GENEEAL INDEX. 



Hayes in Dr. Kane's expedition, 241 ; a laudanum stew, 

 243 ; snow-houses, 244 ; portrait of Kalutuuah, 245 ; sledges 

 and team of dogs, 1(33, 225 



JEsquiros, Alphouse : on "English Seamen and Divers," i. 42 ; 

 on street arabs, 47 ; on Lloyd's, ii. 12-3 128 ; on the diving- 

 bell, iv. 81, 83 



Etah, Esquimaux at, iii. 251 



Eugenie, Empress of the French, at the inauguration of the 

 Suez Canal, i. 115 



Euplectella (Venus's flower-basket,), i. 30, 32 



Eurydicc trauiiug-ship : lost off the Isle of Wight, iv. 227, 228 



Falconer, James; his poem "The Shipwreck," iv. 297 ; his 



Marine Dictionary, iii. 

 Falkland Islands, i. 176 



Falmouth : its history, iv. 222 ; lighthouse, ib. ; harbour, i. 72 

 Fanner Peck's Inn, Simon's Bay, i. 206 

 Fat : its influence on longevity, iv. 168 

 Faulkner, Captain R., in the Bvllona takes the " Courageux," 



i. 228 

 Fearuey, William, Nelson's bargeman at the battle of St. 



Vincent, i. 8 



Fearon, Colonel: burning of the "Kent," i. 69 

 Female pirates : Mary Read and Anne Boniiey, iii. 67, 68 

 Ferdinand and Isabella : surrender of Gibraltar to, i. 92 ; their 



negotiations with and support of Columbus, iii. 286 ; reception 



of him after his first voyage, 289, 293 ; his second and third 



voyages, 295 ; his arrest and subsequent treatment, 296, 297 ; 



their conduct to Ojcda and Nicuesa, 307 

 Fernandez, Juan : his supposed Antarctic voyage, iii. 276 

 Ferry-boats at New York, i. 196, 197 

 Field, Cyrus W. : his promotion of submarine telegraphy, iv. 



98100 

 Figuier: on sea-monsters, i. 31; f oraminif era, iv. 112; mussels, 



130; oysters, 131; pteropoda, 142 

 Fiji Islands, iv. 47 

 Filey, iv. 252 



Fins of fish as organs of locomotion, iv. 159 

 Fire: The Ship on Fire; burning of the " Amazon, "ii. 256, 



278290 



Fires in Californian forests, i. 166 

 Fire-ships attacking the Spanish Armada, i. 288 

 Fish-life : voices of fish ; Do fish sleep ? iv. 178 

 Fish, Anatomy of, iv. 159 

 Fish-bladder, iv. 159 

 Fish: salmon in British Columbia, i. 164, 168, 170, 171 ; cod in 



Behriug Sea, 170 

 Fish : Dutch fisheries, ii. 23 

 Fisheries of Cornwall, iv. 215, 216 

 Fish at Juan Fernandez, i. 34 

 Fiskemo2s, South Greenland, iii. 164 

 Fitch's improvements in steam vessels, ii. 85, 89 

 Fitzjames, Captain, of the Erebus, iii. 230 

 Flags of the World, Naval, ii. 1 

 Flamborough Head, iv. 251 

 Floating ice, iii. 125, 1 30 

 Floating light- ships, iv. 244 

 Flogging in the Navy, i. 51 -53 

 Flying-fish, i. 80; iv. 162, 164 

 Fogs : loss of the Vanguard, i. 6367 

 Fog in the Polar regions, iii. Ill, 166, 182, 183, 259 

 Fog-horns, or Siren signals, iv. 280 

 Foraminifera, iv. Ill 

 Forecastle pest-houses, ii. 121 

 Forest, Submerged, iv. 199 

 "Forfarshire," Wreck of the, iv. 64 

 Fortifications of Cherbourg, ii. 189; of Portland, 195 

 Fort Enterprise, Franklin at, iii. 188, 190, 193 

 Forts and ships of war at Sebastopol, i. 14, 15 

 Fossil ivory, iii. 162 

 "Fougueux" taken at Trafalgar, i. 11 

 "Fox 'I : the search for Franklin, iii. 215 



relics found by Dr. Rae, 215 ; other relics, 227, 229, 231 

 Franklin, Lady : her advocacy and support of Polar explora- 

 tion, iii. 92, 93, 98 : search for Sir John Franklin, 207, 215, 222 

 Franz Josef Laud, discovered by Lieutenant Payer, iii. 272 

 Frederick William, Emperor of Germany : Arctic expedition of 

 the "Germauia" and "Hansa," iii. 259 



Free-board of the Captain, i. 54. 



Free Town, Sierra Leone, i. 202, 204 



Freezing, The sleepy comfort of: Dr. Kane's experience, iii. 



237 



French ironclads, i. 83 

 French sailors, i. 226 

 Frobisher, Sir Martin : the Spanish Armada, i. 284, 287 ; his 



voyages of discovery, iii. 123, 124, 126; portrait, 12S 

 Frobisher's Strait, iii. 146 

 Frost-bite, iii. 171 



Fruit at Shanghai, i. 123 ; in South Australia, 154 

 Fulton, Robert : steam navigation, ii. 87 95 ; submarine 



boat, 88; " Clermout, " 93 ; portrait, 95; his torpedoes and 



torpedo boat, ii. 149, 153 

 Funeral at sea, ii. 153 



Fur- sealing: Alaska and San Francisco, i. 170, 171 

 Fury: Arctic voyage, iii. 172, 176 

 Fusaro, Lake: its oysters, iv. 136 



Galatea, Cruise of the, i. 205 



" Gallia," Atlantic steamer, iv. 3 



" Gamo," Spanish frigate, taken by Admiral Cochrane, i. 219 



Gaun, John : his diving apparatus, iv. 87 



Garry Island : Franklin's flag unfurled, iii. 194 



Gasparin Madame de ; her reminiscences of a thunderstorm, 



iv. 193 



Gasteropoda, iv. 139 

 Gems in Ceylon, i. 119 



George II. 's navy, i. 232 : laws against wrecking, ii. 237 

 George IV. ; Lukin's life-boat, ii. 210 

 Georgia, Gulf of, i. 166, 167 



Gericault's painting of the raft of the " Medusa," i. 81, 82 

 German Arctic expeditions, iii. 258 

 " Geiinauia," Arctic exploring ship, iii. 258, 267 

 Gerritz, Dirk, discovery of Southern Polar laud, iii. 277, 278 

 Gibraltar, Siege of : red-hot shot, i. 16, 17, 18 ; view from the 

 mainland, 65 ; Browning's lines on the Straits, 87 ; history 

 of the rock, 88 ; sieges, ib. ; view of the Neutral Ground, 89 ; 

 Stephens's "History of the Place and its Sieges, "90; first taken 

 by England, 93, 94 ; Moorish tower, 93 ; Spanish attempts 

 to regain the place, 94, 95 ; Sayer's " History of Gibraltar," 

 95, 96 ; the great siege, ib. ; the rock described, 96 ; mon- 

 keys, 97 ; Morgan's attack on, iii. 33, 39 

 Gibraltar, a town in Venezuela, iii. 20; taken by pirates, 21, 



22, 23, 25 



Gilbert, W. S. : his operettas, iv. 303 



Gilbert, Sir Humphrey : colonisation and trade with America, 

 i. 315 ; Queen Elizabeth's patronage and present, 315, 316; 

 voyage to Newfoundland, 316 ; possession taken, 318 ; 

 Gilbert's fate, 317, 319 ; his advocacy of the discovery of the 

 North-west Passage, iii. 123, 126 

 Gilmore, Rev. W. : "Storm Warriors: or, Lifeboat Work," 



ii. 217 ; hovellers and wreckers, ii. 245, 247, 253 

 Girvan, Private, a diver: his submarine combat with Cor- 

 poral Jones, iv. 88 

 Glaciers, iii. 155, 166 

 Globe-fish, iv. 162, 164 

 Globigerina, from the Atlantic, i. 32 

 Gloucester, Commodore Ausou's ship, ii. 46, 50, 56, 57 

 Goats in Malta, i. 99 

 Goat Island, San Francisco, i. 157 

 Goggles worn in Arctic exploration, iii. 110 

 Going aloft, i. 97 



Gold: in Australia, discovered by Hargreaves, i. 151; iv. 55; 

 in Calif omia, i. 158 ; miners' vicissitudes, 164 ; Cariboo 

 mines, British Columbia, i. 163, 164 ; search for El Dorado, 

 ii. 4, 6; Frobisher's voyage in search of, iii. 125, 126; 

 voyages of Columbus, iii. 291, 293, 294, 295; of Ojeda, 

 Nino, and De Bastides, 303, 306 ; taken from Indians by 

 Nicuesa, 311 ; by Euisco, 314 

 Gold-washing, Ancient, at St. Domingo, iii. 293 

 Golden State and City. (8cc California, San Francisco.) 

 Golden Hindc : Drake's circumnavigating ship, i. 308-314 ; Sir 



Humphrey Gilbert's expedition, 318 



Goodwin Sands and Life-boats, ii. 198, 215; wreck of the 

 "Samaritano," 217223; "Violet," 224; "Fusileer," ib.; 

 Portuguese brig, 225; other wrecks, 229, 230; loss of the 

 "Effort," 247 ; "Albion" lugger-hovelling: the lugger lost, 

 248, 249; the sands described, ib.; map, at low water, 252; 

 rescue of "La Marguerite," 253; the Sands mentioned by 

 Shakespeare, iv. 294 



