TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
Departure of the Embassy from Portsmouth. — Arrival off Madeira. — Town of Fun- 
chal. — Mountain Torrent. — Priests. — Flying-fish. — Remarks on its habits. — Pass the 
line. — Cape Frio. — South America. — Harbour of Rio di Janeiro. — St. Sebastian. — 
Fish and vegetable market. — Visit to the Braganza shore. — Sugar Loaf Mountain. — 
Musical instrument of the negro slaves. — Importation of slaves. — Remarks on the slave 
trade. — Second visit to the Sugar Loaf Mountain. — Scenery of the mountain. — Visit 
to the Botanic Garden. — Cultivation of the Tea-plant. — Its preparation. — Plants 
cultivated in the Botanic Garden. — Ipecacuanha plants of the Brazils and of New Spain. 
— Fire-flies. — Islands in the harbour. — Their geological structure. — Fruits. — 
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CHAPTER II. 
Departure of the Embassy from Rio di Janeiro. — Arrival off the Cape of Good Hope. 
— In the Straights of Sunda. — Shark. — Sucking Fish. — Arrival at Sirang. — Vol- 
canic Mountain, — Plassur Pittee. — Javanese instruments. — Dexterity of the natives in 
climbing the Cocoa-nut trees. — Gunong Karang. — Rice fields. — Scenery of Plassur 
Pittee. — Llospitality of the natives. — Their huts. — Visit to the Crater of Gun on g- 
Karang. — Precipitous ascent. — Interesting plants. — Benevolence of the Javanese. — 
Visit to Pandigalang, famed for the manufacture of bracelets. — Javanese arms. — Kriss. 
— Gold and silver ornaments worn by Javanese women. — Native Sulphur. — The Go- 
ramy, a fish common in rivers. — Return to Sirang. — Mineral springs. — Bantam. — 
Ceremony of circumcision. — Sultan of Bantam. — His death. — Great bats of Java. — 
Of the large Snake of Java. — Its habits. — Destroys a man. — Swallows a Goat. — 
Dissection of the Snake. — Power of Snakes. — Geckoo Lizard of Java. — Species of. 
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