GENERAL INDEX. 



319 



Swedish Arctic expeditions, iii. 257 



Swedish ships : sanitary arraugements, ii. 120 



Sword-fish, arid mode of fishing for it, iv. 177, 178 



Sydney, South Australia, i. 154 ; its natural productions, ib. ; 



the Domain ; the botanic garden, loo ; iv. 52 

 Symington, William : steam navigation, ii. 82 ; his experi- 

 ments, 83, 84, 92 ; portrait, 85 

 Symous, Captain, lost in the "Amazon," ii. 278, 282 



Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, i. 207 



Tallack, W. : " Malta under the Phoenicians, Knights, and 

 English," i. 98 



'Taudou, Moquiu, on sea-monsters, i. 31 



Tasmaii : his discovery of Tasmania, i. 151 ; discovery of New 

 Zealand, ir. 51 ; the Maories, ib. 



Taylor, James : steam navigation, ii. 81, 83 



Tchuktchi Indians: iii. 158; building a hut, 157; Professor 

 Nordenskjiild at a Tchuktchi village, 275 



Tea in Chili, i. 175 ; Japanese, i. 133 ; iv. 43 



Tea tax in America, ii. 67 69, 72 ; thrown overboard, 69, 72 



"Tegethoff:" Austro- Hungarian Arctic expedition, iii. 271; 

 two years on an ice-floe, ib. ; the ship abandoned, 274 



Telegraphy : submarine cables, iv. 98 



Telescope, equatorial, at the Observatory, Greenwich, iv. 218 

 Temerairc, i. 5, 10, 11; her engines, i. 225 



Temperature : of the depths of the sea, i. 30 ; of the Atlantic 

 Ocean, 37 ; extreme cold in the Arctic regions, iii. 103, 105, 

 111, 135, 136, 171. 225, 236, 237, 276 



Tenuey, Matthew : his heroism on board the Cumberland, i. 22 



'Teredo, iv. 128 



Temati, Drake at, i. 312, 313 



Terror and Erebus among the icebergs, iii. 193, 197 



Terror: voyage of the Terror under Captain Back, 196; the ship 

 nipped in the ice, 204 ; Franklin's last expedition, 207 ; 

 discoveiy of relics, 227, 230 



Thames : Great Storm of 1703, ii. 204 ; poetry of the, iv. 272 



Theatre at Lima, i. 172 



Theatres, Chinese, in San Francisco, i. 161 



Theatricals: on the " Great Britain," iv. 34; "Royal Arctic 

 Theatres" on the Alert and Discovery., iii. 103; on other 

 Arctic ships, 170 



^Themistocle," i. 7 



'Thermometers for deep-sea sounding, i. 30, 37, 38 



Thirst, sufferings from, ii. 16 



Thomas, Captain, lost in the " Schiller," ii. 267, 270 



Thomson, J., " The Straits of Malacca," i. 144 



Thomson, Professor Wyville ; cruise of the Challenger, i. 29 



Thome, Robert, his voyage of discovery, iii. 119 



'Tliorpeness, Suffolk, iv. 247 ; enterprise of Joseph Chard, ib. 



Thunderer ; her engines, i. 225 



Tides of the Ocean, iv. 92 



Tilbury Fort ; Great Storm of 1703 : West Indiamen wrecked, 

 ii. 205 



Time, mode of reckoning it in ships; "watches," "bells," 

 "dog-watches," i. 50 



Time, difference between London and Sail Francisco, iv. 30 



Timor, Lieut. Bligh at ; mutiny of the Bounty, i. 242 



Tobacco in Cuba when discovered by Columbus, iii. 290 



Tobago ; Crusoe's Island, i. 179 



Top-knot, a minute flat-fish, iv. 206 



'Torpedo (fish), iv. 160 



Torpedoes : Fulton's submarine boat, ii. 88 ; Marquis of 

 Worcester's inventions, 146 ; Bishop Wilkius's subaqueous 

 vessel, or "ark," 148; Schott, Knuffter, Fulton's tor- 

 pedoes, ib., 149; Cushing's attack 011 the " Albemarle," 151 : 

 "Lay" torpedo, ib. ; Porter's, Fulton's, Lay torpedo, Spar 

 torpedo, 153; Paraguayan torpedo, 154; Harvey torpedo, 

 153, 155 ; Whitehead or "fish" torpedo, 155 



Torres, Luis Vaes de ; Torres Strait, iii. 277 



Tortuga, bucauiers at, iii. 5, 6 ; wild dogs and horses, iii. 7 ; 

 its discovery ; turtles, 315 



Torture : Spaniards tortured by pirate?, iii. 38 



Toulon, Siege of, i. 6 



"Trades' Increase," East Iiidianiau, ii. 13 



Trafalgar, Battle of, i. 1013, 227 



Training Ships, i. 44 ; the Chichester, 45, 47 ; course of in- 

 struction and drill, 48, 49 ; saluting officers, 48 ; incessant 

 work, 49 : iv. 287 



Transportation of convicts to Australia, i. 154 



Treasure ships, i. 311 : ii. 19, 55, 56, 5961 ; iii. 60, 63 



Trent in the ice, iii. 165, 166, 16? 



Trepaug fisheries (Holothuria), iv. 127, 128 



Trevethick, Robt., portrait, ii. 97 



Trinidad, Columbus landing at, i. 177, 178 ; iii. 295 ; visit of 

 Amerigo Vespucci, 302 ; Raleigh at, ii. 4, 33 



Trinidad. Port of Spain, i. 179-182 



Trinity House and the Trinity Corporation, iv. 287 289 ; 

 duties of the Board, 289 ; light- vessels and staff of the 

 Corporation, ib. ; royal and noble Masters and Brethren, ib. ; 

 fog-horns or Siren signals, ib. 



Tripe de roche : rock-lichen as food, iii. 241 



Tristan d'Acunha, i. 38, 201 



Triton, a univalve shell, iv. 144 



Trochus, a univalve shell, iv. 141 



Trollope, Anthony: "The West Indies and the Spanish Main," 

 i. 179, 182, 183; Bermuda, 187, 188; New Zealand, iv. 51; 

 Sydney, 52 ; Melbourne, 54 



Tromp, Martin, ii. 30 



Tnjnl, Commodore Ansou's ship, ii. 46, 50, 55 



Tunny: tunny-fishing, iv. 177 



Turbo, a univalve shell, iv. 141 



Turret- ships : " Monitor," "Merrimac," "Miautonoma, 139, 

 140, 141; interior of a turret- ship, 142; "Brooklyn," "Ohio," 

 Captain, Vanyuard, Warrior, Jilack Prince, 143 ; other 

 turret-ships : Inflexible, 144, 145 ; Alexandra, 146, 147 



Turtle at the Island of Ascension, i. 202 



''Tuscarora: " deep-sea soundings, i. 28, 30 



Twain, Mark: his account of the Bermudas, i. 189 



Tyre, Ships of, i. 259 



Uuclassed slaps, ii. 123 



Union gun-boat, i. 6 



"United Kingdom " steam-ship, ii. 98, 99 



" United States," Dr. Hayes's Arctic expedition, iii. 255 



Univalves, iv. 139 



Uuseaworthy ships, ii. 112 119 



Upemavik, Danish settlement at, iii. 254 



Urchins: sea - urchins, iv. 126, 128 



Utah, iv. 23 



Valetta, i. 98 



Valparaiso, i. 172, 173 



Vancouver : his discoveries, iii. 319 



Vancouver Island: Esquimalt ; Victoria,!. 163, 165; Exploring 



Expedition, 167 : cedar canoes, ib.; " Chinook jargon," ib.; 



Nanaimo, 168 



Vaudepat, Admiral, anecdotes of, 218 

 Vane, Captain Charles, the pirate, iii. 69 ; betrayed by a 



former friend, and executed, 70 

 Vanguard (Nelson's ship), i. 105 ; ii. 74 

 Vanguard, loss of the, i. 33, 63-66; ii. 143 

 Van Tromp, Admiral, ii. 31 

 Vasco da Garna : the Cape doubled by him, i. 203 ; discovery 



of Natal, 211 ; his first voyage to India, iii. 298; arrival at 



Calicut, 299; second expedition, ib.; arrival at, and death in, 



Cochin China, 300 ; portrait, 301 

 Vasco Nunez, his discoveries in the Pacific, iii. 314 

 Vasco Perez de Meira ; his siege of Gibraltar, i. 91 

 Veddahs, wild men of the woods in Ceylon, i. 119 

 " Vega" : Professor Nordenskj old's Arctic voyage, iii. 274 

 Vene-rablc : mutiny of the Nore, i. 254 

 Venetian ships, i. 262 

 Venice, Breakwater at, ii. 188 

 " Venus's Flower-basket," i. 30, 32 



Verne, Jules : " Round the World in Eighty Days," iv. 2, 5 

 Verne : citadel of the Verne, Portland, ii. 196, 197 

 Vemon, Admiral ("Old Grog"), i. 51 

 ''Vesta'' (Russian) and "Assari Tefvik (Turkish) ships: 



action between them, i. 27. 



Victoria (Hong Kong), described by Baron Hiibner, iv. 43 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island, i. 163, 165 

 Victoria Land discovered by Sir James Ross, iii. 280 

 Vietunj : Sir John Ross's Arctic ship, iii. 186, 225 

 Victory : Queen Elizabeth's ship, i. 292 

 Victory : Nelson's ship, i. 412, 96, 227 

 Vikings : their galleys, i. 263 : their Arctic voyages, iii. 115 

 Viking ship discovered at Gokstad, iv. 230 

 Villeneuve, Admiral of the French fleet at Trafalgar, i. 1 1 

 Virgil's " JEneid," references to the sea, iv. 291 

 "Virginia,," "Merrimac," i. 19 

 Virginia discovered by Amadas and Barlow, i. 319 ; named by 



Queen Eh'zibeth, ib; colonisation of, ii. 2. 



