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INDEX 



French, the : the story of de 

 Gonneville, 345-346 : Bouvet 

 plans a French colony in the 

 land of Gonneville, 346-347 ; 

 his voyage, 347 : the ideas 

 of Maupertuis, 348-349 : de 

 Brosses urges French explora- 

 tion and settlement, 349-359 : 

 Bougainville's voyage, 369-379 : 

 Bougainville's later plans, 458, 

 509 : Surville's voyage, 458 

 and note i : Marion's voyage, 

 458, 471 : Kerguelen's voyage, 

 458 : Laperouse's voyage, 507 

 and notes, 508 : Dentrecas- 

 teaux's voyage, 246-247, 484, 

 508-509 : Baudin's voyage, 509- 

 513, 516 : French plans for the 

 conquest of Sydney, 510 and 

 note : Terre Napoleon, 516. 



Friar Odoric : see Odoric. 



Friendly Islands : see Tonga 

 Islands. 



Furneaux, Tobias : commands the 

 Adventure in Cook's second 

 voyage, 462 : geographical mis- 

 takes in Storm Bay, 271, 464- 

 465 : discovers Furneaux Is- 

 lands, 465 : thinks there is no 

 strait between Australia and 

 Tasmania, 465 : the massacre 

 in New Zealand, 470-471. 



Gallego, Hernando : Pilot on 

 Mendana's voyage of 1567, 132 : 

 a believer in the Southern 

 Continent, 132, 134 note : claims 

 control of navigation, 133 : the 

 mistake in his calculation of 

 longitude, 148. 



Galvano, Antonio : his Discoveries 

 of the World, 61 : his account 

 of Malaysian islands, 22 : his 

 account of the island voyage of 

 1512, 68-69 : says islands were 

 seen from the Victoria under 

 the Tropic of Capricorn, 75, 83, 

 92 : wages war in the Moluccas, 

 76 : mentions discovery of 

 Japan, 76 describes Saa- 

 vedra's voyage, 78 : has no 

 knowledge of Australia, 88 

 note i. 



Gama, Vasco de : reaches India, 

 66. 



Garden of Eden : see Paradise. 



George III. : his " remarkable 

 love of science," 386 : Tahitians 



drink his health, 398 : his talk 

 with Cook, 455 : the Royal 

 Society votes him a bust, 455 : 

 saluted by Omai, 466. 



Gerritz, Hessel : his map of 1627, 

 226, 227 (map), 232, 233, 245 : 

 his map of 1618-1628, 245-246, 

 248. 



Gonneville, Sieur de : the story of 

 his voyage, 345-346 ; its in- 

 fluence on Bouvet, 346 ; and 

 on de Brosses, 351. 



Grant, James : his Narrative of a 

 Voyage of Discovery, 480, 505 

 (map) : his voyage in the Lady 

 Nelson, 503-505 : his discoveries 



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Great Kaan, the : visited by 

 Rubruquis, 31 ; by Nicolo and 

 Matteo Polo, 32 ; by Marco 

 Polo, 33 : Yule's note on the 

 word Kaan, 32 note : China 

 under the Great Kaan, 38-39 : 

 the Great Kaan and Java, 41 ; 

 and Locac, 42 ; and Java the 

 Less, 43 : Columbus hears of 

 the ships of the Gran Can, 71. 



Greek geographers : their views 

 and influence, 2. 



Green, J. R. : on the influence of 

 Francis Bacon, 305. 



Gulden Seepaart, the : discovers 

 Nuyts Land, 245-248. 



H 



Hakluyt, Richard : map pub- 

 lished in his second edition, 90, 

 and note 4, 92 and map. 



Halifax, the Earl of : President 

 of the Royal Society, 321 : 

 Dampier dedicates his journal 

 to him, 321. 



Halley, Edmund : foretells the 

 transit of Venus, 386. 



Hanno : his voyage to Sierra 

 Leone, 2. 



Hartog, Dirck : discovers the 

 land of Eendracht, 226 : dis- 

 covery marked on Gerritz 's 

 map, 226, 227 (map) : his 

 pewter dish found by Vlamingh, 

 228, and by Verster, 228-229 : 

 the pewter dish, 231. 



Hawkesworth, John : his edition 

 of Cook's first Voyage, 385 ; its 

 absurdities, 457 ; Dr. Watson 

 corrects his dates, 413 note 2. 



Hawkins, John : in Mexico, 138, 

 140. 



