, or payang, a sunshade, 240 



Sanatorium, at Ascension, 300 



Sandpiper, 85 



Sands, shipwreck on, 150 



Sandy Island, 324 



Sanson Mathurin, the pilot, 10 



Sansonnet, Indian, 211 



Sans Soucy, Captain, 51 



Santa Maria des Virtudes, 31 4 et seq. 



Santarem, Atlas of, 308 ct seq. 



Sanuto, Livio, Geography of, 311 



Saone, River, xvii. 127 



Saphire bastion, the. 216, 234 



Sapotacecp, 332 



Sardis, Themistocles at, 115 



Sargasso Sea, the, 301 etscq. 



Sargassutn, or gulf-weed 302 



Satyrs, anti-Christian, 131 



Saucepan, or skillet, 187 



Saucers, 64 



Saumatre, the River, 60 



Saurians, 349 



Sauzier, M. Th., Preface, xviii. xxviii, 

 xxxvi, 2, 40 



Savage Irish, 255 



Savanna River, Mauritius, 146 



