428 



INDEX. 



Thunderer, H.M.S., 144 



Tibia, of owl, 90 



Tide, at Mauritius, 145 



Tidore, 236 



Ti-Fa, a Chinese noble, 247 



Tigers, very large at Java, 232, 281 ; 

 some at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 278 ; but they are very small, 

 281 ; reward given by the Cnm- 

 •pany to those that kill any of 

 them, ih. 



Tigisis, city of Numidia, 135 



Ti-Hokai, a great extravagant Lord, 

 248 



Timber, for carpenters in Eden, 43 ; 

 trees of India, 67 



Time ; no division made of it by the 

 Uottentots, 295 



Tingis, city in Numidia, 134 



Titmouse, in Mauritius, 210 



Tobacco, 44, 52 ; not to be bought 

 at the Cape but by the Company, 

 282 



Tobacco, planted in Mauritius, 147, 

 197; sent to Rodriguez, 152 ; and 

 brandy, in token of peace, 295 ; 

 and bread given to Hottentots for 

 work, 286 ; given to Hottentot 

 children, 289 ; exchanged for cattle, 

 293 



Toile de Latanier, Vacoa matting, 

 188 



Token of subjection, remarkable, 291 



Tombs, of the Chineses, 257 



Tommi, Mahommedan sect of, 268 



Tools, furnished to refugees at the 

 Cape, 285 ; at Rodriguez, 55 



Tormentado, the Tempestuous Cape, 

 30 



Torrent in Rodriguez, 94 



Torrid Zone, Batavia in the, 227 ; 

 water in the, 301 



Tortoises, Extinct Gigantic, of the 

 Mascarene Islands, Appendix E, 

 372 et seq. 



Tortoises (Land), 70 ; there are 

 three kinds of them, ib.; their fat 

 is white, 71 : it never thickens, and 

 it is better than our best butter in 

 Europe, ih. ; then- liver is excel- 

 lently well- tasted, ib. ; their bones 

 have no marrow, ib. ; their eggs 

 are round and very good to eat, 71 ; 

 few in Maurice, 184 ; Appendix, 

 339 ; terrestrial, 339 



Tortoises (Sea), 72 ; their fat is 

 green, good to eat, purging, and 

 will never coagulate, 73 ; some of 

 them have weighed 500, ib. ; how 

 to CHtch them, ib. ; when they lay 



their eggs, ib. ; these eggs are not 

 so good as those of Laud Tortoises', 

 ib. ; their livers are very unwhole- 

 some and ill-tasted, /6.; their feeding 

 ib. ; theii- blood is cold, ib. ; but very 

 few of them at Isle Maurice, 179, 

 184 



Tortoises, sea. plentiful at Ascension, 

 301 



Tory opposition to Whig faction, 

 Ixsii et seq. 



Touchings, or stations, 146 



Toulouse, Ixxix 



Tour, M. de la, on Antiaris Toxicaria, 

 264 



Tourlouru, 94, 213 



Tourncfortia argentea, 327 



Touruou, Cardinal, 98 



Tourterelles, turtle-doves, 300 



Town (A) of 300 houses at the Cape, 

 275 



Town-fops, 46 



Trade clouds, at Ascension, 301 



Trade drift, in Indian Ocean, rate of 

 current, 141 



Trade in cattle, at the Cape, 280, 

 293 



Trade in tea, at Batavia, 229 



Trade-wind, 8, 19, 106, 111, 141, 

 298, 301 ; disturbances of regular, 

 141 



Tramontana, Tramontane, 38, 39 



Trans. Norfolk and Norw. Nat. Soc, 

 45 



Transit of Venus Expedition, to 

 Rodriguez, Introduction, xiii. xli, 

 61, 70, 85, 327, 338 



Transj^orted to a rock,the adventurers, 

 159 



Translation of "Relation deRodrigue" 

 321 



Translation of Leguat's work by Mis- 

 son or Ozell, xsxv ; of Psalms, new, 

 283 et seq. 



Transportation, gratis, from Holland 

 to the Cape, of French refugees, 

 284 



Tra-tra, 328 



Travados, or storms, 34 



Tra van core, 313 



Traveller, curious, in S. Africa, 294 



Travellers, in South Africa, by Liv- 

 ingstone, 280 ; whole course of 

 author's, 304 ; of Rabbi Benjamin, 

 Ixxxix 



Treachery of Diodatj, 158 ; of Valleau, 

 150, 151 



Treasury, Venetian, 279 



Treatment of slaves, 181 



Treaty of Paris, 42 



