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GENERAL INDEX. 



Howard of Effingham, Lord : defeat of the Spanish Armada, i. 234 

 Howe, Admiral Lord : mutiny at Spithead, i. 250, 251 

 " Huascar " and " Shah " : action between them, i. 26 

 Hubuer, Baron : the passage from San Francisco to Japan, iv. 



35 37 ; Yokohama, 40 

 Hudson, Henry: his Polar voyages, iii. 144, 146; mutiny, cast 



adrift and lost, 147, 148 ; Hudson River, Bay and Strait, iii. 



144, 146 



Hudson River, i. 195 ; iii. 144 ; its discovery, 146 

 Hudson's Bay Company and the Califomiaii currency, i. 165, 



167 ; iii. 151, 154 ; the search for Franklin, 207 

 Huer, or watcher, in pilchard fishing, iv. 173 

 Hull, E. W. : his device for saving life at the wreck of the 



"Killarney," ii. 315 



Hummocks in the Polar Seas, iii. 97, 137, 181 

 Hunt, Mr. Ward : on the loss of the Vanguard, i. 67 

 Hurricanes, iv. 95 

 Hydrozoa, iv. 115 

 Hyeres, naval fight off, i. 7 



Ice in the Polar Seas, iii. 99114, 125, 133; formation of 

 "young ice," 172; old and young ice, 172, 182, 200, 260; 

 "the edge of the pack," 180; cutting ice docks, 208; ice 

 mountains, 209 ; . hummocks, 181 ; Back's account of the 

 growth of ice, 200 



Ice and snow on American railways, iv. 21, 28 



Ice. (See Antarctic ice.) 



Icebergs, i. 35 ; iii. 149, 155, 162, 166. 170, 197, 201, 218, 264, 

 265, 277; an iceberg breaking up, iii. 129, 133; narrow 

 escape of Dr. Kane in the " Advance," iii. 234 



Icelandic explorers of the Arctic regions, iii. 16 



Ice Point and Ice Haven, Nova Zembla, iii. 139, 142 



" Impe'ratrice : " chest of gold recovered by divers, iv. 86 



Inaccessible Island : rescue of two voluntary Crusoes, i. 39 



Ince, Henry: the sea serpent, iv. 185 



Inchcape Rock : bell signal, ii. 173; lighthouse, 173 176 



Indiana, iv. 14 



Inflexible, turret ship : its cost, i. 231 ; ii. 144 



Infusoria: their propagation, iv. 113 



Ingram : his escape from the Roiial George, i. 61 



Inman line of steam-ships, ii. Ill 



" Inverness," plundered by wreckers, ii. 241, 244 



Investigator: search for Franklin, iii. 211 213; the ship 

 abandoned, 214 



Ipswich, iv. 247 



Irish moss or Carrageen, iv. 202 



Iron and wooden ships, i. 9, 13, 84, 138146 



Ironclad war ships", i. 13, 14, 18, 19, 26, 27, 54 ; their cost, 59, 

 66, 83, 231 ; ii. 148 ; Iron Duke and Vanguard, i. 6366 ; 

 circular ironclads, ii. 148 ; rams, 155 ; turret ships. (See 

 Monitors.) 



Iron steamers introduced, ii. 99, 102 



Iron Duke : loss of the Vanguard, i. 63 66 



Irons's " Settler's Guide to the Cape of Good Hope," i. 210 



Isabella of Spain : Gibraltar surrendered to, i. 92. (See Fer- 

 dinand and Isabella.) 



Island of Desolation, iii. 279 



Islands of the Pacific : Map, i. 245 



Isle of Wight, iv. 227 



Isma'ilia, on the line of the Suez Canal, i. 110, 114 



Isthmus of Panama, Drake at the, i. 303 



Ivigtut: visit of the " Pandora," iii. 95 



Ivory, fossil, iii. 162 



Jamaica : views in, i. 180, 181 ; Kingston town and harbour, 

 183 ; sugar plantations, 183 ; Blue Mountain Peak, ib. ; 

 treasure taken by the pirate Morgan sent there, iii. 50 ; 

 the island discovered by Columbus, 94 



James II. 's Navy, i. 232 ; ii. 22 



James, Sir Henry : on the loss of the Vanguard, i. 67 



James Town, St. Helena, i. 212 



Japan: i. 127131; customs and costumes, 130; election and 

 revenue of the Tycoon, ib. ; Fusiyama Mountain, 129, 131 ; 

 a tea mart, 133 ; Yokohama, iv. 40 ; a Japanese dinner, 42 



Java, i. 144 



Jelly-fish, iv. 116, 147 



Jennings, Captain Henry : a bucanier, iii. 3 



Jersey City, New York, i. 195 



Jervis, Sir John : battle of St. Vincent, i. 7, 9 



Jessop, Josias : Smeaton's assistant at the Eddystone Light- 

 house, ii. 165, 166 



" Jesus : " Sir John Hawkins' ship ; the slave trade, i. 239 



Jiddah, i. 117 ; view from the sea, ib. 



John, King : his fleet, i. 271 



John, King of Portugal : his patronage of Bartholomew Diaz. 



iii. 281 

 Johns, Rev. C. A.: "The Loss of the Amazon," ii. 278, 'Jss ; 



smuggling on the Cornish coast, iv. 210 ; search for treasure 



trove, 222 



Johnson, Dr. : on the perils of the sea, i. 42 

 Jones, Lance-corporal : his diving exploits, iv. 88 

 Jones, Paul, the privateer, iii. 71 78 ; portrait, 77 

 Juan Fernandez : Robinson Crusoe's island, i. 33, 36 ; ii. 50 

 " Judith," Sir John Hawkins's ship, i. 299, 302 

 Junks, Chinese, i. 147 149 



Kalosh Indians in Alaska, i. 169, 170 

 Kalutuuah, an Esquimaux, iii. 242 ; portrait, 245 

 Kamchatka, Kamtschatka: i. 131,135,137; orthography of 



the word, iii. 160; Russian expedition to, 160, 162 

 Kanakas, as sailors, i. 43 

 Kane, Dr. : his expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 230 254 ; 



portrait, 236 

 Kangaroos, i. 151 

 "Keels " on the Tyne, i. 263 

 Kellett, Captain : search for Franklin in the Herald, 207, 



211 ; " Fox " expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 216 

 Kempenf elt, Admiral : lost in the Royal George, i. 60 

 "Kent," East Indiaman, burning of the, i. 64 74 

 Kentish Knock Light-ship, ii. 273, 274 

 Kerguelen's discoveries in the Southern hemisphere, iii. 2~7 

 Kerguelen's Land, i. 34 - 

 Kidd, Captain Robert, the pirate, iii. 56 59 ; his trial and 



execution, 58, 59 

 "Killarney," Wreck of the, ii. 304 317; rescue of survivors, 



316 



King, Governor : his description of Australia, i. 153 

 King crabs, iv. 152 



Kingman, Captain : phosphorescence of the sea, iv. 97 

 Kingsley, Charles : on sailors ; Amyas Leigh, i. 43 ; Trinidad, 



Jamaica, Havana, 180, 182, 185, 186; his " Three Fishers," 



iv. 299 

 Kingston Harbour, Jamaica, i. 181, 183; the Palisades; Port 



Royal ; town of Kingston, i. 183 

 Kitchiner, Dr. , on oysters, iv. 133 

 Knight, John : attempt to discover the north-west passage, 



iii. 143 ; remnants of his expedition, 145, 153 

 Knights of St. John of Malta, i. 98, 99, 101, 103 

 Knights Templars, i. 101 

 Knock Sands, ii. 254 

 Knowles, Captain, lost in the "Northfleet" : his bravery, ii. 



263267 



Knysiia, Cape of Good Hope, i. 208, 209 

 Koldewey, Captain: Arctic expeditions ; the "Germania" and 



"Hansa," iii. 259 



Kondylostoma patens, a microscopic infusorian, iv. 113 

 Kraken : sea-serpent, iv. 149. (See Sea-serpent.) 



La Cosa, Juan de : his expeditions to America, iii. 303, 304, 

 307, 308, 309, 310 ; his character and death, 309, 310, 311 



Lacquer- work in Japan, iv. 40 



" Lady Franklin " : the search for Franklin, iii. 207 



La Hogue, battle of, ii. 32 



Lake Menzaleh, on the Suez Canal ; catching pelicans, i. 112, 

 116 



" La Marguerite," on the Goodwin Sands, ii. 253 



Lambert, James, a blind native of Calton, a suburb of Glas- 

 gow : his heroism in saving life from drowning, iv. 268 



Land crabs, iv. 152, 153 



Land's End, iv. 207 



Lapland, Dutch Expedition to, iii. 142 



La Perouse : his monument in Petropaulovski, i. 132 



Lardner, Dr. : steam navigation, ii. 106 



Lascars, as sailors, i. 43 



Las Casas : his account of Spaniards in America, iii. 312, 

 313 



Laube, Dr. : Arctic voyage of the "Hansa," iii. 259, 263 



Laudanum stew given to treacherous Esquimaux, iii. 243 



La Valette : his defence of Malta, i. 102 



Lay's torpedo, ii. 151, 153 



Leake, Sir John : his defence of Gibraltar, i. 94 



Leeuw, Hanuequin, the pirate, i. 275 





