INDEX 
part i.— historical. 
Acclimatization of troops for India, 
17 
Acreage, 41 
Admiralty, 44 
African Benefit Society, 41 
African establishment at Kupcrt s, 
31, 37 
African slave trade, 30 
African squadron, 31 
Africans, edneation of, 41 
Africans retnrn to native land, 46 
Agriculture, 18, 28, 32, 43 
Agricultural improvements, Id 
Agricultural Society, 42 
Alarm House, 16 
A-iiiscctl 2 . 
Appearance of island on arrival, 
36 
Artillery, 17, 29, 32 
shantee war, 45 
Asses, 2, 13 _ 
Astronomical observations, 15 
3alcombe, Mr., 25 
Baptists, 33 
Barley, 41 
Barracks, 15, 28, 38 
Barrenness, 42 
Basil, 2 
Bazette, Major, 16 
Beatson’s experiments, 18 
Beatson, suppression of mutiny, 
Benevolent Society, 40 
Beuuetfs Point, Dutch and at, 5 
lieresford, Genl., 17 
Bermuda cedar, 35 
Bertram, Mr., 33 
Bertrand, Marshal, 24 
Bertrand’s bouse, 38 
Berwick, mutineer, 20 
Bishopric, 38 
Blackberry, spread oi, L7 
Black square, 18 
Blight, 42 
Brewing, 19 
Briars, The, 25, 38 
Bricks, 13 , 
British trade, importance of island 
to, 28 
Broughton, Col., 21 
Boeuos Ayres, expedition sent to, 
17 
Buttermilk Point, 11 
Canary Islands, 36 
Capabilities for produce, 4d 
Cape of Good Hope, garrison sent 
to assist at, 17 
Cape wine, 19 
Carriages, 37 
Cat Hole Boad, 33 
Cattle, 43 . , - 
Cavendish, first visit ot, d 
Cemetery, Chinese, IS 
Census, 13 
Chapels, 40 
Chapel Valley, 5 
Charter to E. I. Co., 4, 7 
Chinese, introduction ot, 18 
Chubbs Spring, water conveyed 
from, 15 
Churches, number ot, 38 
Church of England, 33 
Church service, irregular per- 
formance of, 12 
Church Society, 41 
Cinchona, introduction ot, do 
Civil Establishment, reduction ot, 
33 
Cianghton, Bishop, 33 
Clergymen, 12 
Cookburn, Sir w., 24 
Colonial chaplain, 33 
Colonial office, 44 
Colony, as a, mistake 44 
Commons, 41 
Consulates, 37 
Country church, 32 
Country, value oi property in, 4d 
Crane, 17 
Cricket ground, 38 
Custom House, 34, 38 
Cypress trees, 15 
Eccentricities of Gov, Bouchier, 1 
Economy, spirit of, 37, 45 
Edinburgh, Duke of, visit of, 34 
Emigration to Cape of Good Hope, 
30 
English Mail, arrival of, 36 
English take St. Helena, 5 
Equatorial regions, 36 
European goods, prices of, 37 
Europeans, settlement of, 7 
Enryalus, H.M.S , visit of, 34 
Execution of mutineers, 22 
Exhibitions, agricultural and 
horticultural, 32 
Exotic plants, 23, 35 
Expenditure, annual, 29 
Expenditure on military works, 44 
Exports, 43 
Fairs, 38 
Farmers, 43 
Favourite, 31 
Fennel, 2 
Fernandez Lopez, 2 
Fig trees, 2 
Fiie plugs, 28 
Fir timber, 43 
Ford, Mr., 20 
Foreigners, surprise of, 44 
Fortifications, 5, 7, 12, 41 
Fort James, 5 
France and England, war between, 
11 
Francis and Mary, 10 
Francis Plain, 88 
Furze, 14 
Date trees, 2 
Deadwood, 38 
Death, sentence of, 16 
Debt, 9 ... 
Defeue.es, condition ot, 44 
Depression, causes of, 44 
Discovery, 1 
Disorder, period ot, id 
Disseut, 33 
Drainage of Jamestown, 84 
Drinking-houses, 15 
Drunkenness, means for preveut- 
Duke Crisp, robbery by, 14 
Dutch East lndiamen, capture ot, 
17 
Dutch surrender to Capt. Munden, 
6 -an 
Dutch take possession, d, o 
East India Company, charter to, 7 
East India Company take posses- 
sion, 4 
Gardens, Maldivia and Botanical, 
38 
Garrison, 17, 23, 29, 42, 44 
Garrison during Napoleon’s cap- 
tivity, 25 
Goats, 2, ]4, 19 
Gourguud, Genl., 24 
Government, home, 44 
Government House, 17, 29, 43 
Governor Beale, 5 
Beatson, 18 
Bennett, 5 
Blackmore, 9 
Bouchier, 13 
Brodie F'raser, 32 
Bmoke, 16, 27, 28 
Byfield, 13 
Clark, 33 
Coney, 5 
Corneille, 15 
Dallas, 28, 42 
Drummond Hay, 33 
