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GENERAL INDEX. 



" Serapis " taken by Paul Jones, iii. 77 



Setou, Major: loss" of the "Birkeuhead," i. 7t 



Sfirr/i : Commodore Alison's sliip, ii. 40, 50 



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



Shakespeare's allusions to the sea, iv. 291 295; " The Tem- 

 pest," 292; "Merchant of Venice," 294; "Measure for 

 Measure," Henry VI. part ii., " Richard III.," "Pericles," 

 '" Cymbeliue," " Antony and Cleopatra," "Hamlet," 295. 



Shakespeare's Cliff, iv. 240 



Shanghai, i. 122, 125 



Sharks and Shark Fishing, iv. 160 ; common shark ; tiger 

 shark, 161 ; the shark worshipped in Africa, 162 



Sharp, Captain, the pirate, iii. 55 



Shells, Univalve, iv. 139 



" Shenandoah : " her exploits in the American war, i. 139 ; 

 American whale ships burnt, iii. 157 



Sheshaldinski, Peak of, Aleutian Islands, i. 171 



Ships and shipping interests, History of, i. 258 ii. 156 



Ship-building, History of. (<SYr Naval Architecture.) 



Ship-money raised by Charles I., ii. 28 



Shipwrecks and their lessons, ii. 297 



Shipwrecks ; Falconer's poem, iv. 297 



Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, iv. 226, 249, 258, 272 



Shrimps, iv. 158 



Sieges of Gibraltar, i. 90 



Sierra Leoue, i. 202, 204 ; Drake at, 314 



Sierra Nevada, iv. 20, 27, 28 ; snow-shed, 29 



Siffante, south-west wind, i. 107 



Signals of distress, ii. 266, 275 ; iv. 289 ; necessity for electric 

 communication, ii. 277 



Sigurd, King, the crusader, at Gibraltar, i. 90 



Silver Mines in Nevada, iv. 26 



Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, i. 206 



Singapore, i. 143 ; spices, foliage, fruit, climate, 145, 146 : 

 scenery and commerce, 147 ; new harbour, 146, 147 ; corals, 

 150 ; Kling gharry drivers, 150 ; tiger hunting, il>. ; views, 

 152, 153 



Singhapura, Strait pirates, i. 146 



Sin ope, Battle of, i. 15 



Siren signals, iv. 289 



"Sirius," ii. 106 



Sirocco, i. 107 



Sitka, the capital of Alaska, i. 169, 170 



Skeletons of Franklin's crews found by McCliutock, iii. 230 



Skerryvore Lighthouse, ii. 175 178 



Slave-trade : established, i. 295 ; slaves taken by Sir John 

 Hawkins, ib. ; the African Company, ii. 33 ; views of 

 Columbus on slavery, iii. 295, 302 ; slaves from America 

 taken to Spain by Columbus and others, 295, 302, 307. 



Sledges in Arctic exploration, iii. 99 1 14, 133 : sledge journeys 

 by McClintock, iii. 225 ; by Morton, in Dr. Kane's 

 Arctic expedition, 239 ; by Dr. Kane's, 248 ; by Capt. 

 Parry's, 179; by Lieut. Payer's, 272 



Sleep in the Arctic regions, iii. 251 



Sleepy comfort of freezing : Dr. Kane's experience, iii. 237 



Slip water bottles, for deep-sea sounding, i. 29, 38 



Smeatou, John : biographical notice, ii. 164 ; third Eddystone 

 lighthouse, 165; portrait, 170; diving bell. iv. 81 



Smiles, Samuel : Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 

 164, 170 ; Plymouth Breakwater, 191 



Smith, Sir Sidney, i. 6 



Smith, William, Discovery of South Polar Land, iii. 278 



Smith's Sound, view in, iii. 149 ; discovered by Baffin, 150 ; 

 explored by Dr. Kane, 233 



" Smoke-stack, Patent," on the " G. S. Wright," i. 141 



Smuggling, iv. 210, 234 



Smyth, Eear- Admiral : "The Mediterranean," i. 87 



Snow and ice; on American railways, iv. 21, 28; at Plover 

 Bay, i. 139 ; crimson snow, iii. 164. (And tee Ice.) 



Snow-blindness, iii. 179, 182, 239 



Snow houses, iii. 244 



Snow village in Greenland, iii. 173, 174 



" Sofia," Swedish Arctic expedition, iii. 257 



Soldier crab, iv. 154 



Soldiers at sea ; burning of the "Kent," i. 69, 70, 72: loss of 

 the ''Birkeuhead," 74, 75; wreck of the "Medusa,"' 77, 78, 

 79,80 



Solen or razor-fish, iv. 128, 129 



Songs, Naval, i. 42, 43 



" Souffleur, The." or the Blower. Mauritius, iv. 95 



Southampton, iv. 225 



South-east American Station, i. 1"5 



South Sea Bubble, ii. 4244 



South Virginia Company: colonisation of America, ii. 11 



Southey's "Life of Nelson," i. 8, 10; "British Admirals,"' 

 274, 275, 278 ; defeat of the Armada, 290 ; Sir John 

 Hawkins and the slave-trade, 298; Drake's circumnavi- 

 gation of the globe, 314; anecdotes of Drake, 315; ex- 

 ploits of Sir William Monson, ii. 19 : sea anemones, iv. 197 



Sovereign of the Seas, launched by Phineas Pett, i. 232 



Spaldiug's diving-bell, its failure, and his death, iv. 81 



Spanish Armada defeated, i. 283 291 



Spanish galleons taken during the Commonwealth, ii. 31 ; 

 taken by Ansou, 59 61 ; iii. 3 



Spanish expedition to El Dorado, ii. 9 



Speedy, commanded by Admiral Cochrane, i. 219 ; action with 

 the Spanish frigate " Gamo," \b. 



Spiders in ships, i. 221 



Spinola : action at Cerimbra Roads, ii. 19, 21 



Spinous cockle, iv. 204 



Spithead, mutiny at, i. 251 



Spitsbergen : discovery of, iii. 142; Magdalcua Bay, 166, 167; 

 animal life in, 167, 257 



Spolasco, Dr. : wreck of the "Killamey," ii. 305 



Spoudylus, iv. 138, 140 



Sponges: "Veuus's Flower-basket," i. 30, 32; sponge fishing; 

 off the coast of Greece, iv. 65, 77 



Sprat, iv. 173 



Spray of the ocean, iv. 92 



Spry, W. J. J., R.N. : cruise of the Chattmffer, i. 28 



Squat lobsters, iv. 158 



" Squirrel," Sir Humphrey Gilbert's ship, i. 318 



Stables, Dr., R.N., on the punishment of the " cat," i. 52, 53 ; 

 " Medical Life in the Navy," i. 220 



Staines, Sir Thomas : his discovery of the survivors of th& 

 Bounty, i. 247, 248 



Stamp Act in America, ii. 66 



Star-fish from the Atlantic ; voyage of the CJinUcin/cr, i. 31 ; 

 iv. 125, 128 



Stations, Naval : American, i. 102; Pacific, 156; Australian,. 

 119, 131, 150; China, 119, 137: East India, 119; South- 

 east American, 175; West Indian, 178; North American. 

 198 ; African, 202 



Steam-power essential in deep-sea sounding, i. 29, 30 



Steam as a motive-power for ships : early history, ii. 79 97 



Steam-ships first used for Arctic exploration, iii. 186 



Steam war-ships first introduced, i. 225 



Steel ships, i. 84 



Stephens, F. G. : "History of Gibraltar and its Sieges," i. 90 1 



revolving and other lights, 186 



Stevenson, Robert, Renuie's assistant at the Bell Rock Light- 

 house, ii. 175 



Stewart, Captain A. : search for Franklin, iii. 207 



Stirling, J. D. Morriss, on the sea-serpent, iv. 187, 189 



Storms : the great gale of 1703; Defoe's account, ii. 199- 200 : 

 other accounts, 201, 202, 203; "The Storm," "After 

 the Storm," and other illustrations, iv. 292, 293, 296, 297.. 

 300, 301 



Straits of Gibraltar: scene ry, i. 9" 



Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount : his verses on the lifeboat,, 

 ii.211 



Strombus, a univalve shell, iv. 144 



Sturgeon and its roe ; caviare, iv. 162 



Submarine telegraph cables, iv. 98 



Submerged forest, iv. 199 



Suez, i. 110, 114, 115 



Suez Canal : procession of ships at its opening, i. 97 ; M. do 

 Lesseps' published works on the Canal ; its origin and com- 

 pletion, i. 107115; statistics, 115; bird's-eye view, 109 



Sugar plantations, Jamaica, i. 183 



Sun, The. (f>ee Mock Sims.) 



Sun at midnight in the Arctic regions, iii. 264 



" Sunbeam : "' vovage of circumnavigation, iv. 40 ; 61, C2 



Sun-fish, iv. 162/164 



Sunshine in the Polar regions, iii. 109 



Surgeons in the navy, i. 52 



fticettfoic, i. 7 



flicafloir, Sir Humphrey Gilbert's ship, i. 318 



Swamped at sea: loss of the " London, "ii. 289, 290297 



