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INDEX. 



Wicked Rich People. The Chinescs 

 believe that wicked rich people 

 turn to toacl.s, and that the poor 

 tread them under foot, 247 



Wide-awake Fair, at Ascension, 301 



Wilcocke, S. H., translation of Sta- 

 vorinus' Voyages, 167, 182, et seq., 

 267, 282 



Wild asses, 12, 278 ; boars, 278 ; cats, 

 278 ; dogs, 278 ; goats, 12 ; horse, 

 spotted, 281, 300 



Wild Boars at the Cape, 278 



Wild-fire, animals made of paper 

 and, 254 



Wilkinson's " Egypt", 264 



William III, Ivi, 129, 148, 272 



William and Mary, King and Queen 

 of England, 129 ; their eulogium, 

 ih. 



William of Malmesbury, 132 



Willoughby quoted, 14, 15, 166 



Wind, favourable, preferred to finest 

 woman, 139 



Wind, violent gales of, 170 



Winds (Trade), 19 ; regular winds 

 at Mascaregne, 140 ; at Batavia, 

 226 ; furious, at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 272, 276 ; in Strait of 

 Sundt, 271 



Wine (Palm), wine not good at Isle 

 Maurice, 206 ; wine of the Cape, 

 277 ; brought there of the Com- 

 pany, 278, 282 ; why dear in 

 price, 278 



Wine, Spanish, 166 ; yellowish white, 

 lb. ; in Eden, 44 



Wines, small, of Champagne, Cape 

 wine like, 287 



Wire bird, the, of St. Helena, 300 



Witches, vanity of ugly, 292 



Witnesses, Ixxxii et seq. 



Wives, discussion on, 121 



Wives of Chinese invisible, 253 



Wolf, the artist, drawings of birds 

 by, 363 



Wolves and Foxes unknown at 

 Jara, 233 



Woman, Chinese, who drowned her- 

 self. Feast in memory of, 254 



Woman is made for man, and man 

 for woman, 125 



W^omen, amiable objects, first seen 

 at Black River, 147 



Women {African) are very ugly at 

 the Cape, 291 ; not true that the 

 joint of their little finger is cut off 

 when they remarry, 291 ; Are 

 more noisome than their Husbands, 

 ib. ; their figure, 292 ; their 

 character, ib. 



Womea (Mahometan) keep them- 

 selves closely concealed, 253, 266 



W^omen necessary, 123 ; are the 

 most amiable half of the world, 

 123 ; their best part, 123 ; wiser 

 than men, ib. ; their eulogium, 

 123 ; ordain'd to perpetuate the 

 work of the Creation, 124 



Women, proud, voluptuous, and lazy 

 at Batavia, 240 ; formerly scai'ce 

 there, ib. ; slaves in China, 253 ; 

 Chinese women have very little 

 feet, 253 ; Javan unfaithful to their 

 husbands, 266 



Wood scarce at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 276 ; a large wood of young 

 trees, ib. 



Wood Island at Mauritius, 176 



Woodcock, bird like a, 16; in Eden, 44 



Woodcocks and Hens of Isle Ro- 

 drigo, 81 ; at the Cape, 280 



Wood-hens, 370 



Wood- pigeon, 44 



Woodward, Dr. H., xiv ; on geogra- 

 phical distribution of Sirenia, 379 



Worcester, battle of, 51 



Word, schism created by dispute on 

 a, 131 



Worship (divine) of the Chinescs, 

 257 ; of the Hottentots, 289 



Worship, i^ublic, of Roman Catholics, 

 disallowed at Batavia, 225 



Wounds, ulcerated, healed by native 

 simples at the Cape, 294 



Wreck of American ship on Flat la- 

 land, Rodriguez, 327 



Wreede, George Frederick, Governor 

 of Mauritius, Ivi 



Writing and reading useless to Hot- 

 tentots, 295 



X. 



Xantung, a tyrant of China, 245 

 Xao, a Chinese sage, 243 

 Xao-ti-cao, a rapacious Chinese noble- 

 man, 248 

 Ximena, in the Cid, 121 



Yam, species of, 152 



Yao, a Chinese sage, 243 



Years, months, or weeks, unknown to 



natives, 295 

 Yellow-bird, 350 

 Yemam-Xilin, a Chinese philosophic 



hermit, 249 

 Ye-vam, son of Xaoti-cao, 248 



