INDEX 



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Heemskerk, the : Tasman's ship, 

 268, 277 (picture). 



Heeres, J. L. : value of his Part 

 borne by the Dutch, and Tasmari, 

 x : on Dutch Christianity, 224 : 

 on the character of Tasman, 

 262 : his facsimile of Tasman's 

 Journal, 268 : on the name of 

 New Zealand, 278 note : prints 

 Visscher's Chart, 279 : on Tas- 

 man's Chart of 1644, 289. 



Henry the Navigator : Crusader 

 and Searcher, 63-64 : his scien- 

 tific study of navigation, 64-65 : 

 his ships seek a way round 

 Africa, 65-66 : his death, 66. 



Herodotus : his story of a voyage 

 round Africa, 2. 



Hondius, Judicus : his map, 241. 



Hooker, John : his great drink, 

 308. 



Hooker, Sir Joseph : editor of 

 Banks's Journal, 382. 



Horrocks, Jeremiah : observes 

 the transit of Venus, 386. 



Houtman, Frederick de : dis- 

 covers part of the coast of West 

 Australia, 230 : thinks it is 

 Marco Polo's Beach, 45, 230 : 

 discovers Houtman's Abrolhos, 

 230 : discoveries marked on 

 Gerritz's map, 227 (map), 232. 



Hunter, Sir William : the Indian 

 Ocean " an outlying domain of 

 Islam," 26 : on the Portuguese 

 Empire, 66-67 : on the English 

 East India Company, 210-211 : 

 on the Dutch Republic, 212 : 

 on the Dutch East India Com- 

 pany, 214-217 ; on quarrels of 

 the Dutch and English, 217- 

 218. 



India : Alexander's expedition to, 

 3 : ancient conception of, 3-4 : 

 Cosmas's knowledge of, 8-9 : 

 Roger Bacon's conception of, 

 17 : Mookerji's description of 

 Indian voyages and colonies, 

 24-25 : Indian Buddhists 

 colonise Java, 24-25 : Marco 

 Polo's knowledge of India, 33, 

 36 : Franciscan missions in 

 India, 47 : Nicolo de Conti's 

 statements, 50-51 : Ludovico di 

 Varthema in India, 53, 68 : 

 India in the map of 1489, 56- 

 57 ; in Behaim's map, 55, 58 ; 

 in Era Mauro's map, 54-55, 59 : 



Henry the Navigator seeks an 

 ocean-way to India, 65 : Vasco 

 de Gama reaches India, 66 : 

 the Portuguese Empire in India, 

 66-67. 



Investigator, the : ship given to 

 Flinders, 502 : sails, 513 : ex- 

 plores coast of Australian Bight, 

 513 : meets Baudin, 515 : cir- 

 cumnavigates Australia, 517- 

 519. 



Isidore : his views about the 

 fabulous Antipodes, 14. 



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Japan, Cipango, Zipango : de- 

 scribed by Marco Polo, 40 : 

 sought by Columbus, 70 : he 

 thinks Hayti is Japan, 71 : 

 discovered by the Portuguese, 

 76 : Franciscan martyrs in, 80 : 

 English in, 211 and note 2 : 

 Dutch trade, 216, 223 : Jap- 

 anese suspect Dutch are 

 Christians, 223. 



Java, Javans : had Ptolemy 

 heard of islands ?, 6 : character 

 of Javans, 22 : their voyages, 

 22-23 : did they visit Australia?, 

 23 : Java the " Clapham Junc- 

 tion," 24 : Indian Buddhists 

 in, 24-25 : Arab traders in, 26 : 

 Chinese traders in, 29, 41 : 

 geographic importance of, 29- 

 30 : Marco Polo's description 

 of, 41 : he is understood to 

 describe lands South of, 42 : 

 misunderstandings, 45-46 : a 

 Franciscan description of, 48 : 

 Friar Odoric's description of, 

 48, 50 : Nicolo de Conti's 

 description of, 51-52 : Ludo- 

 vico di Varthema's description 

 of, 53 : Java in the maps of 

 Behaim, 55 ; and Fra Mauro, 

 59 : conception of Java, and 

 the beyond, 59-60 : d'Abreu 

 sails by Java, 69 : ignorance of 

 the South of Java, 83 : Barros's 

 statement, 83 ; do Couto's, 

 84 ; Linschoten's, 84, 85 (map) : 

 Java on maps, of Cabot, 86, 

 of Ribero and Reinel, 87, of 

 Rodriguez, 89, of Mercator, 

 91, of Hakluyt, 92, of 

 Schoner, 98, of Finaeus, 101, 

 of Plancius, 107, of Ortelius, 

 in, of Wytfliet, 112, on the 

 "Dauphin" Map, 114, on 



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