INDEX. 



431 



Vontac, St7'ychnos vontac, 175 

 Voorzeilder, the, or forerunner, the 



vanguard of a Dutch fleet, 271 

 Vosmoeri, Testudo, 377 

 Vows, for Isle Rodrigo, 127 et seq. 

 " Voyage au Sene'gal", by Adauson, 



110 

 Voyage of M. Le Gentil, 161 ; Mr. 



Beaulieu, ib. ; Delon, 39, 40 

 " Voyage of Leguat", Dutch version of, 



xsiii, Ixii ; English version of, 178 ; 



French, xxii 

 " Voyage of the Beagle", 66 

 " Voyage de Siam", 16, 28, 35 

 "Voyage, Litteraire", 214 

 " Vovage, Phillijj's, to Botany Bay", 



366 

 " Voyage through Spain", Wil- 



loughby's, 166 

 " Voyage to Italy", by Max. Misson, 



xxix, 136. See Misson 

 " Voyage to New South Wales", 



"White's, 366 

 "Voyages a Madagascar", by Alexis 



Rochon, 66 ; autour le Monde, 293 

 Voyages, Dampier's, 112 

 Voyages, collection of, by De Bry, 



309 ; Harris, 161, 166, 269 

 " Voyages et Observations du Sieur 



de la Boullaye-le-Gouz", 68 

 Voyages (Anonymous) to be sus- 

 pected, Pref. ; false voyages, ib. ; 



character of a good voyage, Pref. ; 



character of this, ib. ; living testi- 

 monies of what is advanced, ib. 



W. 



Waddingsveen, wreck of ship, 273 



Wade, Sir Thos., xiii 



Wagtails, 336 



Walg-vogel, the, of Van Neck, 210 ; 



or Walckvogel, 375 

 Walks of oak, at the Cape, 276 ; 



wonderful fine, by canals in Batavia, 



226 

 Walloon Church at Leyden, 148 

 Wane of the Moon, observance of, 



289 

 Want relieved by Hottentots, 296 

 War of the League of Augsbourg, 164, 



271, 272 

 Warbler, small, in Rodriguez, 355 

 Wars with the Hottentots, 295 

 Warwick Haven, or Grand Port, 



147 

 Washington, U.S., Smithsonian Inst., 



xi 

 Water, fresh, excellent in St. Helena, 



299 ; none at Ascension, 301 



Water Hen, gigantic, 362 et scq., 369, 



370 

 AVaterhouse, Mr., Hi 

 Water, in Torrid Zone, ill-tasted, 301 ; 



in Mauritius, 160 

 Water, sea, condensed, 301 

 Water-melons, 56 et seq., 108, 229 

 Water-quails, 209 

 Waves, 34, 35 ; like mountains, 94 ; 



impetuous and terrible, 300 

 Wax-tapers in Chinese temples, 257 

 Weakness, strange, 174 

 Weather-beaten bark, 146 

 Weaver-bird, 45 

 Wedgwood's " Diet, of Eng. Etymo- 



\ogj" 93,120 

 Weed-sea, the, 302 

 Weeds, floating, 301; float of, 185, 188 

 Weeks, months or years, unknown to 



natives, 295 

 Weeper.?, or Mourners, at Chinese 



funerals, 255 

 Weight of gigantic tortoises, 376 

 Weimar, Mapjja Mundi preserved at, 



Ivi, 310 

 Weise, " The Discoveries of America," 



by A. J., 30 

 Weiss, " Biographic Universelle," Art. 



by, xxiii 

 Weltevreeden, 238 

 West Indies, slavers to, put into 



Table Bay, 297 

 Whalebone, 25 

 Whales, 22 ; a whale's jawbone 



hung uf)ou the wall of the palace at 



*S'(. Jaincs , London, 24 ; another 



jawbone kept at the Esciirial, ib. ; 



signification of the word Whale, 25 

 Whales, 380 ; black-back, 22 ; at 



Mauritius, 209. ; spermaceti, 87 

 Wharton, Cai^tain, viii 

 Wheat, 44, 56 ; bread, 228 

 Wheat -corn turns to tares, 57 

 Wheel, Oriental slaves broken alive 



on the, 182 

 Whig" of tobacco, 296 

 Whig, opposition to Tory, Ixxii 

 Whipping, punishment of, at Mauri- 

 tius, 181 ; at the Cape, 278 

 Whip-staff, 3031 

 Whirlwinds, 15, 37, 170. 273 

 White Gallinula of Lord Howe's 



Island, 366 

 White Prince, the Emperor of Russia, 



134 

 White Sugar Candy, 229 

 White's "Journal of Voyage to N. S. 



Wales", 366 

 Whittington (Richard), how he 



made his fortune with a cat, 91 



