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INDEX. 



Savanne Mountain, 146 

 Savoy, 127 



Savoyard frontier, xvii 

 Saws, 55 



Scales, or Quilles, nine-pins, 104 

 Scliah, Empire du, 68 

 Schetland, one of the Islands, be- 

 lieved to be the ancient Thule, 7 

 Schism, created by dispute on a word, 



131 

 Schlegel, Professor Herman, 9, 15; on 



the Geant, 359 ct seq.; Appendix, 



344, 370 et seq. 

 Schuols, or pods, of whales, 22 

 Schreber, 202 

 Schryver, Ensign, his expedition, 



295 

 Sclater, Dr. P. L., editor of "Ibis"', 



366 

 Scorpions, not dangerous, in Isle 



Jxodrirjo ; none found in Eden, 39, 



40, 95 

 Scotland, northernmost point of, 304; 



Union of Parliaments in. Ixxii 

 Scott, A. W., on Mammcdia, 74 

 Scott Elliot, xiii, 202 

 Scottish Estates, Ixxii 

 Scourging of slaves, 181 

 Screw-pines, prevalence of, in Rod 



riguez, 103, 332. See Pandanus. 

 Scurvy, 33 



Scutia Commersonii, 332 

 cylax, Periplus of, 302 

 Scylla, Charylxlis upon, Ixxxii 

 Sea-animals, 209 

 Sea-birds, 82, 176 

 Sea-bream, 17 



Sea-cow, 28, 210; Steller's, 383 

 Sea-crabs, 93, 213 

 Sea-dogs, or seals, 274 

 Sea- eels, 76 



Sea-froth, knip distilled from, 228 

 Sea gale, or sea-breeze, at Batavia, 



226 

 Sea-grass, 302 

 Sea-larks, 330 



Sea-marks at Rodriguez, 139 

 Sea-officers, 1 75 



Sea-sick adventurers in boat, 141 

 Sea, Sargasso, 301, 302 

 Sea-serpent, eel, or lamprey of 601bs., 



173, 322 

 Sea-swallow, or flying-fish, 10, 16 

 Sea-tortoise, or turtle, 43, 72, 179, 



209, 323 

 Sea-water made fre.sh by condensing, 



301 ; salt from, 87 

 Sea-weeds, 302; float of, 163 

 Sea-winds, 273; in toriid zone, 227 

 Sea-wolfs, at Tristan Island, 27 



Seal Island, or Robben Island, 273 ct 

 seq. 



Sebusiens, 127 



Secretaire du Due de Savoye, xvii 



Sect of Tommi Mahometans in Java, 

 268 



Segusiani, 127 



Seigneur de la Fougere, xvii; de Pai- 

 nesuyt, xvii 



Seligny, M. de, cotton mill of, 204 



Selys-Longchamp, M. de, 343 



Siinegal, Voyage au, 110 



Sentences, proper name of Proverbs, 

 244 



Sentier, Bois, 332 



Sentinelle, 329 



Sepoys, xlvi 



Sepulchres, place of, for Chinese, 

 256 



Serin, 352 



Sermons on the Old Rock, 99 



Serpent, description of a sea-serpent, 

 whose flesh was venomous, 173; 

 no serpents in Isle Maurice, 214; 

 Hood-serpents in the Isle of Java, 

 234; a serpent 50 foot long, 234 



Serpent, stone of the, 190, 234 



Scrranus, 322 



Serrao, fleet of Joao, 311 



Settala Manfredi, cabinet of, in Milan, 

 279 



Settlement, removal of Dutch, in 

 Mauritius, 147 



Scttibal, the ship, 315 



Seventeen, the Assembly of. Directo- 

 rate of the Dutch Company, 192, 

 283 



Sexes do not intermix abroad, at the 

 Cape, 293 



Seychelles Islands, the, 67, 110. 309, 

 345, 356, 376 



Shaddocks in Mauritius, 175, 197 



Shagreen, Dugs wrinkled like, 292 



Shakespeare, (Si 



Shallop, from Chaloupe, 156 



Sharks, 96, 166, 174, 2U9, 322 



Sharpe, Mr., Hi 



Shearwaters. 347, 351 



Sheep, at the Cape, 278 ; at St. 

 Helena, 300 



Sheep-skin covers shoulders of Hot- 

 tentots, 288 



Sheers, 55 



Shell-fish, 209 



Shells, very fine at the Isle of Salt, 

 14 ; others very fine in Eden, 14, 43, 

 136, 179 ; in Mauritius, 179 ; worn 

 in hair of Hottentots, 289 



Shells of tortoises, enormoxis, 373 

 et seq. 



