INDEX 



523 



Bracciolini, Poggio : his inter- 

 view with Nicolo de Conti, 

 50-52. 



Brasilie Regio, Brasielie Regio : 

 see Brazil. 



Brazil : coasted by Vespucci, 

 96-97 : geographers think it 

 the last coast of Cattigara-land, 

 97 : Portuguese find dye-wood 

 brazil, 99: Terra Australis 

 named Brasilie Regio in 

 Schoner's map, 98-99 ; and 

 Brasielie Regio in Finaeus's 

 map, 101, 104. 



Brosses, Charles de : his Histoire 

 des Navigations, 349, his plea 

 that France should explore and 

 colonise the South, 350-351 : 

 discusses Magellanica, 353, 

 Polynesia, 354i Australasia, 

 355 : recommends colony in 

 New Britain, 356 : explains the 

 advantages of colonisation, 357- 

 359 : proposes use of convicts, 

 358. 



Brougham, Henry Lord : his 

 Life of Banks, 385 : reports 

 Banks's description of Cook's 

 habits on board ship, 428 and 

 note. 



Brouwer, Hendrik : discovers a 

 new route to Java, 225 : proves 

 that Staten Land is an island, 

 221, 278 note. 



Brown, Macmillan : compares 

 Java to Clapham Junction, 24. 



Brown, Robert : botanist in the 

 Investigator, 503. 



Buddhists : their voyage from 

 India to Java, 24-25 : Chinese 

 Buddhists visit Java, 29. 



Byron, John : his voyage round 

 the world, 368. 



Cabot, John : his voyage in 

 search of Spice Islands, 208. 



Cabot, Sebastian : his view of the 

 South Pacific, 86 (map), 88. 



Callender, John : his Terra Aus- 

 tralis Cognita, 359-360 : he 

 recommends colonisation of 

 New Britain, 360. 



Campbell, John : editor of Har- 

 ris's Voyages (1744-8), 342 : 

 urges commercial enterprise in 

 the South Sea, 342 : his view of 

 Terra Australis Incognita, 342- 

 343, and of Terra Australia 



Cognita, 343-345 : view of New 

 Holland, 343-344 : recommen- 

 dation of New Britain, 345. 



Cano, Sebastian del : reaches the 

 Moluccas in the Victoria, 74 : 

 circumnavigates the world, 75 : 

 second passage through the 

 Straits of Magellan, 77. 



Cape Horn : rounded and named 

 by Le Maire and Schouten, 221 : 

 rounded by Dampier, 311, by 

 Roggeveen, 340 : route com- 

 mended by de Brosses, 354 : 

 rounded by Cook, 396, 471. 



Cape Keerweer : discovered 1606, 

 225 : described by Flinders, 

 225. 



Cape of the Circumcision : dis- 

 covered by Bouvet, 347 : Cook 

 fails to find it, 462, 471. 



Carstenz, Jan : voyage in the 

 Per a (1623), 238-243 : descrip- 

 tion of Cape York, land and 

 people, 241-243. 



Carteret, Philip : voyage in the 

 Swallow, 368-369 : rediscovers 

 Santa Cruz and the Solomons, 

 and discovers strait between 

 New Britain and New Ireland, 

 369 : overtaken by Bougain- 

 ville, 369, 379. 



Cathay : see China. 



Cattigara : on Ptolemy's map, 7 : 

 on map of 1489, 56, 57 : del 

 Cano fails to find it, 74 : belief 

 that Vespucci had discovered 

 eastern coast of Cattigara-land, 

 97 : Finaeus puts Cattigara in 

 Peru, 160, 101 (map). 



Cavendish, Thomas : praise of the 

 . Javans, 22 : voyage of 1586, 

 143-145 : suggests English con- 

 quest of Spice Islands, 144 : at 

 Java, 144. 



Ceylon, sometimes spelt Seilan, 

 Seylan, Sillan, Zeilan, Cayln : 

 called Taprobane, 4 : visited by 

 a Roman freedman, 4 : thought 

 by Mela to be the tip of Alter 

 Orbis, 4 : Ptolemy's conception, 

 6-7 : known by Cosmas, 8 : 

 described by Marco Polo, 36, 

 44, by Friar Odoric, 50, by de 

 Conti, 51 : its position in 

 Behaim's map, 55 ; on the map 

 of 1489, 57 ; on Fra Mauro's 

 map, 59 : Portuguese in Ceylon, 

 67 : conquered by Portuguese, 

 67 : conquered by the Dutch, 

 216. 



