468 : Index 



BaflBn Land, 126 



Bahama Current, 49, 51 



Bahama Islands, 47, 49, 144, 147, 171 



Bailey, David G., 303 



Bailey, J. W., 256 



Baines, James, 275 



Baines, James, clipper ship, 273 



Balboa, Vasco Nunez, 149, 156 



Balenny, Captain, 213 



Balloons, 393-97 



Baltic Sea, 25 



Baltimore Clippers, 228-29, 264-65 



Bancroft, George, 375 



Barbarigo, 360 



Barents, William, 201-02 



Barents Sea, 21 



Barker, Captain, 307 



Barnum, P. T., 245, 331 



Bates, Joshua, clipper ship, 275 



Bayly, Sir Lewis, 424 



Beachey, Lincoln, 403 



Beagle, i^y 



Beatty, Sir David, 421, 423 



Bell, Alexander Graham, 419 



Bell & Brovi^n, 268, 270 



Bellinghausen, Admiral F. G., 266 



Benguela Current, 53, 54 



Bennett, Floyd, 406 



Berengaria, steamship, 345 



Bering Sea, 24 



Bering Strait, 20, 207, 212 



Bermuda, 29, 52 



Berryman, O. H., 256, 316 



Biddle, Nicholas, 368 



Bingham Foundation for Oceanogra- 

 phy, 259 



Biscay, Bay of, 23, 48 



Biscoe, Captain, 213 



Bismarc\, batdeship, 435 



Bismarck, Otto von, 415 



Bismarc\, steamship, 344-45 



Bjarne, 113 



Black Ball Line, 236, 237, 240, 241, 245, 

 247, 267, 295, 303 



Blackburn, Howard, 332-33 



Black Deatii, 158-59, 168 



Blake, survey vessel, 258 



Blanchard, Jean Pierre Frangois, 394 



Bleriot, Louis, 401, 402 



Blessing of the Bay, 191 



Block, Captain Adrian, 178, 285 



Blommaert, Samuel, 179 



Blue Water, 326 



Boit, John, Jr., 328 



Bojador, Cape, 138 



Bone, Captain David, 342 



Bon Homme Richard, 370 



Boole, Albenia, 270 



Boone, Daniel, 181 



Borchgrevink, Carsten, 213 



Bosphorus, 24 



Boston, 247, 271 



Botelho, Diogo, 81, 327, 335 



Bowne, William, 235, 236 



Brassey, Lord, 317 



Brazil Current, 53 



Brequet, 401 



Breman, airplane, 408 



Breman, motor vessel, 345, 346 



Brendan, St., 107 



Brindle Cow, 130 



Britannia, steamship, 301 



Br0gger, A. W., 84, 107 



Brooke, John Mercer, 256, 316, 377, 378 



Broughton, Captain, 368 



Brudel, Captain, 328-29 



Brunei, Isambard Kingdom, 300, 303, 



304, 306, 318-19 

 Bryer, Captain, 242 

 Buchanan, 377, 379 

 Buck, Dr. Peter, 86 

 Buckley, J. C, 329 

 Bulloch, Captain James D., 385 

 Burgess, W. Starling, 401 

 Burier, General B. F., 382 

 Byrd, Admiral Richard E., 406, 407 



Cabeza De Vaca, Alvarez Nunez, 171 



Cables, 312-23 



Cable ships, 322-23 



Cabin class liners, 342 



Cabot, John, 122-23, 124, 143, 148 



Cabot, Sebastian, 123 



Cabral, 54, 142, 149 



Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez de, 173 



Cadamosto, 138 



Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe, 175 



Cadiz, 82 



