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INDEX 



Megaron Palace, Great, 51 



Megasthenes, 55 

 Mehavn, 303 

 Meiklewood, 14 

 Melanesians, 114 

 Mellowes, 137 



Melville, Captain Thomas, 234 

 Melville, Herman, 249, 264 

 Melville Bay, 90, 277 

 Mentawi Islands, 114 

 Mesolithic Period, 13 

 Mesoplodon bidens, 281, 386 

 Mesoplodon densirostris, 282 

 Mesoplodon grayi, 386 

 Mesoplodon mirus, 282 

 Mesopotamia, 29, 37, 47, 52, 54, 56 

 Me sot eras, 353 

 Mexico, 21, 180, 259 

 Gulf of, xxiv, 212 

 Mice, II 

 Middle Ice, 279 

 Middle Stone Age, ij 

 Middlefart, 8 

 Minnesota, 86, 93 

 Minoans, 47, 51, 52 

 Miocene Period, 352, 375 

 Mississippi River, 94, 103 

 Moby Dick, 264 

 Molluscs, 312 

 Molucca Strait, 49 

 Mongolia, 113 

 Mongoloid, 109 

 Monodon monoceras, 91, 387 

 Monsoons, 52 

 Moose, II 

 Morocco, 77, 214 

 Mosarna, ^6 

 Motorboats, 192, 314 

 Mounds, burial, 83, 88, 107 

 Mozambique, 306, 307 

 Muk-tuk (mattak), 93, 192 

 Murals, 47, 51, 133 

 Musandam, Cape, 33 

 Muscat coast, 29, 32 

 Muscovy Company, 150, 152, 183, 



224 

 Museum, British, 38, 328 

 Museum, Eden, 330 

 Mussels, II 

 Mycenaeans, 51 



Mystic, 251, 262 

 Mysticeti, 283, 354, 383 



Nadd-od, 85 

 Nakhiru, 38 

 Nantucket, xi, 184, 193, 203, 212, 213, 



216, 251, 298 

 Nantucketers, 186, 203, 210, 212, 224, 



Narbonne, 6$ 



Narwhal, xiv, 90, 91, 112, 192, 204, 351, 



387 

 Narwhal, 279 

 Neanderthal Man, 132 

 Nearchus, 33, 54 

 Negritos, 114 

 Negro peoples, 32, 262 

 Neobalaena marginata, 239, 383 

 Neolithic Period, 3, 13, 107, 116 

 Neomeris phocaenoides, 361, 393 

 Netherlands, 169 



Nets, fishing, 12, 51, 79, 119, 190, 192 

 New Bedford, 213, 247, 251, 260, 261 

 New Brunswick, 9 

 New Caledonia, 238 

 New England, ix, 86, 129, 162, 262 

 New Englanders, xiii, 82, 168, 213, 226, 



236, 247, 262 

 New Guinea, 1 14 

 New Hebrides, 114 

 New Jersey, 21 

 New London, 251 

 New South Wales, 237, 330 

 New York, 184, 187, 224, 252 

 New Zealand, xxiv, 115, 191, 230, 232, 



234, 236, 238, 240, 311, 314, 354 

 Newcomen, Thomas, 278 

 Newfoundland, xxi, 138, 140, 142, 151, 



182, 303, 306 

 Nigerians, 262 

 Nihon Shoki, 118 

 Nihongi, 118 

 Nile River, 34, 37, 47 

 Ninevah, 38, 40 

 Nippon, 102, 106, 108, no, 116 

 Niser, 20 



Nishimura, Professor Shinji, 108 

 Noordsche Company, 169 

 Noortkaper (nordkaper), 134, 158 

 Nordland, 78 



