INDEX 



233' 234, XII. 49; burnt, x. 235, 

 XII. 66; province of, despoiled by 

 Agira, xi. 363 ; pearl trade at, 



237- 



Rio, Rodrigo del, governor of New 

 Biscay, and the conquest of 

 Cevola (1590) IX. 205. 



Rios, Pedro de los, secretary of the 

 Inquisition in Mexico (1574) ix. 

 424. 



Riosogo, governor of, soldiers of, 

 XI. 426. 



Riphean mountains, 11. 253, iil. 411. 



Rippen, Thomas, and the captain of 

 a negro town in Guinea (1557) vi. 

 224. 



Risophagi, people of East Africa, vi. 

 169. 



Ritimo, captain of Cawo, and Sir 

 Walter Raleigh (1597) xi. 6. 



Rively, George, burnt by the In- 

 quisition in Mexico (1575) ix. 428. 



Rivera, Don Pedro de, detained by 

 Sir John Hawkins on his ship 

 (1568) IX. 402. 



Rivers, John, Russian licence 

 granted to (1569) iii. 109. 



Rivers, John, captain of the Van- 

 tage (1585) X. 98. 



Rivers, farmed out in Russia, iii. 

 206; frozen, in Russia, 361; of 

 Russia, 405-412 ; frozen in winter 

 near Pekin, in China, vi. 323; 

 inhabited, in China, 352 ; use of, 

 in colonizing, by Richard Hak- 

 luyt, VII. 246; deep, in Florida, 

 VIII. 430; forty, in Guiana, 

 navigable for merchants, x. 480 ; 

 great number of, in Peru, xi. 281. 



Roan, see Roanne. 



Roan, see Rouen. 



Roanne, Captain Gourgues hiding 

 at (1570) IX. III. 



Roanoac, see Roanoke. 



Roanoke Island, in Virginia, viii. 

 304; description, 309; Wingina 

 at, 315; English at (1585) 321, 

 331; conspiracy against Ralph 

 Lane in, 340; Englishmen left in, 

 by Sir Richard Grenville (1586) 

 348 ; John White and the English- 

 men left in (1587) 391 ; fate of the 

 Englishmen left at, 394; Manteo, 

 Lord of (1587) 397; John White's 



departure from, 399; John White 

 at (1590) 414 f . ; English settlers 

 of, gone to Croatan Island, 417; 

 English settlers at, sent by Sir 

 Walter Raleigh (1586) x. 132; 

 taken possession of, in Queen 

 Elizabeth's name, by Amadas and 

 Barlow, xii. 39. 



Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, 

 see Winchelsea. 



Robert, archdeacon of East Riding, 

 witness of Edward I.'s great char- 

 ter, I. 296. 



Robert Curtois, son of William the 

 Conqueror, his voyage to Jeru- 

 salem (1096) IV. 293. 



Robert, son of Godwin, his voyage 

 to Jerusalem (1102) iv. 295. 



Robert de Bruce, eighth King of 

 Scotland (1274-1329), siege of 

 Rushen by (13 13) i. 41. 



Robert de Ketene, voyages and 

 learning of (1143) iv. 308. 



Robert, Master, in Virginia (1585) 

 VIII. 318. 



Roberts, captain of the Exchange, 

 and William King (1592) x. 193. 



Roberts, Henry, ambassador to Mor- 

 occo (1585-1589) VI. 426; his re- 

 ception of the English and foreign 

 merchants near the Tensist, 426 ; 

 his return to England (1588) 427; 

 and the edict of Mully Hamed, 

 428 f. 



Roberts, Henry, of Bristol, captain 

 of the Christopher of Dartmouth, 

 imprisoned in Teneriffe (1574) x. 

 82 ; liberated, 83 ; at the taking of 

 Puerto Santo Island (1595) 214; 

 at the taking of S. lago de Leon 

 (1595) 218, 220. 



Roberts, Humphrey, his escape from 

 the. Contractation House and re- 

 capture (1570) IX. 463; condemned 

 to the galleys, 464. 



Roberval, John Francis de la Roche, 

 Lord de, viii. 266 ; governor of 

 Canada (1540) 263; his voyage 

 delayed, 264 ; Xanctoigne, chief 

 pilot of (1542) 275; voyages of, 

 283-287, 288-289; discoveries of, 

 XII. 9. 



Robines, Robert, ship master, and 

 Prussian pirates, 11. 64. 



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