430 



INDEX. 



Vandorous, M., open boat voyage of, 



liii 

 Vangassaye, Citrus vangassaye, 175 

 Vanity of the world, Pref. Isxxvi, 



Ixxxvii 

 Van Necjc's voyage to Mauritius, 363, 



367 

 Vapour from bodies of Hottentot 



women, 292 

 Vaques, He des, 172 

 Varden's account of lions, 280 

 Variety, a mistranslation of Vanite, 



Ixxx, Ixxxvi 

 Varillas, 259 

 Varro, 288 



Vartomanni Patricius, relation of, 24 

 Varthema, Ludovico di, Hakluyt 



Society's edition of, 268 

 Vasco d'Acugna, isles de, 309 ; navi 



gator, ib. ct scq. 

 Vasconcellos, Diogo Mendez de, 311 

 Vauboulon, M. de, Governor of 



Bourbon, xix, 3 

 Vaux, Viscount de, 70, 374. .SVf Grant 

 Veal manow, fat of sea-turtles like, 



72 

 Vegetation of Diego Garcia, 67 

 Veils, natural, of Hottentot women, 



292 

 Vellom, in a vial, draught of a pillar 



on, 135 

 Velvets at Genoa, 278 

 Venalia, purchase of absolution, 131 

 Veneration of the Sun and Moon, 297 

 Venereal disease, 72 

 Venice, allusions to, 279 ; doges of, 



xxix, 254. <S'ff Misson 

 Venise, 38; "Nouvelles Relations de," 



xxviii 

 Venison, at Mauritius, 177, 209 

 Vents Malgaches, disturbances of 



regular trade- winds, 141 

 Venus, shells so named, 179 

 Venus, Transit of, expeditions to 



Rodriguez for. Introduction, xli, 61, 



85, 338, 345 

 Verd d'emeraude, see turtles, 72 

 Verdrain Cape, Cape de Verde, 256 

 Vermeulen, chart of Table Bay by, 31 

 Verreaux, 178 

 Verschaffeltii, Latania, or Hyopliorhc, 



52, 63 ct scq. 

 Verse, writing in verse sometimes 



puts people upon Satyr, Prcf. 



Ixxix 

 Versions of Leguat's book, original 



French, 137 ; Dutch, xxiii, Ixii, 



Ixiii, 307 

 Vertebra, jieiforation of nuchal, of 



tortoises, 376 



Vertigo, after landing, 146 

 Vertomanni, Loduvico, Ixvii, 268 

 Vertue alone makes true nobility, 



130 

 Vertues (Royal), 244, 246 

 Vessel, account of a vessel cast away 



near Isle Rodrifjo, 150 

 Vessel, the, of the adventurers seized, 



155 ; burnt, ib. 

 Vessels to catch rain-water, 161 

 Vesuvivis, crater of, visit to the, 127 

 Vial, inscribed vellom in, 135 

 Viands(Funeral) among the Chincses, 



at Batavia, 256 ; viands not good 



at Batavia 

 Vicenza, collection of voyages by, 23 

 Viceroi des Indes, xviii 

 Victoria, Queen, wreck of the, xlix ; 



pinnace, liii 

 Victories at Fleurus, Steinkerk, and 



Neerwinden, 164 

 Victuals furnished to refugees at the 



Cape, 285 ; cost nothing to Hotten- 

 tots, 286 

 Vieille, 214 

 Vienna, specimen of white gallinula 



at, 306 

 Vigean, a mountain in China, 249 

 Vignes en treilles, 228 

 Vigoureux, M., of St. Malo, 198 

 Viiiai/o, 344 



Vincent le Blanc, voyage of, 263 

 Vincent of Beauvais, 132 

 Viue arbours, 228 

 Vine-plants, sent from Mauritius to 



Rodriguez, 152 

 Vines at the Cape, 276 ; at St. Helena, 



299 ; at Mauritius, 206 

 Vines bear seven times in two 



years at Batavia, 228 ; What at the 



Cape, 276 et scq. 

 Violet robes of Chinese priests, 255 

 Virgil, ideas of, on a storm, 36 ; two 



verses out of, 136 

 " Virginie, Paul et," by St. Pierre, 147 

 Virgo, constellation of, xliv 

 Viscount de Vaux, Baron Grant, 70 

 Visits, trifling, 133 ; the visit of a 



married Chinese to his mistress, 252 

 " Vit. Pontif. Ravennat," 132 

 Vitalianus, Pope, 158 

 Vitis mappia, 201 

 Vlissingen, Ixviii 

 " Voiage des Hollandois", 15 

 Voiliers, bons, 83 

 Volant, le, 340 



Volcano, 42, 127 ; submarine, 109 

 Vomica, mix, 264 

 Vomit of tire, 127 

 Von Pelzeln, Dr., 366 



