426 



INDEX. 



South-east Port, 197, 209 



Southey, Robert, his Thalaba, 139, 



145 

 Spaiu, coast of, 24 ; wine from, 228 

 Spaniards, give name of Peru to part 



of America, 2S5 

 Spanish wine, 166, 228 

 Sparrows, 344 

 Sparrow Island, 326 

 Sparrow-owl, 344 

 Sperm-whale, 22, 23 

 "Sphere of Gentry", by Sylvanus 



Morgan, 51 

 Spice-trees, 201 



Spielwyk, Fort, at Bantam, Ivii, 271 

 Spirits, wicked, their idea of a Divine 



Being, 297 

 Spitalfields, 1 

 Spoonbill, 15 

 Spring tides at Port Mathurin, 113, 



126 

 Spring-water, plentiful at the Cape, 



286 

 Spurway, Mr., account of Lantore by, 



161 

 Squadron, French, at Mascaregne, 



33 

 Squalls, or grains, 15 

 Stadt-House, 62 

 Stag, 96 



Stahlin, M., xxxiii 

 Standards, iu Chinese processions, 



258 

 Standard of France erected, 41 

 States-General of Holland, xvii, 2, 



182, 192 

 Stations, or touchings, 146 

 Statues in Chinese Temples, 258 

 Stavorinus. John Splinter, Admiral, 



quoted, 182, 216, 222, 227, 271 

 Steinkerk, victory at, 164 

 Steller, the German naturalist, sea- 

 cows observed by, 383 

 Stellenbosch, at the Cape, French 



refugees near, 277 ; Burgher at, 



torn by a lion, 281 

 Stenotaphrum sublatum, 327 

 Sterna ancpsthcta, 176 

 StUlingia, 201 

 Stink wood, 69, 70 ; stinking wood, 



mapou. 291 

 Stocks, or Stoinbs, 158, 165, 171 

 Stombs, what they are, 158, 165, 



171 

 Stone-houses, hardly secure, in hur- 

 ricane, 170 

 Stone, in Solitaire, xx, xxi ; of the 



serpent, 190, 234 

 Storm, off the Cape, 34 et scq. ; at 

 Mauritius, 169 ; at Cape, 273 et seq. 



Stork, the Geant compared to a, 361 



Storms, Cape of, 30 ; off the Cape, 273 



Strabo, 255 



Strait of Suuda, or Suudt, 271 



Strange, Mr., 342 



Strasburg, Misson at, 135 



Stratagem for taking lions and tigers, 



281 

 Straussartiger Vogel, 368 

 Strawtail, bird, 84. See Paille-en- 



queue 

 Strejjsilas intcrpres, 351 

 Strickland, Dr., President of Ash- 



moleau Society, Introduction, 45 ; 



Appendix, 341, 352 et seq., 371 

 Strirjides, 344 



St7-ix {Athene) 7nurivora, 90, 344 

 Stront-boom, a stinking tree, 201 



et scq. 

 Structure, an admirable. See trees, 



and origin of coral reefs, 109 

 Struthious birds, G^ant compared 



with, 360 et seq. 

 Strychnos tieute, of Java, 264 

 Strychnos vontac, in Mauritius, 175 

 Stukeley, Dr., his " Itiuerarium 



Curiosum", 51 

 Sub-pilot blamed, 303 

 Subaltern Deities in China, 259 

 Subjection, token of, among Hotten- 

 tots, 291 ; among the Maldivians, 



153 

 Subjects, natural, of Tartar sovereign, 



252 

 Submarine volcanoes, 109 

 "Subtropical Rambles", by Pike, 66, 



148 

 Suburb, universal, of Batavia, 225 

 Succet or Remora, pretended Pilot to 



the Shark, 96 

 Succory (chicory), 56, 95 

 Sugar-canes, in Isle Maurice, 197 ; 



in Eden, 44 

 Sula capensis, 327 

 Sulapiscator, 82, 328, 347, 351 

 Sumatra, 227, 271, 313 

 Summer dress of Hottentots, 290 

 Summer perpetual, at Batavia, 227 

 Sun-dial, with comjaass, 108 

 Sun, veneration for the, 297 

 Sunda, or Sundt, strait of, 271 

 Sundt, the, a streight, ib. ; change of 



currents in, ib. 

 Superstition of Cliinese, 257 

 Suraag, a Dutch vessel that came to 



deliver the adventurers, ] 92 

 Surat, Jean Diodate dies at. 148 

 Surgeon, Clas, 150 

 Surges, prodigious, 273 

 Suriana maritima, 327 



