GENERAL INDEX. 



Oosnolcl, Captain : first direct voyage to America, ii. 10 



Gosse, P. H. : growth of echiiioderms, iv. 126 ; hermit crabs, 

 154 ; attractions of the sea-shore, 191 ; oil the sea coast, 194; 

 euormous Medusae, 195 ; sea anemones, 196, 198 ; rapid 

 influx of the tide, 197 ; Devonshire coast scenery, 199 ; 

 spinous cockle, 204 



Granada : the Moors in Spain, i. 88, 90 ; at Gibraltar, 94 



Great American Desert, iv. 22 



4 'Great Britain, " ii. 102 



" Great Eastern," i. 13 ; its tonnage, 232 ; contrasted with the 

 Great Harry, 232, 233 ; first and subsequent voyages, ii. 

 134 137; arrival at New York, 136; gale off Cape Clear, 

 128, 137; its history, ib. ; Brunei and Scott Russell, 130; 

 their portraits, 129 ; view and launch of the ship, 130 133 ; 

 laying the Submarine Atlantic Telegraph Cable, iv. 3, 102- 

 110 



Great Fish River, iii. 217 



Great Harry, i. 275, 282; contrasted with the "Great Eastern," 

 233 



Greathead's Life-boats, ii. 209, 210, 211 



"Great Michael," James IV. of Scotland, i. 281 



Great Mogul's ship taken by Avery, the pirate, iii. 60, 61 



" Great Queensland," blown up, ii. 122 



" Great Western " steam-ship, ii. 101, 106 



Grecian ships, i. 261 



Greene, Henry: his mutiny against Hudson, iii. 147; killed 

 by natives of Labrador, 148 



Greenland, iii. 95; its colonisation, 116, 117; James Hall at, 

 143; Henry Hudson at, 146; William Baffin at, 149; ice- 

 bergs, ib.; change in the ice-fields, 162; Sir John Ross at, 

 163; portraits of Esquimaux, 172 ; a snow village, 173, 174 ; 

 view of Whale Sound, 233 ; of Cape Alexander, 249 



Greenwich : Peter the Great and Halley, ii. 40 



Griuuell, H. : American expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 

 214; the "Advance" fitted out by him; Dr. Kane's search 

 for Franklin, 233 ; Dr. Hayes's Arctic expedition in the 

 "United States," iii. 255 



Griper: Arctic voyages, iii. 168, 169, 176 



Grippe, or mistral, i. 107 



Grog, Admiral Veriion (" Old Grog ") : his grogram tunic, 

 i. 51 



Grog on ship -board, i. 44 



" Grosser Kurfiirst," Loss of the, iv. 238 



Grylls, Lieut. R.N., a survivor of the burning of the 

 " Amazon," ii. 282, 287, 288 



Guadaloupe discovered by Columbus, iii. 294 



Guano ships, ii. 122, 123 



Guard ships, i. 44 



Guiana, Raleigh's expeditious to, ii. 8 



Guillemard's " Over Laud and Sea" : Honolulu, Fiji, iv. 47 



Gulf Stream, iv. 91 



Gulf Stream light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands, iv. 245 



Gulf of Georgia, i. 166, 167 



Guns : gunnery of war-ships. (Sec Artillery) 



Guy Fawkes burnt in the Arctic regions, iii. 219 



" Gweuissa " wrecked near Tramore, ii. 258 ; Ronayne's bra- 

 very in saving life, 257 261 



Haddock : " Finnan haddies" ; fishing in Scotland, iv. 175 

 Hakluyt's lines on the British navy, i. 273 ; on the execution 



of Doughtie by Drake for mutiny, 307; defeat of the 



Spanish' Armada, 289 ; slave-trade, 297 ; on early voyages of 



discovery, iii. 119 

 Haliburtou, Judge: erection and histoiy of the town of Halifax, 



i. 199 



Halibut, or Holibut, iv. 175 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, i. 198 : the town, harbour, lighthouses, 



ib. ; history, 199; " Blue Noses, " ib. 

 Hall, Captain Basil, R.N.: " Life in Chili," i. 174 ; electrical 



phenomenon at Cape Horn, 176 ; sharks, iv. 160 

 Hall, Captain C.F.,his Arctic expedition in the "Polaris," iii. 



268 ; his death and fuueral, 268, 269 

 Hall, James : attempt to discover the North-west Passage, iii. 



143, 149 



Halley's diving-bell, iv. 81 

 Hamilton, Bermuda, i. 187, 188 

 Hammerhead, iv. 162 

 Hannay, James, on wasteful expenditure in naval construction, 



i. 47 

 Hauuo's voyage to Africa, i. 259 



"Hansa," Arctic exploring ship, iii. 258, 260; sinking of the 



ship, 261 , 262 ; the crew in a coal-house on an ice-raft, 257, 



260, 263 ; breaking up of the floe, 265 ; eight mouths on the 



ice-raft, 266 



Hardy, Captain, at the Battle of Trafalgar, i. 10 

 Hargreave, E. H.: his discovery of gold in Australia, i. 151, 



153 



Harpa, a univalve shell, iv. 145 

 Harris, Corporal : his diving exploits, iv. 87 

 Hartstene, Captain : his search for and meeting with Dr. 



Kane, iii. 254 



Harvey, Captain, of the Temeraire, at Trafalgar, i. 10 

 Harvey, Captain : his torpedo, ii. 153, 155 

 Harwich, iv. 247, 248 

 Hastings, iv. 236 ; battle of Hastings, II. 

 Havana, i. 184 ; slave labour, 185 

 Hawaian Islands. (See Sandwich Islands.) 

 Hawkins, Sir John : the Spanish Armada, i. 284 ; his ships ; 



capture of slaves, 295301 ; his high-handed trading, 2&7 ; 



coat of arms, 298 ; portrait, 300 ; action at St. Juan de 



Ulloa, 301 

 Hayes, Dr. : his sufferings in Dr. Kane's expedition, iii. 240 f 



241 ; his Arctic expedition in the "United States," iii. 255 

 Hayti discovered by Columbus, iii. 291 ; its early history, 295 

 Heard Island, i. 34 

 Hechi: Arctic voyages, iii., 169, 170 

 Heemskirk, Gibraltar attacked by, i. 92 

 Hegemann, Captain: Arctic expedition of the "Hansa,'' iii. 



257, 259, 267 



Hehaux, Brittany, Lighthouse, ii. 178 

 Hemaus, Mrs. : lines on shipwrecks, ii. 296 ; her "Casabiauca," 



iv. 299. 



Henri Grace de Dieu. (See Great Harry.) 

 Henry V., his fleet, i. 273 



Henry VII. : Acts for regulating the Navy, i. 277 

 Henry VIII. 's navy, i. 232, 273, 282 ; royal navy first estab- 

 lished, 275 ; encouragement of voyages of discovery, iii. 



119, 120; iv. 288 

 Hepburn, a sailor in Richardson's Arctic expedition ; his 



heroism, iii. 189, 193 



Herald sent in search of Franklin, iii. 207, 211 

 Hermit crab, iv. 154, 156 



Hero of the Humber, John Ellerthorpe, iv. 267 

 "Heros," i. 7 

 Herrings and the Herring Fishery, iv. 168171 ; suppored 



cabalistic markings of the herring, 168; mode of curing, 



169 ; fisheries of Yarmouth, Wick, and Holland, ib. ; inex- 

 haustible supplies, 170, 171, 250 

 Hickley, Captain, of the Iron Duke : loss of the Vanguard, 



i. 63 



Hiero's floating palace, i. 260 



Hirst, Robert : his escape from the Captain, i. 5o, t>7 

 Hispaniola discovered by Columbus, iii. 291 

 History of the sea, i. 1. 

 Hoboken, New York, i. 195 

 Hobson, Captain W. R. : " Fox " expedition in search of 



Franklin, iii. 216, 226; his discovery of a record of the 



expedition, 226, 229, 230 

 Hodder, Edwin, " Heroes of Britain in Peace and War," iv. 



267 

 Hogg, James, the Ettrick shepherd ; growth, changes, and 



migration of the salmon, iv. 165, 166 

 Holothuria : trepang fisheries, iv. 127, 128 

 Holyhead Breakwater, ii. 197 

 Holystoning a ship's deck, i. 49 



Home for Disabled and Worn-out Merchant Seamen, Belve- 

 dere, Kent, iv. 273 



Honduras discovered by Columbus, iii. 296 

 Hong Kong, i. 119. (See Victoria.) 

 Honolulu, View and account of, iv. 33, 45, 46 

 Hood, Admiral Lord, i. 4, 6 

 Hood, Captain : Arctic exploration, m. 189, 193 

 Hood, Thomas: his poem, " The Demon Ship," iv. 606 

 Horace : on the Sea, iv. 290, 291 



Here's voyage of discovery encouraged by Henry VIII., 111. 120 

 Horses, Wild, at Tortuga, iii. 7 

 Hotham, Admiral, i. 7 

 Hovellers: at the Goodwin Sands, ii. 199; hovelling r. 



wrecking, 245 ; services of hovellers, ib. ; hovellers associated 



with wreckers, 247 ; dangers of the hoveller's life, 249 ; 



wreck of the " Woolpacket," 251 



