GENERAL INDEX. 



309 



Davy, Sir Humphry : fecundity of the salmon, iv. 164 



Davy Jones's Locker and its Treasures : pearls, corals, sponges, 



diving, iv. 66 90 

 " Dead-heads " on American railways, iv. 26 



Deal: view on the coast; life-boats, ii. 229, 232 



Deal, iv. 242 ; life-boat, ib. 



Deal hovellers, ii. 247, 248 



Decisive voyages in history : Diaz, Columbus, Vasco da Gama, 

 companions and followers of Columbus ; Captain Cook, iii. 

 281 



Deep-sea soundings : cruise of the Challenger, i. 28, 30 ; the 

 accumulator and other apparatus, 29, 30, 35 



" Defensor de Pedro," the ship of De Soto, the pirate, iii. 79 



Defoe's " Robinson Crusoe : " the island of Juan Fernandez, 

 i. 33. 



De Gusman : Gibraltar besieged by him, i. 91, 92 



Delorme, Dupuy : " Napoleon " constructed by, i. 226 



Deptford : old Deptford dockyard, i. 280 ; ii. 37 ; Peter the 

 Great, 38 ; Saye's Court, 39 



De Quiros, Pedro Fernandez : discovery of the New Hebrides, 

 i. 151 ; his discoveries in the southern hemisphere, iii. 277 



De Ruyter, Admiral, on the Medway, ii. 31 



Desertion : from the navy ; mutiny of the Bounty, i. 235, 239; 

 mutiny of the Nore, 254 ; the Wager, ii. 53 



Desolation Island, iii. 279 



De Soto Benito, the pirate : his cruelty, iii. 7884 ; executed, 83 



"Deutschland," Wreck of the, ii. 114, 273 



De Veer : narrative of Barents' s voyage of discovery, iii. 134, 

 138 



Devil-fish, iv. 146 



Devil's Frying-pan, Cornwall, iv. 225 



Devonshire coast scenery, iv. 199 



Devonshire boys on training-ships, i. 46 



Diamond fields of South Africa, i. 210 



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



Diaz, Bartholomew de : his discovery of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, i. 203 ; iii. 282, 284 ; sea passage from Portugal to 

 India, iii. 281 



Dibdiu, Charles, and his two sons ; their sea-songs, iv. 298 



Dickens, Charles : his first trip to America, iv. 3 12 



Dip of the magnetic needle, iii. 187 



Discipline, Value of; the Tanr/itftnl, i. 65; "Kent," East 

 Indiamau, 64, 68, 69, 71, 74; wreck of the Alceste, i. 82, 83 ; 

 loss of the "Birkeuhead," i. 74, 75; want of discipline in 

 the wreck of the "Medusa," i. 7582 



Disco, Alert and Discover >/ at, iii. 92, 93 ; " Pandora " at, iii. 

 95 ; entrance to music-hall, 96 



Discovery, Henry Hudson's ship, iii. 146 



Discovery, Captain Cook's ship, iii. 155, 318 



Discovery : departure from Portsmouth with the Alert, iii. 84 ; 

 narrative of the expedition, 99 114 



Divers at work, iv. 85 



Divers attacked by a sword-fish, iv. 84 



Diving for pearls, iv. 69 



Diving for wreckage : the diving-bell, iv. 79 



Diving dress, iv. 86. (See Swimming.) 



DoWs Galley : its expedition to the Arctic regions, iii. 154. 



Dogs in M'Clintock's Arctic expedition, iii. 219, 225 



Dogs, Edible, iii. 220 



Dogs, Wild, at Tortuga, iii. 7 



Dog-fish, iv. 162, 164, 262 



Dominica, i. 187 



Dorothea in the ice, iii. 165, 166, 167 



Doughtie, Master, executed by Drake for mutiny, i. 307 



Douglas Pines of British Columbia used for canoes, i. 167 



Dover, iv. 239, 240 



Drake, Sir Francis : the Spanish Armada, i. 284, 286, 288 ; 

 his first view of the Pacific, 289, 302 ; his ships, Judith, 

 Pascha, Swan ; his attack on Nombre de Dios, 302 ; at 

 the Isthmus of Panama, 303 ; passes the Straits of Magellan, 

 305 ; his circumnavigation of the globe, ib. ; natives of Seal 

 Bay, 306; execution of a mutineer, 307; his ship, the 

 Golden Hinde, 308; portrait, 309; treasure ship, "Caca- 

 fuego" taken by him, 311 ; arrival at Ternate, 312 ; at San 

 Francisco, ib. ; at Celebes, 313 ; death, funeral, and charac- 

 ter, 314 



Drake taken by Paul Jones, iii. 75 



Draper, Rev. Mr., lost in the "London," ii. 294 



Dreadnmtf/ht, i. 5. 



Dreadnought, hospital ship, ii. 120 ; iv. 285 



Dredges at work on the Suez Canal, i. 112, 113 



Dredging in the deep sea, i. 30, 31. 



Dredging instruments on board the Challenger, i. 38 



Drinkwater's "Siege of Gibraltar," i. 16, 91, 97 



Drowning. (See Swimming.) 



Duel of English and French ships, i. 271 



Duncan, Admiral, addressing his crew on the Venerable, 



mutiny of the Nore, i. 253 

 Dundas, Lord : Symington's steam vessel, " Charlotte Duudas," 



ii. 84 



Dundouald, Earl of : his " Autobiography of a Seaman," i. 216 

 Dunmore, Lord : life saved by him from shipwreck, iv. 243 

 D'Urville, Admiral : discovery of South Polar Land, iii. 279 

 D'Urville, Dumont : Trepang fishery at Raffles' Bay, iv. 127 

 Dust falling at Shanghai, i. 125 

 Dutch East India Company, ii. 13 

 Dutch fisheries, ii. 23 

 Dutch naval war, ii. 30 ; Martin Tromp, ib. ; Admiral Van 



Tromp, 31 



Dutch shipping and English compared by Raleigh, ii. 10 

 Dutch voyages of discovery, iii. 1 29 

 Dyke Sand : the Goodwins, ii. 255 

 Dynamite, its explosive power, ii. 152 



"Earl of Balcarras," East ludiamau, ii. 15 



Earthquakes: at Shanghai, i. 123; California, 162; West 

 Indies, 186 



Eastbourne, iv. 235 



East India Company ; its history, ii. 1 1 



East India Station, i. 119 



Echinoderms, iv. 126 



Edinburgh, His Royal Highness the Duke of : the Galatea at 

 the Cape, i. 205, 209 



Edward III. : his fleet, i. 271, 272 



Edwards, Captain Edward : expedition of the Pandora to 

 find the mutineers of the Bounty, i. 244 246 



Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 156 ; i'ts history, 159 ; Winstauley's 

 lighthouse, ib. ; Rudyerd's, 161163; Smeatou's, 164171; 

 views of former and present lighthouses, 160, 161, 168; in- 

 terior of the light chamber, 171 ; portrait of Smeatou, 170 

 "Effort" on the Goodwin Sands, ii. 247 



Egerton, Sub-lieutenant, in Arctic exploration, iii. 105, 106 



Egyptian galleys, i. 259 



Eider ducks and their eggs, iii. 167, 251, 252 



El Dorado, The search for, ii. 4 



Electrical phenomenon at Cape Horn, i. 176 



Electricity employed to remove the Royal George, i. 62 



Ekenhead, Lieutenant : his swim with Byron across the Helles- 

 pont, iv. 257 



Electric light for lighthouses, ii. 187 



Elephant-hunting in South Africa, i. 208 



Elizabeth, Queen : her navy, i. 232, 282 ; the Spanish Armada, 

 283 291 ; Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, 314 ; her 

 patronage of Gilbert and Raleigh ; present to Gilbert, 316 ; 

 encouragement of Frobisher, iii. 123, 124 



Elliott, General : his defence of Gibraltar, i. 16 18 



El Puerto del Santa Maria, Cuba : taken by the pirate Morgan, 

 iii. 30 



" Ely " : rescue of the " Woolpacket," Bideford Bay, ii. 251, 

 2o2 



Emigration of Chinese to California, i. 162 



Emigration : to Australia, i. 154 ; Cape of Good Hope, 210 ; 

 America, ii. 62, 69 ; Melbourne, iv. 54, 55 



Engineers on board ship, i. 224 226 ; engine room of the 

 Warrior, 225 ; rank and pay of engineers, ib. 



English sailors, i. 226 



Enisco, M. F. de : his generosity to Nicuesa, iii. 309 ; his 

 expeditions, capture of gold, iii. 314 



Enterprise : search for Franklin, iii. 211, 214 



Erebus, Franklin's ship in his last voyage, iii. 207 



Erebus and Terror among the icebergs, iii. 193; discovery of 

 relics, 227 



Ericsson, Captain John : his battery m the first " Monitor," i. 

 23 ; portrait, ii. 97 ; introduction of the screw-propeller, 102 



Espinosa, Spanish admiral : his letter to the pirate Morgan, 

 iii. 39 



Esquemeling, Joseph, a bucauier : his account of them, iii. 3, 6 



Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, i. 163, 165 



Esquimaux, The, iii. 117; described by Frobisher, 123 ; por- 

 traits, 172 ; snow village, 173, 174 ; Franklin's fight with 

 Esquimaux, 195 ; kaiyacks and boat, 196 ; Dr. Kane at 

 Etah, 238, 251 ; relics of Franklin, 225 ; plot against Dr. 



