INDEX. 



427 



Surrey, 195 



Swallow, the name of the adven- 

 turers' frigate, Ixxv, 5, 13, 34, 47 ; 

 see Frigate 



Swallows in Rodriguez, 85 ; at the 

 Canaries, 11 



Swarte Rivier, de, or Black River, 

 146, 148 



Sweet-meats, 221 



Swimmers, good, Benelle and La 

 Haye, 164 



Sword-fish, 209 



SymbolcB Sirenologicce, Brandt's mono- 

 graph, 383 



Symson's translation of Luillier's 

 Voyage, 183, 284 



T-tree, the, 201 



Table Bay, 29, 273, 275, 283, 297 



Table-cloth, the-31 



Table-linen, taken from adventurers, 



159 

 Table Mountain, 30, 272, 280 

 Tablier, curious, of Hottentot women, 



292, 293 

 Tachard, Pere Guy, 28, 29, 31, 97, 



279 

 Tachypetes, aquila, 83 ; minor, 325 

 Tachydromus sexlineatus, 236 

 Tack about, manoeuvre of Dutch 



fleet, 302 et seq. 

 Tag, the, a sea-bird, 84 

 Tail, worn by Chinese, a badge of 



subjection, 252 

 Taillefer. a French Protestant living 



at the Cape, 277, 287 

 Talbot, Capt., 371 

 Tamarin mountains, 146 

 Tamarind tree, 201 

 Tambourina, 202 

 " Taming of the Shrew," 81 

 Tanks, drip, at Ascension, 301 ; on 



the aux Fouquets, 159 

 Taoist philosopher, 244 

 Tapers, in Chinese temples, 257 

 Tares, degenerate seed, 57 

 Tarter, noble, in China, 249 

 Tartars, imposition of law by, 252 ; 



invaders, 253 

 Tatamal-a, 203 

 Tavernier (The Sieur), Ixviii, 68, 234 ; 



a good jeweller, but a poor author, 



made six voyages to the East-Indies, 



68, 269 ; his jiroperty of Aubonue, 



2 ; declares emeralds not to be 



Oriental, 269 

 Tavern-keejiers at Genoa, 278 

 Tax, ioY lion and tiger money, 281 



Tea, common and imperial, 229 

 Tea, houses of Chinese at Batavia, 2, 



29 ; trade in, 251 ; ordinary drink 



of Javans, 262 

 Teal, 372 



Telfair, Mr., xlviii, xlix 

 Telme, Saint, 35 



Tempest, dreadful, at Mauritius, 170 

 Tempests, gusts, or grains, 15 

 Temples ought not to be turu'd into 



dens of thieves, 131 ; Chinese, 257 

 Tennent, Sir Emmerson, " Natural 



History of Ceylon," by, 75, 86 

 Tent or Pavilion Tree, 104 

 Tent, linen, at Chinese funeral, 255 

 Tea-ebinthacem, Colophane Mauritiana, 



one of the, 152 

 Terminalia Cutappa, 201 ; T. Bcnjoin, 



329 

 Termites, white ants, 225 

 Ternate, 236 

 Terns, 88 ; noddy-terns, 298, 299, 



301 ; sooty, 352 

 Terrestrial avifauna of Rodriguez, 



355 

 Testament, a commentary ou the, 99 

 Testard (John), 6, 26, 52, 135, 154, 



156, 162, 171 et scq. ; ventures to 



sea on a float, and was never heard 



of after, 184 et seq. ; his letters, 



187 

 Tcstudo, elcphantina, 70 ; imbricata, 



179 

 Texel Road, xix, 6, 31 

 Thakdia, Southey's, quoted, 139, 145 

 Theal, " History of South Africa," by, 



169, 181, 276, 280, 294 

 Theatins, Ixxxviii 

 Theatres, Chinese, 253 

 Thee, the best not worth above 20 



pence a pound at Batavia, 229 

 Theft punish'd severely by the 



Hottentots, 295 

 Themistocles at Sardis, 145 

 Thcobroma cacao, 201 

 Thomas (Peter), 51 et seq., 135, 156 

 Thong, leather, about the reins of 



Hottentots, 288, see Case 

 Thorn, Major, " History of the Con- 

 quest of Java," by, 221, 236, 241 



et seq., 262 et seq. 

 Thrasius, burnt by Busiris, 171 

 Thread of Palm fibre, 64 

 Thrushes, 44; Solitary, of the Philip- 

 pines, xlv 

 Thuillier, M., xl 

 Thule (Isle), 7 

 Thunder, never heard in Isle 



Rodriijo, 58 ; rare in the region of 



the trade-winds, 58 



