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Piracy, ii. 235 ; pirates at Singapore, i. 146 ; Scotch pirates in 

 the loth century, 279 ; Barbary pirates, ii. 42 ; Drake as a 

 pirate, i. 309; the Earl of Cumberland, 291295 ; Captains 

 Quelch and Bellamy, and others, ii. 63; "Black Beard" 

 the pirate, Ib. ; " The Pirates and Bucauiers," iii. 1 59 ; 

 their early history, 2 ; Captain Jennings, 3 ; Esquemeliug's 

 account of the bucaniers, ib. ; pirate vessels, 17th century, 

 4; their mode of dividing spoils, 11, 45 ; "Pirates of the 

 18th century," 59 71 : female pirates, Mary Eead and 

 Anne Bonney, iii. 69 ; Shakespeare's allusions to pirates, iv. 

 294, 295 

 Pitcaim Island : survivors and descendants of the mutiny of 



the Bounty, i. 247249 



Pitt, William, of Jamaica, his song on sailors, i. 42 

 Pittsburg, iv. 14 



Pizarro, Francisco, voyage with Ojeda, iii. 309 

 Pizarro, Don Josef : disasters of his fleet, ii. 47 

 Plagues in the 14th and 15th centuries, i. 91 

 Plimsoll, Samuel: portrait, ii. 112; unseaworthy ships; his 



efforts, ii. 113 

 Plorer : search for Sir John Franklin, Plover Bay, i. 138: 



iii. 156, 207, 211 ; village at Plover Bay, 156 

 Plymouth, iv. 224 

 Plymouth Adventurers, ii. 11 

 Plymouth Breakwater, ii. 192 

 Plymouth men lost in the Captain, i. 55 

 Puiel, South Africa, diamond fields, i. 210 _ 

 Poe, Edgar Allan, his story of a descent into the Maelstrom, 



iv. 94 



Poets on the Sea, the Sailor, and the Ship, iv. 290304 

 Point-a-Pitre, Guadaloupe, i. 186 

 Polar bears. (Sec Bears.) 

 Polar region : extent of our knowledge, iii. 86 ; a fabulous 



account, 8791 ; theory of a Polar Sea, 255, 257 

 "Polaris:" Capt. Hall's Arctic expedition, iii 268; the ship 



run ashore, 270 

 Polaris Bay, iii. 107 



Polynesia, Map of the islands of the Pacific, i. 245 

 Ponce de Leon, conqueror of Porto Eico and discoverer of 

 Florida, iii. 314 ; search for a miraculous fountain, 315 ; 

 Tortugas discovered by him, ib. 

 Pontoppidan, Bishop : the sea-serpent, iv. 184 

 Porcupine, Scientific cruise of the, i. 30 

 Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, i. 204 

 Porter's torpedo-boat, ii. 153, 154 

 Port Fleetwood lighthouse, ii. 182 

 Port Foulke, Dr. Hayes' winter quarters, iii. 256 

 Fort Jackson, Australia, i. 152, 154 

 Portland: fortifications, ii. 195; the Verne, 196 

 Portland Breakwater: convict labour, ii. 191, 193, 195 

 Port Philip, South Australia, i. 155 

 Port Eoyal, Jamaica, i. 183 

 Port Said, i. 110, 113 

 Portsmouth, Mutiny at, i. 225, 251 

 Port of Spain, Trinidad, i. 179 

 Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, i. 176, 178 

 Portuguese exploration : King John of Portugal and Bar- 

 tholomew Diaz, iii. 281, 284 ; Columbus, 284 ; Vasco da 

 Gama, 298 



Portuguese man-of-war, iv. 119 

 Portuguez the pirate, iii. 13; his escape, 13, 14 

 Possession Island, Australia, i. 152 ; iii. 280 

 Prahus of the Malay Archipelago, i. 149 

 Prairie on fire, iv. 22 

 Prairie schooners, iv. 18, 22 

 Prawns, iv. 157 



Praya diphyes, a Medusa, iv. 117 

 "President," devoted to the Naval Artillery Volunteers, i. 



231 



Press-gangs, i. 43 



Pricket, Abacuk : his account of the mutiny against and aban- 

 donment of Hudson, iii. 147 

 Primrose, Joseph, a minister on board the "Polly": his 



trials, i. 223 



Prince Royal, built for James II., ii. 22 

 " Princess Alice " lost in the Thames, iv. 282 

 " Princess Alice " on Goodwin Sands, ii. 251 

 Pringle, Admiral : mutiny at the Cape, i. 256 

 Printing presses in Arctic ships, iii. 103 

 Protozoa, iv. Ill 

 Pteropoda, iv. 139, 142 



Puerto Bello taken by the pirate Morgan, iii. 33 



Pullen, Captain: search for Franklin in the Herald, iii ^11 



in the North Star, 213 

 Pullman railway car, iv. 16 

 Purpura lapillus : a univalve shell, iv. 145 



Quarles, Francis ; lines on the sea, iv. 290 



Quatrefages, M. : the lighthouse of Hehaux, Brittany, ii. 178 ; 



Hydrozoa, iv. 118 

 Queen Charlotte's Island, i. 167 

 " Quieda Merchant," Moorish ship, taken by Captain Kidcl, 



iii. 57 



Eae, W. F. : his account of California, i. 158 ; the Eocky 



Mountains, iv. 21 

 Eae, Dr. : relics of Franklin's last voyage found by him, iii. 



215 



Eaffles, Sir Stamford, at Singapore, i. 143 

 Eafts : timber-rafts at Singapore, i. 146 ; raft of the 



"Medusa," i. 76 82; Gericault's painting, 81; foundering 



of the "Arctic," ii. 108 

 Eain in the Arctic regions, iii. 182 

 Ealeigh, Sir Walter : the Spanish Armada, i. 285 ; colonisation 



and trade with America, 315 ; Queen Elizabeth's patronage, 



316; "Bark Ealeigh," ib.', colonisation of Virginia, ii. 2; 



search for El Dorado, 4; arrival at Trinidad, 4, 33 ; portrait, 



5 ; mountains of Guiana ; river Orinoco, 8 ; fabulous tales, 



ib. ; his observations on trade and the state of the navy, 10 

 Ealph the Eover : the bell of the Inchcape Eock, ii. 173 

 Earns of ironclads: loss of the Vanguard and " Grosser 



Kurfiirst," ii. 155 



Eamsay, David, patents for steam-ships, ii. 79 

 Eamsgate : iv. 241 ; wrecks on the Goodwin Sands, ii. 212 



235 ; map of Eamsgate and the Goodwin Sands at low 



water, 252 



Eamsgate Life-boat and the "Aid" steam-tug, ii. 215 

 " Eauger," Paul Jones's ship, iii. 72, 75 

 Eats on board ship, i. 222 ; on the sea-coast, iv. 197 ; on Looe 



Island, 214 



Eaw meat : its medicinal value in Arctic regions, iii. 244 

 Eawson, Lieut., in Arctic exploration, iii. 102, 105, 106, 107 

 Bazor-fish, iv. 128, 129 

 Eed-hot shot, first record of, i. 91 ; at Sebastopol, 16 ; at 



Gibraltar, 16, 18 

 Eed Sea, i. 115; passage of the Israelites, ib. ; its name; coral 



and animalculse, 117 ; islands, ib. 

 Redoubtable, at Trafalgar, i. 10, 11, 12 

 Eeed, Sir E. J. : cost of ironclad war-ships, i. 14 : designer of 



the Iron Duke and Vanguard, 67 : big guns and armour 



plates, 6; "Our Ironclad Ships," ii. 144, 146 

 Eeindeerin Spitzbergen, iii. 167; at Hammerfest, 179; veni- 

 son, 246 

 Eelics brought back by the Franklin search expedition, iii, 



229 

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



Canal, i. 110 

 Eendel, J. E., C.E. : his co-operation in the Suez Canal, i. 110 ; 



Portland breakwater, ii. 194 



Eennie, James : his advocacy of steam war- vessels, ii. 98 

 Eennie, John : the Bell Eock lighthouse, ii. 173, 176 ; Plymouth 



breakwater, 190 : his use of the diving bell, iv. 81 

 Eensselaer Harbour: winter quarters of Dr. Kane in the 



"Advance," iii. 235 

 Rescue : the search for Franklin, iii. 214 

 Resolute : the search for Franklin, iii. 207 

 Resolution ; Arctic voyages, iii. 155 



Resolution and Adventure: Captain Cook's voyage of dis- 

 covery, iii. 277 

 Eestoration Island named by Lieutenant Bligh : mutiny of the 



Bounty, i. 244 

 Eeticulosa, iv. Ill 



Eeynaud, M. : Hehaux lighthouse, Brittany, ii. 178181 

 Ehizopoda, iv. Ill 

 Ehodosperms, iv. 200 

 Eichardl., first maritime code, i. 268; laws against wrecking, 



ii. 237 



Eichardson, Sir John : portrait, iii. 185 ; his adventure with 

 wolves, 189, 190; his attempt to swim the Coppermine 

 Eiver, iii. 191, 193 



Eiou, Capt., his death at Copenhagen, i. 152 

 Eoanoake ; its colonisation, ii. 2 



