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GENERAL INDEX. 



Vogt, on the Aqalma rnbra, iv. 118 



Voices of fish, 'iv. 178 



Volante, a carriage iu Havana, i. 184 



Volcanoes : iu the Antarctic region, iii. 280 ; in Japan, iv. 47 ; 



in New Zealand, 50 ; in the West Indies, i. 186 ; volcanic 



origin of Bermuda, i. 187 

 Volunteers, Naval, i. 232-234 

 Voluta, a univalve shell, iv. 141 



Jl'i/r/cr, Commodore Auson's ship, ii. 46, 51, 54 



" Waisters " in guard ships, i. 45 



Walker, Dr. David: " Fox " expedition in search of Franklin, 

 iii. 216 



" Walnut Shell " boat, for Franklin's second expedition, iii. 194 



Walrus, iii. 146, 157, 166 ; early description of it, 130 



Walrus meat, iii. 238, 240, 245, 263 



Walter, Eev. R., " Ausou's Voyage Round the World," ii. 46 



Warburton, Eliot, "The Crescent and the Cross," i. 98; lost 



in the "Amazon," ii. 283 



Warrior, the first English ironclad, i. 18, 85 ; ii. 143 ; her 

 engine-room, i. 225, 226 



Warwick, the King-maker : his piracies, i. 276 



"Watches " and " dog-watches," i. 50 



Watt, James : the steam-engine, ii 80 ; portrait, 97 



Waves off the Cape of Good Hope, iv. 89 



Webb, Capt. Matthew, his " Art of Swimming," iv. 258 ; his 

 wonderful feats in natation, iv. 258266 ; portrait, 265 



Weddell, Captain : voyage to the South Seas, iii. 279 



Weever-fish, iv. 205, 206 



Weppner, Margharita: Falls of Niagara, iv. 15; San Fran- 

 cisco, 30 



West Indian Islands, map, iii. 17 



West India Naval Station, i. 178 



West Indies : the home of the bucaniers, iii. 2 



Weymouth's attempt to discover North-West Passage, iii. 143 



Weyprecht, Lieutenant : Austro- Hungarian Arctic expedition 

 iu the "Tegethoff," iii. 271 



Whales and whale-fishing, iv. 179 184 ; Northern and Southern 

 whales, 180, 181 ; sperm whale, spermaceti, 181, 182; blubber 

 and oil, 182 ; harpooning, 183 ; whales in North Pacific, 32 



Whalers of Behring Sea, i. 139, 140 



Whale Sound, Greenland, iii. 233 



Whirlpools: iv. 92, 93, 95 



Whitby, iv. 256 



White, John, first governor of Virginia, ii. 2 



White, Walter: " A Sailor Boy's Log-book," i. 48 



Whitehaven attacked by Paul Jones, iii. 72 



Whitehead torpedo, ii. 155 



"White Star" Line of Steam-ships, ii. Ill 



" White Star" Liner crossing the Atlantic, iv. 1 



Whitstable oyster beds, iv. 137 



Whitworth, Sir Joseph ; big guns and armour-plates, i. 86 



Wilkes, Lieut., discovery of South Polar land, iii. 279 



Wilkius, Bishop ; submarine vessel or " ark," ii. 148 



William the Conqueror's ships, i. 266 



William III.'s Navy. i. 232 



Willoughby, Sk Hugh, his disastrous voyage, iii. 122 

 Wind in the Polar regions, iii. Ill 

 Winds in the Mediterranean, i. 107 

 Wine for sailors in the French Navy, i. 51 



Woman at Sea, iv. 56 65 



Women, Life saved by, iv. 221 



Wooden and Iron Ships compared, i. 9, 13 ; " The Fleet of the 

 Future : Iron or Wood," by J. Scott Russell, F.R.S., 85 



Wood, Sir Andrew, of Largo : his victory over English ships. 

 i. 277, 278 : commander of the " Great Michael," 281 



Wood, Rev. J. G. : sea-weeds, iv. 200, 202 



Woodcroft, Bennett, on "Steam Navigation," ii. 79, 81, 83, 84 - T 

 the screw propeller, ii. 104 



" Woolpacket," wreck of the, ii. 224 ; hovellers, 251 



Worcester, Marquis of ; his inventions : torpedoes, ii. 146 ; use 

 of steam, ii. 79 



Worden, Lieutenant, wounded in the first " Monitor," i. 24 



W r orley, Captain, the pirate, hanged, iii. 70 



Wraugell : Russian Arctic exploration, iii. 185 



Wrecks, Statistics of, i. 3 ; iv. 285 



Wreckers, ii. 304, 310 



"Wrecking," as a profession, ii. 235; the king's privileges,. 

 237 : Cceur de Lion and his enactments, ib. ; the Roles 

 d'Oleron, ib.; false pilots, ib.; laws of George II., ib.; false 

 lights, 238 ; waiting for a wreck, 241 ; wreckers at work ; 

 murders ; actual examples, 239 : wreckers executed, 240 :. 

 plunder of the "Inverness," 241, 244; police attacked by 

 thousands, 242; "Bergetta" plundered, 242; arguments of 

 wreckers, ib.; wrecking at the Bahamas, 244; " hovelling r_ 

 wrecking," 245 ; moral aspect of " wrecking," 256 



Wreck Register of the National Life-boat Institution, ii. 318 



" Wright, G. S.," telegraph steamer, i. 138, 143 



Xavier, Francis : Christianity introduced by him into Jar>au 

 i. 120 



Yarmouth, iv. 248 ; herring fishery, 250 ; shipwrecks ; loss of 



the " Osprey," 249, 250 

 Yeh, Commissioner: capture of, i. 122 

 Yellow Sea, i. 122 

 Yokohama, i. 128, 129, 130; iv. 40 

 Yorkshire : sketches of the sea-coast, iv. 251 

 Young, Captain Allen : cruise of the " Pandora, " iii. 92 98; 



"Fox" expedition in search of Franklin, 216, 218 

 Young, Brigham : Mormoiiism, iv. 2 t 

 Ysbrants: his voyage of discovery, iii. 123 

 Yukon river, i. 170 



Zeigai Islands in the Red Sea, i. 117 

 Zeui, The Brothers: their Arctic exploration, iii. 117 

 Zoology, Marine. (See Challenger, Cruise of the.) 

 Zoophytes, i. 31; iv. Ill 



