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GENERAL INDEX. 



Ascension, Island of, i. 200, 202 ; abundance of turtle, 202 



" Assari Tefvik " (Turkish) and ''Vesta" (liussiau) ships: 

 action between them, i. 27 



Assistance, the search for Franklin, iii. 207 



Assyrian skin-floats and basket-boats, i. 258 



" Astarte," wreck of the, iv. 243 



Astoria? (starfish), iv. 125 



Astrology, modem belief in, iv. 278 



Astronomy and Astronomers : the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, Sir G. B. Airy, Astronomer-Royal, and his pre- 

 decessors, iv. 278 282 



Atlantic Ferry, the Great : history of Transatlantic navi- 

 gation, iv. 1 ; steerage of a steam -ship now and forty years 

 ago, 4, 10 12; different routes of circumnavigation, ih. ; 

 Dickeus's first trip, 3 12: dinner in a storm, 9; sub-marine 

 telegraph cables : historical notices, 100 



Atlantic Ocean : its depth aiid other characteristics, i. 29 ; 

 chart, iv. 88 



Audubou : passenger-pigeons on the Ohio, iii. 167 



Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, iii. 278 



Austin, Captain : search for Franklin in the Resolute, iii. 20" ; 

 "Fox" expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 216 



Australia, discovery of gold in, i. 151 ; voyages of Dampier 

 and Captain Cook, ib. ; Botany Bay, ib. : Possession Island, 

 152 : Port Jackson, ib. : Sydney Cove, ib. ; growth of 

 population, 153 ; transportation and free emigration, ib. ; 

 Sydney, 154 : hot winds, 155 ; Port Philip, ib. ; Melbourne, 

 Ib. : Sydney, iv. 52 ; Melbourne : view in Collins Street, 53 ; 

 gold, ")") 



Australian Naval Station, i. 119, 131. 150 



Austro-Huugarian Arctic expedition, iii. 270 ; the "Teget- 

 hoff : " two years oil an ice-floe, 271 



Avatcha Bay and Mountain, i. 131, 137 



Avery, Captain, the pirate, iii. 59 62 



Avocado, or alligator-pear, i. 186 



Back, Captain: Arctic voyages, iii. 166, 189, 193, 194; his 



voyage in the Terror; nipped in the ice, 197 ; his address to 



his men on the Terror, 201 

 Back's Great Fish River, iii. 217 

 Baffin, William: his Arctic voyages, iii. 149 

 Bahamas, wrecking at the, ii. 244 

 Baker, the diver, accompanying Captain Webb in his swim 



across the Channel, iv. 264 

 Ballautyne, R.M. : "The Floating Light on the Goodwin 



Sands," iv. 245 



Banks, Sir Joseph : expedition of the Bounty, i. 235 

 Baptism, ceremony of, iii. 4 

 Baranoff , Captain : action between the ' ' Vesta ' ' and ' ' Assari 



Tefvik," i. 27 

 Barbary, Pirates ii. 42 

 Barents, William : his voyage of discovery, iii. 12D 140 ; his 



death in Nova Zembla, iii. 139, 140 

 Barlow, Captain : discovery of Virginia, i. 319 

 Barnsfield, Edward : discovery of South Polar laud, iii. 278 

 Barrow, Sir John : Arctic exploration, iii. 162, 166, 169 

 Barton, John, a Scotch pirate of the fifteenth century, i. 279 

 Barton, Sir Andrew, defeated, i. 257 

 Basco, Michael de, the pirate, iii. 19 

 Bastia, siege of, i. 7 



Bastides, Rodrigo de : his expedition to America, iii. 303, 304 

 Bathing : Nautilus Safety Bathing Dress, iv. 262 

 Bathing : warm or tepid baths a medium for learning to swim 



(Sec Swimming. ) 

 Bay of God's Mercy, iii. 178 



Bayeux Tapestry : ships of William the Conqueror, i. 268 

 Beachey Head, iv. 231 ; French vessel wrecked, 231, 233 

 Bears in the Polar region, iii. 98, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136, 137, 



141, 184, 212, 219, 260, 261, 263; flesh and liver of the bear 



as food, 138 

 Beaumaris, ii. 305 

 Beechey, Captain : his visit to Pitcairu's Island, i. 249 ; Arctic 



Voyages, iii. 166, 167 



Beechy Island, iii. 98 ; relics of Franklin's last voyage, iii. 210 

 Beeching, James : his prize life-boat, ii. 213 

 Behring, Vitus : his monument in Petropaulovski, i. 132, 135 ; 



his Arctic discoveries and death, iii. 159 162 

 Belcher, Sir Edward, Polar Exploration, iii. 98 

 Belemuites, iv. 143 

 Bell, Henry: his passenger steamer, "Comet," ii. 25; his first 



advertisement, ib. 98 



Bell Rock Lighthouse, ii. 172, 176 



Bells on board ship in indicating time, i. 50 



Bcllerophon : surrender of Napoleon, i. 212 



Belliughausen : discovery of the most southern land, iii. 279,. 

 280 



Bellona : action with the " Courageux," i. 22S 



Bellot, Lieut., Monument to, iii. 97 



Belvedere, Kent : home for disabled and worn-out merchant 

 seamen, iv. 273 



Bennett, Dr. : his " Songs for Sailors," i. 8 



" Bergetta" plundered by wreckers, ii. 243 



Bering Sea, i. 135, 137, 169, 170 ; Captain Scammon's sound- 

 ings, 138 



Bermuda, i. 187: view from Gibbs' Hill, 188; convicts, i'>. : 

 the North Rock, 189, 191 ; potato and onion orchards, 190 ; 

 the floating dock, 191 ; its voyage out, 191, 194 



Berrio : Spanish expedition to El Dorado, ii. 9 



Biblical allusions to the Sea, iv. 290 



Bideford ; Avery, the pirate, living at, iii. 61 



BidefordBar: wreck of the Woolpacket, ii. 224 ; hovellers, 2";1 



" Birkenhead," loss of the, i. 73 75 ; iv. 283 



Bishop Rock Lighthouse, ii. 269 



Black Beard (John Theach), the pirate, ii. 63 



Black Prince, i. 18 ; ii. 143 



Bladder- wrack, iv. 201 



Blake, Admiral, ii. 30 



Blenheim, i. 8 



Bligh, Captain : Mutiny of the Bounty, i. 235 ; seized by the 

 mutineers, 237 ; cast adrift, 240 



Blind crustacean from the Atlantic voyage of the CltnUem/er, 

 i. 31, 32 



Blindness : snow blindness, iii. 182, 239 



Blood, Rev. William, survivor of the burning of the ' ' Amazon ' ' : 

 his description of it, ii. 285 



Blossom : Capt. Beechey's visit to Pitcairu's Island, i. 24D 



Boat, ancient, found at New Stoke, iv. 230 



Boat improperly hung on board the "Amazon," ii. 279 



Boat voyages of Behreus in the Arctic Regions, iii. 138142; 

 of Captain Parry, 179 : of Dr. Kane, 251 



Bobadilla : his arrest aiid ill-treatment of Columbus, iii. 296, 

 297, 304 



Boers of South Africa, i. 208 



Bombay, i. 118 



Bonita, a tropical fish, iv. 176 



" Bonne Homme Richard": Paul Jones's ship, iii. 75 



Boobies and Noddies taken by Bligh, mutiny of the Botoitii, 

 i. 243, 244 



Books found among the relics of Franklin's expedition, iii. 2:51 



Booth, Mr. Sheriff : Sir John Ross's Arctic expedition fitted 

 out by him, iii. 186 ; survey of Boothia Felix, 187 



Boston (U.S.) : the obnoxious tax on tea, ii. 67, 68; Boston 

 port bill ; the port closed, 70, 71 



Botallack Mine, Cornwall, iv. 207, 209 



Botany of Ceylon, i. 119 : Cornwall, iv. 213, 216 ; Juan Fer- 

 nandez, i. 34 : Malta, i^ 99; St. Helena, i. 212 ; Singapore, 

 i. 144 ; South Australia, i. 154 ; Trinidad, i. 182 ; West 

 Indies, 182, 186, 188 



Botany, Marine. (See ChaUencier, Cruise of the.) 



Botany Bay discovered, i. 151 ; as a convict settlement, 152 



Bounty : History of the mutiny, i. 235249 ; discovery of sur- 

 vivors on Pitcairn Island, 247. 



Boyle, Frederick : Cape Town, i. 204, 208 ; diamond fields, 

 210 ; ostrich fanning, 210 



Boyton, Captain Paul : his floating dress, iv. 261 



Brand, Mr., lost in the " Northfleet," ii. 263, 264 



Braude's analysis of crimson snow, iii. 164 



Brasiliauo, Roche, the pirate, iii. 3, 14,15, 16; his escape, 15 



Brassey, Mrs. : Yokohama, iv. 40 ; a Japanese dinner, 42 ; the 

 " Sunbeam " in a gale, 61 ; a wreck encountered, 62 ; a ship 

 on fire : fifteen lives saved by the " Sunbeam," iv. 63 ; coral 

 fields of the South Pacific, 75 



Bread-fruit in Otaheite : expedition of the Bounty ; history 

 of the mutiny, i. 235 



Breakwater: The Cherbourg Breakwater and fortifications, 

 its origin and history, ii. 188; progress of the works, 1S9 : 

 view, 192; Plymouth Break water, 190: Portland Breakwater, 

 192 ; Holyhead, 196 ; breakwater at Venice, view, 188 



Brialmont on ships and forts, i. 14 



Bridport, Lord : mutiny at Spithead, i. 250 



Brierly, Oswald W., Cruise of the Galatea, i. 205 



Brighton, iv. 229, 232 



