INDEX 



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Permian period, 45, 51, 56 

 Peru, 6, 59, 60, 71, 78, 79, 210, 



216, 217, 228, 236 

 Peruvian Indians, 65 

 Peter Martyr, 103, 104 f., 121 f, 



209, 219, 222, 223, 228, 262, 



277 f. 

 Peterson, Johannes, 184 

 Pettersson, Hans, 33 f. 

 Pettersson, O., 168 

 Phips, Sir William, 239 f. 

 Phoenician culture, 64, 69 

 Phoenicians, 6, 64, 69, 73, 74, 



76 f., 81, 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 



95, 100, 104, 167, 206 

 Phoenix, 73 

 Physical Geography of the Sea, 



127 

 Pilgrims, 263, 264, 281, 305 

 Pillsburv, Lieutenant John ElHott, 



96f.,'l29ff., 138 

 Pinzon, Martin Alonzo, 205, 211, 



257 

 Piracy, 229, 238 ff. 

 Pizarro, 210, 217, 231, 236 

 Plankton, 54, 56, 174 ff, 184 ff, 



192 f. 

 Plankton, Age of, 175 

 Plant life, 42 f. 



Plato, 6, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 70 

 Pleistocene epoch, 70 

 Pliny, 82 



Plymouth, Eng, 182, 192, 260 

 Plymouth, Mass, 264, 265 

 Plymouth Laboratory, 191 

 Poggendorf, Annalen der Physik 



und Chemie, 133 

 Point du Raz, 65 

 Polar front, 156 

 Polar Sea, 28 

 Polaris, 77; time diagram, 115 



(illus.) 

 Polo, Marco, 205, 206, 207, 209, 



215 

 Polynesia, 78, 79 

 Polynesians, 77, 208 

 Popham, 263 



"Poor John," 263, 270 



Porcupine, 132, 176, 177 



Port Erin, 183 



Port Royal, 239, 240, 260, 264 



Porto Bello, 234, 239 



Porto Rico, 105, 162, 234 



Portugal, 1, 7, 8, 86, 91, 92, 94, 

 180, 188, 196, 201, 203, 205, 

 215, 253, 263, 274, 284, 302, 

 303; King of, 257 



Portuguese, 94 f, 102, 107, 202, 

 211, 229, 243, 246, 251, 257, 

 277; caravel, 78 (illus.) 



Poseidon, 61 



Postglacial period, 68 



Potosi, 216 



Pourtales, Louis Francois de, 177 



"Powder of sympathy," 118 



Pre-Cambrian revolution, 24 



Present State of North America, 

 The, 284 



Prester John, 92 



Primum mobile, 120 f. 



Pring, Martin, 263 



Pri^•y Council, 249 



Problem of Atlantis, The, 69 



Protestantism, 275 



Ptolemy, 84, 85, 101, 116, 204 



Puerto de la Navidad, 209 



Pytheus, 82 f, 85 



Quebec, 240, 263 

 Quetzalcoatl, 71 

 Quiche language, 225 



Rainbow, the, 128 



Rajah, the, 289 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, 235 f, 258, 



261, 262, 263, 264 

 Red Men, 73, 76 

 Red Sea, 182 

 "Red Tide," 181 

 Redfield, 193 

 Reformation, 230 

 Regimente de estrolabio e do 



quadrante, 114 

 Rehe, 143 



