INDEY. 



425 



Shelves, or ledges of rock, reefs, 



translated from " Brisaus", 47; ex- 

 pression used by John Dryden, 47; 



by Southey, 139, 145 

 Ship's crew, letters read to, 150 

 Ships of Dutch Company built at 



Onrut, 227 

 Ship-wreck on sands of Rodrigo, 150 

 Shoals, the Amirante, 309 

 Shoar, a flat, 301 

 Shoes of skin, 180 

 "Shooe piuch'd, where the", proverb, 



121 

 Showers, small, at St. Helena, 299 

 Shufeldt, Mr., viii, xi, 358 

 " Siam, Journal du Voyage de," by 



Choisy, Ixxvii, 33, 153 ; " EugUsh 



Intercourse with", 153 

 Siamese countries, poison-tree in, 264 

 Sick brought ashoar at the Cape, 294 

 Sideroxylon, 332 



Sighem, gold-mines of, in China, 249 

 Signal, 185 ; to tack, disobeyed, 302 



et seq. 

 Silver, unknown to natives at Cape, 



293 

 Silversmith, 52, see Haye 

 Simon van der Stel, Governor, 32, 275 

 Simond, Reverend Pierre, of Dauphine, 



282, 283 

 Simonetta Anastasius, Ixxx 

 Simples, knowledge of, by Hottentots, 



294 

 Simplicity of Hottentots, 296 

 Sinte Helena, Ixviii 

 Siqueira, Gonzalo de, 311 ; Diego 



Lopez de, 312 ct scq. 

 Sirenia, 75, 379 ei scq. 

 Sirens or Mermaids, 380 

 Sium Sisarum. 288 

 Skates, fish, 209 



Skeleton of Solitaire, restoration of, 1 

 Skiff of skins sewed together, 180 

 Skillet, or saucepan, 187 

 Skilling, eight to the crown, Dutch 



money, 282 ; equivalent to six 



sous, ib. 

 Skinks, 86 

 Skins, deer, 180 

 Skins, of lions in fort at Cape Town, 



281 ; like Furbelo's, 292 

 Skirrets, Slum Sisarujn, 288 ; I'oot of, 



represented, 290 

 Skulls, of Manatee and Dugoug, xiv, 



381; of Rhytina, xiv, 382 

 Slack'd lime, with areca and betel, 230 

 Slater, Mr. H. H., li, 85, 110, 338, 357 

 Slave of Othos, 133 

 Slavery, 133 ; Chinese tail a badge 



of, 252 



Slaves, treatment of in colonies, 181; 

 from coast of Guinea. 270 ; price of, 

 at the Cape, 282 ; not dear at the 

 Cape, 285 ; go naked, 296 ; freed, 

 become Libertins, 297 



Slippers of the ladies of Java, a 

 mark of distinction, 267 



Sloane, Dr., xxiv 



Smaragd, Ixvii 



Smieut, Dirk Janozoon, Governor of 

 Mauritius, Ivi 



Smith, Mr., lii 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 

 xi 



Smollett's " Universal History", Mo- 

 dern Part, 224, 230, 272 



Snail.s, eaten by Hottentots. 290 



Snakes, absence of, in Bourbon, 43 ; 

 in Mauritius, 214 



Snake-gourd, 175 



Snewberg, mountains of, 293 



Snipe, sea-fowl in colour and taste 

 like, 177 



Snuff-box, 51 



Soap, price of, at the Cape, 282 



Scares, Ruy, 310 et seq. 



Societe de Geographie, x 



Socotora, Island of, 315 



Sofala, 311 



Soil of Isle Maurice almost every- 

 where reddish, 196 



Solar quadrant of loadstone, 108 



Soldiers as servants, 156 



Soldiers, Dutch, in Java, bridled by 

 the Comimny, 241 ; at the Cape, 

 295 



Solinus, a fabulous author, 24, 255, 

 269 



Solitaire, the, xii. xx, 44, 333 et seq., 

 337,341 et scq., 352 et scq. 



Solitaries, 64, 129 



Solitary (the), a particular sort of 

 bird, 77, 88 ; has a atone in its 

 throat, 79 ; never lays but one egg, 

 79, 88 ; ceremony of its marriage, 

 79 



Solitary Thrush, of the Philippines, 

 xiv 



Solomon, Book of, 243 ; Proverbs of, 

 quoted, 122 



Song of Thanksgiving, 191, 204, 304 



Songs of Hottentots, 296 



Sonnerat, M., his "Voyage aux Indes", 

 263, 293, 345 



Soot and grease, Hottectots besmeared 

 with, 288, 290 



Sooty terns, 352 



Sourat, 68 



Sous, the French money, 278 ; six 

 sous equivalent to a skilhng, 282 

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