GENEEAL INDEX. 



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"Roanoake," i. 20 



Robber crab, iv. 152 



"Robert J. Stockton," iron steam-ship, ii. 103, 104 



'Roberts, Captain Bartholomew, the pirate, iii. 63, 64 



Roberts, Lady: her help in the wreck of the "Killarney," ii. 

 314, 317 



Robin Hood's Bay, iv. 256 



Robinson Crusoe : the island of Juan Fernandez, i. 33 - 36 



" Rob Roy : " Napier's steam-vessel, ii. 98 



Rock-borers, iv. 203 



Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Railway, iv. 21 



Rodney's naval victory, i. 186 



R'tles d'Oleron : laws against wrecking, ii. 237 



-Biman ships and galleys, i. 261 



Itonayne, John : his bravery in saving life, ii. 257 261 



Rooke, Sir George : Gibraltar taken by him, i. 94 



Rose, Richard : his life-buoy seat, iv. 262 



Ross, Sir John : portrait, iii. 161 ; his Arctic voyages, 163 ; his 

 voyage in the Victory, 186 ; search for Franklin in the 

 Felix, 207 



Ross, Sir James Clarke: Arctic voyage, iii. '163 ; Arctic explo- 

 ration, 179, 181, 184; discovery of the magnetic pole, 187; 

 "Fox " expedition in search of Franklin, 216, 225 ; discovery 

 of the South Polar Land ; Victoria Land, Possession Island, 

 and Mount Erebus, 280 



" Rothsay Castle," wreck of the. ii. 288, 297304 



Round the World on a Man-of-war, i. 87 214 



" Round the World in Eighty Days," iv. 1 



Royal George, loss of the, i. 59 62 ; its removal by Colonel 

 Pasley, 62 ; diving operations, iv. 86 



Royal Humane Society, iv. 263 



lloyal Observatory, Greenwich, iv. 278 282 



Jloyal Sovereign, Charles I. 'a ship, ii. 2D 



lloyal Sovereign, i. 5 



Rudyerd, John, second Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 161 ; de- 

 stroyed by fire, 160, 163 : death of a keeper, ib. 



Russell, J. Scott, F.R.S., "The Fleet of the Future : Iron or 



. Wood," i. 85; ii. 101; portrait. 129; construction of the 

 "Great Eastern," 130 



Russian America, Alaska, i. 169, 170 



Russian Arctic Explorations, iii. 185 



Russian attempts to discover the north-west passage, iii. 159 ; 

 Russian Arctic voyages, 159 162 



Russian ironclads, i. 83 



Saba Island, West Indies, i. 185 



Sabine; Arctic expedition, iii. 163, 170 



Said Pacha and M. de Lesseps, i. 108 



.Sailors : Lascars, Malays, and Kanakas, i. 43 ; Devonshire 



boys on training ships, 46 ; rating of sailors (able, ordinary, 



and boys), 51; their hardships, 53; flogging, 5153; 



perils of the sailor's life, 54 ; their conduct on board the 



Terror, iii. 199. (8ce Discipline.) 



St. Catherine's Island, taken by the pirate Morgan, iii. 45 

 St. Domingo : drawing by Columbus of its discovery, iii. 292 ; 



early gold- washing at, 293 ; war, mutiny, and famine, 



295 ; Diego Columbus made governor, 308 

 :St. Elias, Mount, Alaska, i. 170 

 -St. George's Island, Bermuda, i. 187, 189 

 St. Helena, i. 212, 213 

 -St. John's, Newfoundland: possession taken by Sir Humphrey 



Gilbert, i. 318 



'St. Juan de Ulloa, Sir John Hawkins's action at, i. 299, 301 

 " St. Lawrence," i. 20 

 St. Lucia, i. 187 



St. Paul's travels ; his shipwreck at Malta, i. 103, 104 

 *'St. Valentine," treasure -ship, taken by Moiison, ii. 21 

 St. Vincent, Battle of, i. 7, 8, 9 

 St. Vincent, Lord: suppression of the mutiny on the St. 



George, i. 256 ; portrait, 257 

 Salmon, the, its natural history, iv. 163168 ; parr, smolt, 



grilse, ib. ; abundance of its ova, 164 ; tinned salmon from 



America, 166 

 Salmon : fisheries of California, Vancouver's Island, British 



Columbia, Alaska, i. 164, 168, 170, 171, 202 ; mode of 



curing, iv. 167 ; salmon leaps, ib. 

 'Saltness of the sea, i. 87, 97 ; iv. 90 



.Salt Lake, Great ; Salt Lake City, iv. 23 ; Cape Douglas gar- 

 rison, 24, 25 ; street in the city, 25 

 Salvador, i. 8 

 " Salvador del Mundi," i. 9 



" Samaritaiio," wrecked on the Goodwin Sands; Margate and 



Ramsgate lifeboats, ii. 217 223 

 Samphire, iv. 231, 233 



Sandgate : loss of the " Grosser Kurfiirst," iv. 238 

 Sandwich : seal of the town, i. 274 

 Sandwich in the mutiny of the Nore, i. 252 

 Sandwich Islands : Honolulu ; the king, iv. 45 ; the ex-queen 



Emma, 46; sugar cultivation, ib.; volcanoes, 47 

 Sandy Hook Light, New York, i. 196 



San Francisco : the bay; its entrance, the " Golden Gate," i. 

 157; the city, 158; its history, ib.; society, 161; view of the 

 bay, 160 ; a timber wharf, 156 ; " John Chinaman " in San 

 Francisco, 161; Chinese theatres, ib.; earthquakes, 162; iv. 

 29, 30; Drake at, i. 313 

 San Joseph, i. 8 



San Juan Island, i. 166 ; British camp, i. 165 

 " San Nicolas," i. 8 

 San Salvador, the first laud in the New World discovered by 



Columbus, iii. 288 



Santangel, his support of the plans of Columbus, iii. 286 

 Santiago, i. 172 



" Sautissima Trinidada," i. 8, 10 

 Saracens, their ships, i. 269 

 Sardines : mode of fishing for, iv. 174 

 " Savannah," the Atlantic first crossed by her, ii. 105 

 Saving life at sea. (Sec Hovellers, Life, and Lifeboats.) 

 Saw-fish, iv. 162 



Sawkins, Captain, the pirate, iii. 51 55 

 Scaliger, J. C. : history of paddle-boats, ii. 78 

 Scallops, iv. 138, 140 



Scammoii, Captain, soundings in Behriug Sea, i. 138 

 Scandinavian early explorers of the Arctic regions, iii. 116 

 Scarborough: iv. 253; shipwrecks, loss of the "Couplaud," 



254 



"Schiller," loss of the, ii. 267 



School on board the " Fox " in the Arctic regions, iii. 219 

 Scilly Islands, ii. 268270 



Scoresby : changes in the Greenland ice-fields, iii. 163, 178 

 Scotland, pearl fisheries of, iv. 71 

 Scott, Mr. : buried at sea in the " Fox " Arctic expedition, iii. 



221 



Screw-propeller, history of its invention, ii. 102 

 Screw steamer, plan and section of stem, ii. 101 

 Scurvy : on board in Anson's fleet, ii. 50, 119; in the expedi- 

 tion of the Alert and Dincovert/, iii. 106, 107, 111, 114; 

 in Munk's Arctic voyage, 150; in Vitus Behriug, Ischirikoff, 

 and Parry's voyages, 161, 162, 176; in Dr. Kane's expedi- 

 tion, 239 



Sea, the: its living wonders, iv. Ill; its saltuess, agitation, 

 and waves, iv. 90 ; the Gulf Stream, 91 ; tides, 92 ; its colour 

 and phosphorescence, 96, 97 

 Sea-anemones, iv. 123, 196 198 



Sea coasts : " Sketches of our Coasts," Cornwall, iv. 207 22") : 

 South coasts, 225247 ; East coasts, Norfolk, Yorkshire, 247 

 Sea of Ancient Ice, voyage of the Alert, iii. 101 

 Sea- cucumber, iv. 126, 128 

 Sea-elephants, i. 34 ; iii. 279 

 Sea-shore : " By the Sea-shore," iv. 190 207 ; calm and storm, 



192 



" Sea-goers" in guard-ships, i. 45 

 Sea-horse, iii. 155, 156 ; iv. 162 

 Sea- lion, iv. 188 

 Seamen. (See Sailors.) 

 Sea-monsters, fabulous, i. 31 



Sea-polyps from the Atlantic : voyage of the Challenger, i. 31 

 Sea-serpent : various accounts of it, drawings, conjectures, 



and probabilities, iv. 184 190 

 Sea-sickness, i. 50 

 Sea-sickness and remedies, iv. 6, 7 

 Sea songs and poems, by Dibdiu and others, i. 8, 42 ; iv. 298 



304 



Sea-trees, Falkland Islands, i. 178 

 Sea-urchins, sea-slugs, iv. 125 

 Sea- weeds, iv. 200 

 Seal of the town of Sandwich, i. 274 

 Seals : on inaccessible island, i. 40 : their flesh as food, iii. 94, 



217219, 251 



Sebastopol, siege and bombardment of, i. 14, 15 

 Selkirk, Alexander, on the island of Juan Fernandez, i. 33 

 Selkirk, Lady : plate taken from her by Paul Jones, iii. 73, 74 ; 

 returned five years afterwards, 75 



