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INDEX. 
PAGE 
Bishop of the Canaries 
- 51 
Bite of a man produces hydrophobia 
- 196 
Blahe, Admiral, bold attempt of 
- 30 
Bonetta, an esculent fish 
- 60 
Boohs scarce in Rio de Janeiro 
- 90 
Boors, Dutch, rambling disposition 
of - 369 
Booshuanas - - - 
- 
Borrachas or goat-skin bags 
- I I 
BosjestndTis - . • 
- 3«i 
are monorchides . . . 
- 383 
Bottle, experiment with one 
- 63 
Brazilian coast 
- 74 
Brazils - - 
103—136 
BvJha, religion of, in Cochinchina 
.328 
C 
Calcareous stones, products of animated 
beings - - 
- 168 
Callao, island of - - - 335 
Camelopardalis, great speed of - - 3 86 
Candelaria, St., protectress of the island 
of TenerifFe - - - 5° 
Canary islands, probably the Fortunate 
Islands - - "55 
Canals of Batavia - - -213 
Cape de Verd islands, whence SO called - 67 
Cape Frio - - - - 64 
Cape of Good Hope, winds and weather 
off the - - - 140 
Cascade near Rio de Janeiro - - loi 
Catechu - - - - 227 
Cathcart, Colonel, tomb of in Anjerie 
fort - - - - 163 
Ceremonies, religious, in Rio - - 98 
Chamber of skulls - . . ^ 
China trade, importance of - - 3 38 
Chinese, condition of, in Batavia - - 216' 
massacre of, in 1740 - - 219 
manners and customs of, compared 
with Coehinchinese - - 300 
driven from their usual channels of 
trade - - - - 3^0 
horrid torture of one - - - 
trade of to New Holland - - 354 
ancient navigation of - - - 356 
Christendom not much extended by the 
labours of missionaries - - 108 
CAz^rr/ifj of Laguna - - - 36 
Clergy of Madeira - - " ^4 
of TenerifFe - - - 49 
of Porta Praya - - -66 
of Rio - - - - ~ 91 
Climate of Madeira - - - 10 
Cloud, remarkable, over the mountains of 
Madeira - - 3 
Cochinchina - • 243 — j6o 
Cock-fighting, favourite amusement of the 
Malays - - - 235 
Colonists, European, destroy the natives 107 
Commerce, general observations on - 131 
Commercial productions of Cochinchina - 340 
Compass affected by the Iron Mountain - 3 85 
antiquity of in China - - - 356 
objections against answered - 357 
Convent of Nossa Senhora do Monte - 5 
of Franciscans - - - 7 
of Santa Clara - 93 
Conway, Governor of Pondicherry, cha- 
racter of, by Lewis XVI. - 264 
Cotton of the Brazils - - . 123 
Cora/ islands, observations on - - 165 
not found in the Atlantic - - l6j 
