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GENERAL INDEX. 



Cinque Ports, i. 267 



" City of Berlin," Atlantic steamer, iv. 3 



" City of Brussels," Atlantic steamer, iv. 3 



" City of Kichmoud," Atlantic steamer, iv. 3 



Cleodora, a univalve shell, iv. 145 



"Clermout," steam vessel, built by Fulton and Livingston, 

 ii. 93 



Clocks: The "Mother Clock" at the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich, iv. 282 



Clyde and its ship-building yards, The, ii. 97 



oal : early trade in " sea-coal," i. 271 



Coal in the Arctic regions, in. 107 ; in Vancouver Island, i. 

 168 



Coast- guardsmen and their cottages, iv. 232, 234 



Cobb, Captain: burning of the "Kent," i. 69 74. 



Cobden, Richard : his support of M. de Lesseps and the Suez 

 Canal, i. 107 



Cochrane, Admiral: his description of Lieutenant Larmour 

 and the naval service, i. 216 



Cockles, iv. 204, 205 



Cockroaches in ships, i. 221 



Cocoa-nut oil manufactories at Sierra Leone, i. 203 



Cocos, or Keeling Coral Island ; Darwin's description, iv. 75, "6 



Cod : the Newfoundland and English fisheries, iv. 175, 176 



Cod-liver oil a protection to swimmers, iv. 264 



Coeleuterata : Hydrozoa and Actinozoa, iv. 1 15 



Coffin-ships, i. 3 ; ii. 112 



Cold in the Arctic regions, iii. 171, 225, 236, 237, 276. (Sec 

 Temperature. ) 



Colden, C.D. : his " Life of Fulton," ii. 94, 150 



Coles, Captain Cowper Phipps : his invention of revolving 

 turrets, i. 54 ; loss of the Captain, ib. 



Collins, Wilkie : the pilchard fishery, iv. 173 ; Botallack Mine, 

 207, 209 ; Looe, 212 ; Cornish hospitality, 216 ; pedestrianisni, 

 218 



Collins line of steam-ships, ii. 106108 



Collinson, Captain : Search of Franklin in the Enterprise, 

 iii. 211, 214 



Collodon, Dr., on the diving-bell, iv. 83 



Colorado : newspapers at George Town and Central City, iv. 27 



Colour of the sea, i. 35, 87 ; iv. 96 



Colpoys, Admiral : mutiny at Spithead, i. 251 



Columbus, Bartholomew, brother of Christopher Columbus : 

 iii. 285, 295 ; his visit to England, 285 ; imprisoned, 296 



Columbus, Christopher : his landing at Trinidad, i. 177 ; history 

 of his life and discoveries, by his son, iii. 283 ; his personal 

 character and appearance, ib. ; voyage to Iceland, ib. ; first 

 application to Ferdinand and Isabella, 285 ; portrait, ib. ; 

 first voyage, 286 ; land discovered, 288, 289 : his caravels, 

 288 ; at Cuba and Hispaniola, gold and tobacco, 290, 291 ; 

 is shipwrecked, 291 ; return to Spain, royal reception, 

 289, 293 ; second voyage, 294 ; disaffection and mutiny in 

 Hisp_aniola, ib. ; return and third voyage, 295 : general 

 mutiny, ib. ; his arrest and subsequent ill-treatment, 296, 

 297 ; fourth voyage, ib. ; his death, 297 ; burial and final 

 interment at Havana, 298 ; his voyage to Greenland and 

 Iceland, 118 



Columbus, Diego, brother of Christopher Columbus : im- 

 prisoned by Bobadillo, iii. 296 : made Governor of San 

 Domingo, 308 



Columbus, Ferdinand, son of Christopher Columbus: his 

 histoiy of his father and his discoveries, iii. 283 



Concerts on board ship, iv. 35 



" Congress " burnt in action with the " Merrimac," i. 20, 22, 23 



Conrad, Chevalier : his co-operation with M. de Lesseps, i. Ill 



Conus, a univalve shell, iv. 141 



Coode : construction of Portland Breakwater, ii. 194 



Cook, Captain James : his discovery of Botany Bay, i. 151 ; his 

 Arctic vovage, iii. 155, 158 ; voyage of the Resolution and 

 Adventure, 277; discoveries, 278; his career, 318; his 

 tragical death, ib. 



Cook, captain of the " Cambria: " his assistance at the burning 

 of the "Kent," i. 74. 



Cook, Eliza, her verses on the Sea, iv. 299 



"Comet," Bell's passenger steamer, ii. 95, 96 



Comet, naval steam-tug, ii. 98 



Compass on iron ships, ii. 102 



Comrie, Dr. Peter, R.N. : on the discipline in training-ships, 

 i. 46 



Copenhagen, Nelson at, ii. 65, 75 



Coracles, or basket-boats, i. 258 



Coral-islands and coral-fishing, iv. 72, 73 



Coral-reefs in the Red Sea, i. 117 



Corals of Singapore, i. 150 



Coralline, iv. 201 



Cordouan, Tower of, lighthouse, ii. 157 



Cordova, Spanish admiral : battle of St. Vincent, i. 7, 10 



Cork Harbour, ii. 308 



Coruelison: his voyage of discovery, iii. 129, 133, 142 



Cornwall : view on the coast of, i. 297 ; sketches of the coast v 



iv. 207225 ; population, 215 ; mines and fisheries, 215, 21G; 



religion, 223 



Corsairs, Gibraltar attacked by, i. 92 

 Cost of ironclad ships of war, i. 14, 231 ; ii. 146 

 Costa Rica : towns and villages pillaged by pirates, iii. 30 

 Coudin, midshipman of the " Medusa," i. 78, 80 

 Coupang Bay, Lieutenant Bligh at; mutiny of the Bounty, i. 



" Coupland" wrecked at Scarborough, iv. 254 



" Courageux " taken by the Bdlona, i. 229 



Cowries, iv. 140, 141 



Crabs, iv. 129, 151, 154 



Crayfish, iv. 158 



Cricket-match on board ship, iv. 33 



Crimean War, its lessons, i. 15, 19 



Crimson snow, iii. 164 



Croatoan Island, Virginia, ii. 2 



Croker Mountains, an imaginary discovery by Sir John Ross, 



iii. 166, 170 



Cromwell's Navy, i. 232 

 Cromwell's Navigation Act, ii. 30 

 Crossing the Line : old ceremonies, i. 229 

 Crozier, Captain : Arctic exploration, iii. 179, 230 

 Crusaders : their ships, i. 267, 269 

 Crusoe, Robinson : Alexander Selkirk ; Defoe and the island. 



of Juan Fernandez, i. 33, 36 

 Crusoe's Island (Tobago), i. 179; ii. 50 

 Crustaceans, iv. 150 

 Crystal Palace Aquarium, iv. 1 14 

 Cuba, i. 183; Havana, 184; the pirate Morgan, iii. 30, 31; 



discovered by Columbus, 290 

 Culloden, i. 8 

 Cumberland, Earl of, as a pirate, i. 291, 295, ii. 16 ; rich prizes, 



292; action with the "Madre de Dios," 293; Scourrje of 



Malice, i. 295 ; voyage with Sir William Morisou, ii. 17, 18 

 "Cumberland" sunk in action with the "Merrimac," i. 20, 



21, 22 

 Cunard steamers : the first, ii. 105, 106 ; " Scotia," "Bothnia," 



109 ; success of the Cunard Company, 110 

 Gushing, Lieutenant : his attack on the " Albemarle," ii. 149 

 Cust, Hon. Sir Edward, D.C.L. : his "Annals of the Wars of 



the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," i. 11, 16 

 Cuttle-fish, Gigantic, i. 31 ; iv. 147 



Dftdalus : Captain McQuhse's account of the sea-serpent, iv. 



186 

 Da Gama, Vasco : the Cape of Good Hope doubled by him, i. 



203; discovery of Natal, i. 211 

 Dahlgren guns on the first "Monitor," i. 23 

 Dampier : on the bread-fruit, i. 238 ; his re-discovery of 



Australia, i. 151 

 Dana's " Seaman's Manual," i. 51 ; "Two Years Before the 



Mast," i. 48, 158 

 Dancing on board ship, iv. 34 

 Danes, Dr. Kane's meeting with, iii. 253 

 Danish ships, i. 263, 265 

 Danites at Utah and Salt Lake City, iv. 25 

 Darien, the Indians of : Lolonois, the pirate, killed by them, 



iii. 28 



Darling, Grace : wreck of the " Forfar shire," iv. 64 

 Darling, Maggie and Jessie : their rescue of sailors in the 



St. Lawrence River, iv. 64 

 Dartmouth, iv. 224 



Dartmouth in Boston Harbour, ii. 6569; tea thrown over- 

 board, 69, 72 



Darwin : on coral reefs, iv. 74, 76 ; on Infusoria, 113 

 D'Avila, Alvares : his defence of Gibraltar, i. 92 

 Dawkius. Captain, of the Vanguard: loss of the ship, i. 



63, 65 



De Veer, Gerrit : map of Nova Zembla, iii. 131 

 Davis, John, the pirate, iii. 16 

 Davis, John : his Arctic explorations, iii. 127, 128 



