LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Examining a " Haul " on Board the Chal- 

 lenger ... ... ... ... Frontispiece. 



The Victory at Portsmouth... ... ... ... 5 



Bocks near Cape St. Vincent ... ... ... 9 



The Victory at Close Quarters with the Redoubtable 12 



The Siege of Gibraltar 17 



The Original Merrimac ... ... ... ... 21 



Engagement between the Merrimac and Monitor. . . 25 

 Objects of Interest brought Home by the Chal- 

 lenger ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 



The Ch a lie nger in Antarctic Ice ... ... ... 33 



The " Accumulator " ... ... ... ... 35 



The Challenger at Juan Fernandez. . . ... ... 36 



The Naturalist's Eoom on Board the Challenger... 37 



Dredging Implements used by the Challenger ... 38 



The Chichester Training-ship ... ... ... 45 



Instruction on Board a Man-of-war ... ... 49 



The Captain in the Bay of Biscay... ... ... 56 



The Wreck of the Royal George 61 



The Loss of the Vanguard ... ... To face pay? 63 



The Loss of the Kent 64 



The Vanguard as she appeared at Low Water ... 65 



Falmouth Harbour ... ... ... ... ... 72 



The Loss of the Birkenhead ... ... ... 73 



The Eaft of the Medusa 76 



On the Eaft of the Medusa a Sail in sight ... 81 



Section of a First-class Man-of-war 84 



The Warrior 85 



The Eock of Gibraltar from the Mainland 



To face page 87 



Gibraltar : the Neutral Ground 89 



Moorish Tower at Gibraltar 93 



Malta ... ... ... ... ... 96 



The Defence of Malta by the Knights of St. John 



against the Turks in 1565 100 



Catacombs at Citta Vecchia, Malta 101 



M. Lesseps ... ... ... ... ... ... 105 



Bird's-eye View of Suez Canal 109 



Map of the Suez Canal Ill 



Opening of the Suez Canal (Procession of Ships) 



To face page 113 



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The Suez Canal: Dredges at Work 113 



Catching Pelicans on Lake Men zaleh ... ... 116 



Jiddah, from the Sea ... ... ... ... 117 



Cyclone at Calcutta ... .... ... ... ... 120 



Macao... ... ... ... ... ... ... 124 



Vessels in the Port of Shanghai ... ... ... 125 



Yokohama 128 



The Fusiyama Mountain ... ... ... ... 129 



A Tea Mart in Japan ... ... ... ... 133 



Petropaulovski and the Avatcha Mountain ... 137 



Whalers at Work 140 



Our " Patent Smoke-stack " ... - ... ... 141 



View in the Straits of Malacca ... ... ... 145 



Junks in a Chinese Harbour ... ... ... 148 



Island in the Straits of Malacca ... To face page 149 



Chinese Junk at Singapore ... ... ... 149 



Singapore, looking Seawards ... ... ... 152 



Looking down on Singapore ... ... ... 1 53 



A Timber Wharf at San Francisco ... ... 156 



The Bay of San Francisco 160 



The British Camp : San Juan ... ... ... 165 



The Port of Valparaiso 173 



Cape Horn 176 



The Landing of Columbus at Trinidad ... ... 177 



View in Jamaica ... ... ... ... ... 180 



Kingston Harbour, Jamaica ... ... ... 181 



Havana ... ... ... ... ... ... 184 



The Centaur at the Diamond Eock, Martinique 



To face page 187 



Bermuda, from Gibbs Hills ... ... ... 188 



The North Eock, Bermuda 189 



The Bermuda Floating Dock 192 



Voyage of the Bermuda ... ... ... ... 193 



Map of New York Harbour ... ... ... 195 



Brooklyn Bridge 196 



Ferry Boat, New York Harbour 197 



The Island of Ascension ... ... ... ... 200 



Tristan D'Acunha 201 



Sierra Leone ... ... ... ... ... ... 204 



Cape Town 205 



The Galatea passing Knysna Heads ... ... 209 



