GENERAL INDEX. 



307 



Brighton Aquarium, iv. 114 



Brilliant : the boatswain's mate at Trafalgar, i. 227 ; action 



with French ships, 228 

 Britannia, i. 5. 



' ' Britannia ' ' training ship, i. 47 

 " Britannia " : Dickens' s first trip to America, iv. 5 

 British Columbia, i. 163 ; Cariboo Mines, Ib. ; cedar canoes, i. 



167 

 Briton at Pitcaim Island: survivors of the mutiny of the 



Bounty, i. 248 



Brooke, G. V., lost in the " London," ii. 294 

 Brooklyn, New York, i. 195, 198 ; Brooklyn Bridge, 196, 198 

 Browning, Robert : his lines on passing through the Straits of 



Gibraltar, i. 87 ; his poem, " Herv^ Riel," iv. 301 

 Brunei, J. K. : portrait, ii. 129; designs for the "Great 



Eastern," 130 ; the launch, ib. ; view and description of the 



ship, 130, 133 ; Thames Tunnel : use of the diving-bell, iv. 



85 



Bubble Companies : the South Sea Bubble, ii. 43 

 Bucauiers, The, iii. 1 59 ; origin of the term, 2 

 Bueentaure, i. 10, 11 



Buchan, Captain : Arctic voyage, iii. 166, 167 

 Buchanan, Captain, of the "Merrimac," i. 20 

 "Buenos Ayreaii," steel steam-ship, iv. 3. 

 Bulkley, Colonel, at Plover Bay, i. 138, 143 

 Bullata from the Atlantic, i. 32. 

 Burgoyue, Captain, lost in the Captain, i. 55 

 Buxton, Sir Thomas Powell : his heroism in saving life, iv. 267 

 Byron, Lord : his references to the Sea, i. 2, iv. 296 : his swim 



across the Hellespont, iv. 257 ; lines on the Straits of 



Gibraltar, 97 ; the bread-fruit ; mutiny of the Bmmty, 238 

 Byron, Hon. John : wreck of the Wager, ii. 51 55 

 "By well Castle": collision with the "Princess Alice," iv. 



284 



Cabot, John, attempts to discover the North-west Passage, 

 iii. 119, 122 



Cabot, Sebastian: his discoveries, i. 278; iii. 119, 121; re- 

 warded by Edward VI., 121 



" Cacafuego," treasure ship, taken by Drake, i. 311 



Cadiz, siege of, ii. 18 ; execution of De Soto, the pirate, iii. 

 83 ; view of the town, 81 



Cairns in the Polar Regions, iii. 97 



"Calais-Douvres," iv. 6 



Calcutta, i. 118; the Black Hole, ib. ; cyclones, 119, 120 



Calicut : arrival of Vasco da Gama, iii. 299 ; the city bom- 

 barded, ib. ; view of Calicut in the sixteenth century, 300 



California : discovery of gold, i. 158 ; Chinamen in, 161 ; 

 earthquakes, ib. ; named "New Albion" by Drake, 313; 

 " roughing it," camping out, cooking, 166; forest fires, ib. ; 

 cedar canoes, 1G7 ; Sacramento ; Oakland, iv. 28 ; Sau 

 Francisco, 29 



Callao, i. 172 ; Drake at, 310 



Calthorpe, Hon. S. J. G. : his "Letters" on the Crimean 

 War, i. 15 



Calvi, the Victor;/ at, i. 7 



Calypso's Isle, i. 98 



"Cambria," its assistance in the burning of the "Kent," i. 

 6974 



Cameron, John: "Our Possessions in Malayan India," i. 144, 

 146, 147 



Ca:-npbell, Lord George: cruise of the Challenger, i. 28, 33, 

 34, 35, 39 



Canadian Voyageurs in Franklin's expedition, iii. 190, 191, 

 194 



Cannibalism, i. 80 : iii. 121 ; iv. 47, 52 



Canoes, river and sea: Vancouver Island and British Co- 

 lumbia, i. 167 



Canton, i. 119, 121, 124 



Canute's ships, i. 266 



Cape Alexander, Greenland, iii. 249 



Cape Bounty discovered by Sir E. Parry, iii. 170 



Cape Cod, Discovery of, ii. 11 ; view of, ii. 64 



Cape Chelyuskin, iii. 274 



Cape Constitution, iii. 239 



('ape Desolation, iii. 88 



Cape Farewell, iii. 93 



Cape Flattery, Vancouver Island, i. 163 



Cape of Good Hope : its discovery ; Cape Town, Table Moun- 

 tain, i, 203, 205 ; iii. 282 ; Port Elizabeth, i. 204 ; Simon's 

 Bay, 205 ; visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, 205209 ; Fanner 



Peck's Inn, 206; diamond fields: ostrich farming, 210; 

 mutiny suppressed, 256 ; first named the Cape of Storms, 

 iii. 282 ; Waves, iv. 89 

 Cape Horn, i. 175, 176 ; Sir F. Drake, 309 ; Anson, ii. 48, 



49 ; the pirate Sharp, iii. 56 ; view, iii. 277 

 Cape Joseph Henry, sledging at, iii. 112 

 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, i. 203, 205 

 Cape York : icebergs, iii. 100 ; view of Melville Bay, iii. 228 

 Captain (Nelson's ship), i. 8 

 Captain, Loss of the, i. 54 59 ; cause of the disaster, i. 58 ; 



ii 143; iv. 283 



Caraccioli, the priests-pirate, iii. 64, 65, 67 

 Caribbee Islands discovered by Columbus, iii. 294 ; attacked by 



Ojeda, 302 



Cariboo Gold Mines, British Columbia, i. 163 

 Carlisle, A.D., B.A. : "Round the World in 1870," iv. 29, 31 

 Carlsen, Captain : relics of Barents' s expedition discovered by 



him at Nova Zembla, iii. 142, 



" Caroline : " its assistance in the burning of the " Kent," i. 72 

 Carrageen : or Irish moss, iv. 202 

 Carthage, Ships of, i. 259 

 Cat, The, as a punishment, i. 51, 52 

 Catacombs at Citta Vecchia, Malta, i. 101, 103 

 Catoptric lights for lighthouses, ii. 186 

 Cavalli (fish) of Juan Fernandez, i. 34 



Cavendish, Thomas: his circumnavigation of the globe, ii. 11 

 Caverns of the sea-shore, iv. 195, 200 

 Cedar canoes of Vancouver Island, i. 167 

 Centaur at the Diamond Rock, Martinique, i. 161, 187 

 Centipedes, cockroaches, and spiders in ships, i. 221 

 Centurion : Ausou's voyage round the world, ii. 45 62 

 Cephalopoda, iv. 139, 142 

 Cerberus, monitor, at Sydney, iv. 54. 

 Cerimbra Roads, Mouson's action at, ii. 21 

 Ceuta, Spanish fortress of, i. 97 

 Ceylon, i. 119, 144; pearl fishery, iv. 67 



Challenger, Cruise of the, i. 28 ; deep sea soundings, ib. ; work 



of the expedition, and how it was done, 29 ; Captain Sir 



George S. Nares, ib. ; Prof. Wyville Thomson, ib. ; sponges, 



zoophytes, star-fish, Crustacea, cuttle-fish ; island of Juan. 



Fernandez, 33, 36 ; the ship in Antarctic ice, ib. ; Kergueleu's 



Land ; Heard Island ; sea elephants, 34 ; icebergs, 35 ; 



naturalist's room in the ship, 37 ; dredging instruments, 38 ; 



Inaccessible Island : rescue of two voluntary Crusoes, 39 



Chancelor, Richard : his journey to Moscow, iii. 122, 123 



Chaplains on board ship, i. 222 ; trials of Joseph Primrose, 



223 

 Chard, Joseph : his exertions in saving life from shipwrecks, 



iv. 248 



Charles I. and ship-money, ii. 28 ; his navy, 29, 30 

 Chaucer's description of the British sailor, i. 272 

 Cherbourg Breakwater, history and progress, ii. 188 ; view, 



192 



Chesil Bank, ii. 193, 195 

 Chicago, iv. 15; view in Madison Street, 17. 

 Chichester training ship, i. 45, 47 

 Chili, i. 172 



" Chimborazo " in a gale, iv. 13 

 China : Hong Kong, iv. 43 ; Shanghai, 44. 

 China : John Chinaman in Sau Francisco, i. 161 ; iv. 31 

 "China" in a cyclone in the Pacific, iv. 39; destroyed by 



fire, ib. 



China Naval Station, i. 119, 137 

 " China," steam ship, iv. 31 

 Chinese junks at Singapore, i. 147, 148 

 Chinese obstructions to foreign travel, iv. 5 

 Chinese paintings, i. 126, 147 

 Chinese phrases: "Pigeon English," i. 126; customs and 



costume, 127 



Chinese waiters on board ship, iv. 38 

 Chinese Merchants' Steam-ship Company, iv. 31 

 " Chinook jargon," "Pigeon English," i. 167 

 Christian IV. of Denmark : his encouragement of Arctic ex- 

 ploration, iii. 150 ; his ill-treatment of Muiik, 151 

 Christian, Fletcher : the mutiny of the Bounty' i. 239-247 ; 



shot by an Otaheitan, 249 



Christian, Thursday October, sou of Fletcher Christian, dis- 

 covered 011 Pitcaim Island, i. 247 

 Christmas in the Arctic regions, iii. 103, 222, 224, 263 

 " Cinco Chagas " (the Five Wounds) burnt by the Earl of 

 Cumberland, i. 294 



