LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS. 



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Perils of the Sea Frontispiece. 



Asiatic Deluge 18 



Hand of Satan 19 



Marvels as described by the early 



Navigators 21 



Sea Monster 23 



Stormy Petrel 30 



The First Navigator 33 



Modern Row Boat 35 



[deal Scene before the Deluge ... 38 



Destruction by the Deluge 41 



The Deluge and the Ark 45 



Noctulius Miliaris 49 



Supposed form of the ship Argo . . 58 

 The World, according to Homer. 65 

 The Earth, according to Anaxi- 



mander 66 



The Great Penguin 68 



Greek Vessel of the 6th Century . 69 



The Ptolemy Philopator 76 



Common Penguin 78 



The Sacred Promontory 82 



Plan of Pythias' Voyage 83 



Plan of the Voyage of Nearchus . 87 

 Supposed form of the ships of 



Nearchus 95 



Venetian Galley of the 10th Cen- 

 tury 96 



Wedding the Adriatic 99 



Amazons 103 



Danish vessel of the 10th Century 104 



The Northmen of America 109 



Fishing for Herrings 112 I 



Japanese Idols 115 



Japanese Grandeur 115 



Ancient Chinese Compass 119 



Chinese Junk 125 



Ship of the 14th Century 127 



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Teneriffe 128 



Cape Bojador 130 



CapeVerd 136 



Sea Swallow 138 



Christopher Columbus 143 



Colombo, the Naval Warrior. . . . 145 



Violet Asteria 152 



Head of the Merganser 153 



Imagined Monsters of unknown 



seas 155 



The Fleet of Columbus 157 



Columbus taking possession of 



Guanchani 165 



The Nina homeward bound 167 



Reception of Columbus by Ferdi- 

 nand, etc 171 



Scene in fertile Cuba 173 



Mouth of the Orinoco 176 



Columbus in chains at Cadiz. . . . 178 



Water Spout 180 



Henry VII 187 



The Phaeton 189 



Vasco da Gama 190 



Map of Africa, drawn 1497 193 



Phosphorescence 198 



Spectre of the Cape 199 



The Man overboard, and the Al- 

 batross 200 



Mozambique 204 



The San Raphael and Caraval. . . . 204 



Calicut in the 16th Century 208 



Wreck of the San Raphael 209 



Da Gama's Flag Ship 216 



Vessels employed in the Spice 



Trade in the 16th Century 219 



Ponce de Leon and the Fountain 



of Youth 225 



Balboa and the Indian 229 



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