GENEEAL INDEX. 



315 



Nombre do Dios, attacked by Drake, i. 302 



Nordeuskjijld, Professor : disco very of the north -east passage 

 iii. 159 ; his Swedish Arctic expeditious, 2.37 ; his six Arctic 

 voyages, 274 ; accomplishment of the north-east passage, 

 ib.; the "Vega," ib. 



Nore, mutiny of the, i. 2i9, 251256 



Norfolk : sketches of the sea coast, iv. 247 251 



Norman ships, i. 266, 268 



North American naval station, i. 198 



North Cape, iii. 169 



North -east passage: early voyages for discovering the, iii. 115 

 123, 129, 151 ; the passage made by Professor Nordenskjold, 

 274 ; north-eastern voyages of the Dutch, 129 



"Northfleet," wreck of the, ii. 260, 263267 



North polar regions, map, iii. 89 



North Pole : expeditions to approach it, iii. 87 ; projected 

 passage over the Pole, 144, 151 



North Star, search for Franklin, iii. 213 



North-west passage, iii. 142, 1-13 ; reward offered by Govern- 

 ment for its discovery, 154, 155 ; Sir John Ross's expedition, 

 163, 205 ; discovered by Sir John Franklin, 206 ; found by 

 Maclure, 212 



Northumberland, Duke of : his interest in the Lifeboat, ii 

 211 ; his prizes, 213 



Northumberland, Napoleon I. on board the, i. 213 



Norwegians, Arctic voyages of the Vikings, iii. 115, 116 



Norwegian ships, ancient, i. 90 



Norwegian ships, sanitary arrangements, ii. 120 



"Novara" (Austrian frigate), deep-sea soundings, i. 28 



Nova Zembla, Gen-it de Veer's Map, iii. 131 ; Barents at, 133, 

 137; Henry Hudson at, 146 



Oar-\veed, iv. 200 



Ocean, the, its Living Wonders, iv. Ill 158. (Sec Atlantic 



and Pacific.) 



Ocean, Lord Colliugwood's ship, in a storm, i. 105 

 Octopus, iv. 148 



Officer's life on board a man-of-war, i. 214 

 Officers of East Iiidiameu, their privileges, ii. 14 

 Ojeda, Alouzo de, afollowerof Columbus: voyages to America, 



iii. 301, 304 ; imprisoned by Ocampo, 306 ; his escape, 305, 



306; another voyage, 309; fight with Indians, 310, 311; 



quarrel with Nicuesa, ib. ; wounded by Indians, 312 ; 



his strange adventures and death, 312, 313, 314 

 Old and young ice. (ticc Ice.) 



Ommauey, Capt., search for Franklin in the Assistance, iii. 207 

 Onions in Bermuda, i. 190 

 Opium-eating and smoking, iv. 38 

 Orellana, Don Josef Pizarro attacked by him, ii. 48 

 " Orient," steam-ship, iv. 3 



208, 210 



Ostrich farming in South Africa, i. 210 

 Otaheite, the crew of the Jioioihj at, i. 236, 238 

 Ounimak Pass, Aleutian Islands, i. 171 



Owen, Professor R., F.R.S., on the Sea-serpent, iv. 187, 188 

 Oxeuham, John, his connection with Drake, i. 303 ; his 



embarkation on the Pacific Ocean, 304 ; executed at Lima, 



305 

 Oysters, British, mentioned by Juvenal, i. 262 ; natural history 



and cultivation, iv. 130 138 ; dredging for oysters, 137. (Sec 



Pearl Oysters.) 



Pacific Ocean, its depth and other characteristics, i. 28 : Map 

 of Islands, 245 ; discovered by Balboa, 303 ; Drake's first 

 view of it, 289, 302 : seen by the pirate Morgan, iii. 47 ; 

 storm in 1865. i. 139 ; " patent smoke-stack," ib. 



Pacific Ferry, The : San Francisco to Japan and China, iv. 31 

 iO ; to New Zealand and Australia, 45 55 



Pacific Naval Station, i. 156 



Pacific Railway, Life on the, iv. 19 ; scene in the Sierra Nevada 

 mountains, 20 ; snow-shed, 29 



" Pacific" steamer lost, ii. 108 



Paddle-boats, History of, ii. 77, 78 



Padstow, Wreck at, iv. 221 



Paleocapa, M. : his co-operation with M. de Lesseps in the 

 Suez Canal, i. Ill 



Palos : departure Of Columbus on his first voyage, iii. 293 



Panama, i. 171 ; taken and burnt by the pirate Morgan, iii. 



47 49 ; Spanish ships taken by the pirate Sawkins, iii. 51 

 54 ; view of the town, 52 

 Panama, Isthmus of, Drake at the, i. 303 

 Pandora sent to find the mutineers of the Bounty, i. 2i4; 



the ship wrecked, 246 

 "Pandora," Cruise of the, iii. 91 99 

 Papin : propulsion of ships, ii. 80 



Paraguayan torpedo blowing up aBrazilian ironclad, ii. 154 

 Parahelia, or mock suns, iii. 132 

 Parker, Richard, ringleader of the mutiny of the Nore, i. 252 



256 ; hanged, 256 



Parker, Sir Peter : mutiny at Spithead, i. 250 

 Parma, Prince of, in the Spanish Armada, i. 284, 286, 290 

 Parr, Lieutenant, his arrival on board the Alert, iii. 113 

 Parry, Sir. W. E.: Arctic expedition, iii. 163, 168, 170; boat, 

 and sledge expedition, 178 ; career after his Arctic voyages, 

 184; his death, 185 

 Parsees, i. 118 



Pasley, Colonel: raising of the Royal George, i. 62 

 Patagonia, Drake in, i. 308 



Payer, Lieutenant Julius, Arctic expedition of the " Germa- 

 nia" and " Haiisa," iii. 259: his discovery of coal in the 

 Arctic regions, 267 ; Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition in 

 the " Tegethoff," 271 ; two years on an ice-floe, ib. ; sledge; 

 expedition, 272 ; discovery of Franz Josef Land, ib. ; fall of 

 sledge into a crevasse, 273 

 Payerne's "Submarine Hydrostats," iv. 86 

 Peace, Men of: naval life in peace times; the cruise of the 



Challenger, i. 28 



Pearls from America taken to Spain, iii. 303 

 Pearl, Commodore Auson's ship. ii. 46, 50 

 Pearl oysters : pearls, real and artificial, iv. 67, 68, 69 ; history 



and practice of the pearl fishery, 70 

 Pearson, Captain, his ship taken by Paul Jones, iii. 77 

 Peat-bogs, Falkland islands, i. 177 



Pemmican: an Arctic dinner, iii. 210; mode of preparing, 216 

 Penguins and their eggs, i. 40, 41, 177; iii. 280 

 Penny, Captain W., search for Franklin in the "Lady 



Franklin," iii. 20", 210 

 Pensioners, Greenwich, iv. 286 

 Peuzance, iv. 219 



Perez, Father, his support of the plans of Columbus, iii. 286 

 Perils of the Sailor's Life, i. 54, 67 

 Perim Island, in the Red Sea, i. 117 

 Perrault, the Canadian voyageur, dividing his store with 



Richardson and his crew, iii. 192 

 Peru, i. 172 



Peter the Great : at Amsterdam, ii. 33 38 ; portrait, 33 ; in 

 England, 38 41 : receiving a deputation, 36 ; Saye's Court, 

 39 ; rise of St. Petersburg, 41 



Petersen, Christian, with Captain Nares in the Alert ; his 

 illness and death, iii. 105 ; the "Fox " Arctic expedition, 216, 

 218, 220, 227, 236, 241, 252 



Petropaulovski, i. 131, 132: Avatcha Bay, 131; scenery, 131, 

 134, 137: town attacked by the allied fleets, 132; double 

 wedding, 135 

 Pett, Phiueas : his improvements in war ships, i. 232 ; the 



Prince lioi/al, ii. 22 ; Hoyttl Sorereig-n, 29 

 Phillip, Captain, his voyage to Botany Bay, i. 152 

 Phipps, Captain, his Arctic voyage, iii. 154 

 Phipps, William, a fortunate diver, iv. 80 

 Phoenician fleets, i. 259 

 Phoenician remains in Malta, i. 103 

 Pholades, rock -borers, iv. 203 

 Phosphorescence of the sea, iv. 96, 97 

 Physalia, iv. 119, 120, 121 



Pierre le Grand, the pirate, iii. 7 ; Spanish admiral's ship 

 taken by him, 8, 9, 12 



Pillars of Hercules, i. 87 



Pirn, Lieut., of the Resolute, his meeting with Captain 



Maclure, iii. 213 



Pindar, his reference to the sea, i. 2 

 Pinto, Fernando Mendez, shipwrecked in Japan, i. 129 

 Piuzon, Viuceute Yauez, his voyage to America, iii. 303 

 Pioneer, the search for Franklin, iii. 207, 210 

 Pipe-fish, iv. 162, 164 

 Pipou, Capt., his discovery of the survivors of the Uonnfr, i.. 



247, 248 



