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GENEEAL INDEX. 



;Men of Peace : naval life iii peace times : the cruise of the 

 Challenger, i. 28 



.Men of the Sea : how boys become sailors ; Amyas Leigh ; 

 training ships ; old guard ships ; routine and work 011 board ; 

 " watches " and " bells ; " grog ; the cat, i. 4254 



JVIen of War : The Victory, i. 4 ; Siege of Toulon, G ; Battle of 

 St. Vincent, 79; Nelson's bridge, 8; Trafalgar, 1013; 

 iron and wooden ships, 9, 13 ; Crimean War, 15 : Bombard- 

 ment of Sebastopol, 14, 15 ; red-hot shot and Gibraltar, 16, 

 18; Ironclads, 13, 14; the Warrior and "La Gloire," 18; 

 the "Merrimac," its history, 19; the "Cumberland" sunk, 

 20,21,22; the " Congress " burned, ib. ; the first "Monitor," 

 its engagement with the "Merrimac," 23, 24, 25; the 

 "Shah" and "Huascar" engagement, 26; the "Vesta" 

 (Eussiau) and the " Assari Tef vik " (Turkish) ships, action 

 between them, 27 ; instruction on board, 49 ; officer's life 

 on board, 214 ; ward-room, captain's cabin, 215 ; between 

 decks in the eighteenth century, 217; doctors, 220; officers 

 and seamen of the eighteenth century, 221 ; chaplains, 222 ; 

 engineers, 224 ; American, English, and French sailors, 226 ; 

 ceremonies on " crossing the line," 229 ; ward- room, meals 

 and music, 231 ; mess and wine-caterers, ib. ; present force 

 of the Navy, ib. ; cost of ironclads, 231 ; history of the Navy, 

 232 ; naval volunteers, 232 ; rapid firing, ib. ; artillery 

 volunteers, 233 ; drills, 234 ; Eoyal Naval Reserve, 234 ; 

 pursers, their dishonesty, mutiny of the Nore, 250 (*cc 

 Mutinies and) ; Eound the World on a Mau-of-War, 87 



Meuzaleh, Lake: on the Suez Canal, catching pelicans, i. 112, 

 116 



Mermaids, iii. 146 



" Merrimac: " its work of destruction in Hampton Eoads, i. 

 20 22 ; engagement with the " Monitor," 23 25 ; its history, 

 18; ii. 139 



"" Miautoiioma : " monitor steamer, ii. 139,140; its circum- 

 navigation of the world, 142 



Michelet : his references to the sea, i. 2 ; iv. 290 ; Infusoria, 

 iv. 112; Medusa, 117; Echiiioderms, 126; Cephalopoda, 

 cuttle-fish, octopus, 143 



Microscope : " the sixth sense of man," iv. 112 



Middletou, Sir Henry : East India trade, ii. 13 



Midshipmen, i. 47 



Miller, Patrick : propulsion of ships by steam, ii. 81 83 



Milne, Admiral : his report on the loss of the Captain, i. 59 



Millie-Edwards, Dr. : his diving apparatus, iv. 113 



Milner, Eev. John : Duke of Edinburgh's visit to the Cape, i. 

 205 



Milton : his reference to the sea, i. 2 ; iv. 290 



Mindry, Eobert : his" Chips from the Log of an Old Salt," i. 44 



Mines of Cornwall, iv. 215 



Minion, Sir John Hawkins's ship, i. 299 



"Minnesota," i. 20, 24 



Mirage in the Straits of Fuca, i. 163 



Mississippi scheme, ii. 42 



Missou, Captain : the pirate, iii. 64 67 



Missouri river, iv. 16 



Mistral, or Grippe, i. 107 



Mocha, i. 117 



Mocha fleet attacked by Captain Kidd, iii. 56 



Mock suns (parahelia), iii. 132, 150, 152 



Mock moons, iii. 221 



Molluscs : phosphorescence of the sea produced by, iv. 97 



Monitors : the first engagement with the " Merrimac," i. 22 

 26; a "dummy" monitor, ii. 138; the first "Monitor," 139 



Monkeys : at Gibraltar, i. 88, 97 ; in Trinidad, 182 ; eaten at 

 Singapore, 150 



Mousou, Sir William: his "Naval Tracts," his daring deeds, 

 ii. 15 ; his captivity, 17 ; at the Siege of Cadiz, ib. ; destruc- 

 tion of the Spanish fleet, 18 ; action at Cerimbra Eoads, 19, 

 21 ; on Dutch fisheries, 23 ; expedition against pirates, 24 ; 

 adventure at Broad Haven, 25 



Monsoon, i. 129 ; iv. 95 



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



Moon, the. (Sec Mock Moons.) 



Moore, Captain : search for Franklin in the Plover, iii. 207, 211 



Moore, Lieutenant : his swim across the Hellespont, iv. 258 



Moore, Frank : his " Eebellion Eecord; " the "Merrimac ; " 

 and the "Monitor," i. 19 



Moors in Spain, i. 88, 90, 93, 94 



Morgan, Captain Henry : the pirate, iii. 29 51 ; portrait, 41 



Mormondom ; town of Echo, Utah, Salt Lake City, iv. 23 



" Morning Star " chased by De Soto the pirate, iii. 80 



Morrison, E. J., E.N. : loss of the " Eothsay Castle," ii. 298 

 Morton's sledge journey : iu Dr. Kane's expedition, iii. 239 ; the 



open sea discovered, 239, 211 ; with Captain Hull in the 



"Polaris," iii. 268 

 Mounts Erebus and Terror, iii. 280 

 Mount St. Elias, Alaska, i. 170 



Mount's Bay and Mount St. Michael, Cornwall, iv. 223 

 Miiller, S. : his " Life of Vitus Behriug," iii. 160 

 Muudy, Colonel : on Sydney, Australia, i. 154 

 Mimk, Jens : his Arctic voyage, iii. 150 

 Murchison, Sir Eoderick J. : his advocacy of Polar exploration 



iii. 92 



Murex, a univalve shell, iv. 144 



" Murillo," the "Northfleet" wrecked by her, ii. 263 267 

 Murphy, J. M. : American railways, iv. 18; salmon of American 



rivers, 166 

 Murray, Mrs. William, shipwrecked ; "Ten Terrible Days," 



iv. 56 



Musquitoes, i. 222 

 Mussels, iv. 129, 132. 

 Mutiny: on the raft of the " Medusa," i. 79: at Portsmouth, 225 ; 



of the Nore, 249; the "Lenuie" mutineers, 235; of the 



Bounty, 235 249 ; the crew at Otaheite, 236 ; mutineers 



seizing Captain Bligh, 237 ; Bligh cast adrift, 240 ; on the 



Waycr, ii. 52. 



Nagasaki, i. 129 



Nauaimo, Vancouver Island, i. 168 



Napoleon I. at St. Helena, i. 212 



Napoleon III. : introduction of ironclad war ships, i. 18 



"Napoleon," steam screw, constructed by Dupuy Delorme, 

 i. 226 



Nares, Sir George S. : cruise of the Challenger, i. 29 ; cairns 

 erected by him, iii. 97, 99 ; expedition of the Alert and Dis- 

 I'um-i/, 99 114 ; portrait, iii. 85 



Natal, i. 211 



Nauktim, a native of Plover Bay, i. 138 



Nautilus, iv. 143, 149 



Naval architecture, History of, i. 258 



Naval cadets, Training of, i. 47 



Naval flags of the world, ii. 1 



Naval service : officer's life on board, i. 214 



Navigation Act passed by Cromwell, ii. 30 



Navy office established by Henry VIII., i. 282 



Negrelli, M. de : his co-operation \\ith M. de Lesseps in the 

 Suez Canal, i. Ill 



Negroes in the West Indies, i. 183, 185, 188 



Nelson, Lord : his glorious career, i. 7, 9, 10; as a model com- 

 mander ; Trafalgar, 227 ; career and anecdotes of, ii. 71; his 

 encounter with the bear, 73 ; Calvi and Bastia, loss of his 

 eye, ib. ; Battle of the Nile, burning of "L' Orient," 74; 

 coffin presented to him, ib. ; rewards, 75, 77 ; Battle of Co- 

 penhagen, 65, 75 ; portrait, 76 ; his body taken to Gibraltar, 

 i. 96 



Nelson's bridge at the battle of St. Vincent, i. 8 



Nevada, Silver mines at, iv. 26 



" New Albion," California so named by Drake, i. 312 



Newfoundland : possession taken by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, i. 

 318 ; Captain Eoberts the pirate at, iii. 63 



Newhaven, iv. 231 



"New Holland," early name for West Australia, i._151 



New South Wales, so named by Captain Cook, i. 152_ 



Newspapers in America, iv. 27 ; in Arctic ships, iii. 170 



New York, i. 195198; map of the harbour, 195; Brooklyn 

 Bridge, 196 ; the Broadway, 197 ; ferry-boats, ib. ; climate, 

 198 ; view of New York Bay, iv. 12 



New York to Chicago by rail, iv. 14 



New Zealand : Auckland, North, Middle, and Stewart's 

 Islands, iv. 48 ; gold-fields, 50 ; war with the Maories, 51 



Niagara, iv. 14 ; the first submarine Atlantic telegraph cable, 

 101, 102 



Nicaragua : Lolouois the pirate at, iii. 28 



Nicuesa, Diego de : his expedition to America, iii. 30" ; his 

 release from his creditors, 309; quarrel with Ojeda, 311; 

 fight with Indians, ib. 



Nino's voyage i~> America, iii. 303 



Noah's ark, i. 258 ; iv. 56 



Noddies and boobies taken by Bligh : mutiny of the Bounty, 

 i. 243, 244 



Noel, Commander E.N. : on torpedoes, ii. 152 



