780 



INDEX. 



English, expedition of to South seas, 461 



establishment in India, 409. 

 Ethiopians, 63. 

 Esquimaux, 553, 601. 

 Eudoxus, 92. 



his efforts to circumnavigate Africa, 94. 

 Exports of United States, 772. 



F. 



Falkland Islands, 453. 

 Ferdinand Magellan, 237. 



inauspicious circumstances, 240, 



in Brazil, 241. 



plot against his life, 242. 



interview with a Patagonian giant, 243. 



discovers the Philippine Islands, 248. 



wounded by a poisoned arrow and killed 

 with stones, 251. 

 Ferry-boat of old times, 454. 

 First ocean steamer, 549. 

 First steamboat, 541. 

 Fish torpedo boat, 752. 

 Ferdinand of Spain, 152. 

 Flood, 39. 



objections, 39. 



mythological testimony to, 40. 



the possibility of, 42. 



universality of, 43. 

 Florida discovered, 226. 

 French navy created, 98. 

 French in Africa, 1 29. 

 Frobisher, Martin, voyages of, 262. 



his report, 265. 

 Frozen up in Arctic regions, 584. 

 Franklin, Sir John, 577. 



fate of, 578. 



traces of, 582. 



decisive intelligence of, 592. 

 Freezing point of salt water, 729. 

 Foreign vessels, tonnage of, 772. 

 Fisheries, herring, 112. 



star-fish, 683. 



sponge, 685. 



coral, 687. 



oyster, 690. 



shark, 704. 

 Friendly Islands discovered, 371. 



visited by Cook, 371. 

 Fulton, Robert, 540. 



Ganges, 207. 

 Galleys, Venetian, 8$, 



Greek, 72. 



Ptolemy's, 75. 

 Genoa, 97. 

 Gedrosia, 89. 



Geographical science, 100. 

 Geography, of the Jews, 56. 



of the Greeks, 63. 

 Gilianez, 134. 



Giants of Canary Islands, 22. 



of Patagonia, 243. 

 Glacier of Humboldt, 600. 

 Glass beads, value of, 519. 

 Gold, search for, 168, 265. 



recovered by divers, 665. 

 Gold-dust first seen by Europeans, 135. 

 Golden Fleece, 59. 

 Gothic monuments, 100. 

 Gonzales, 132, 136. 

 Graciosa, 137. 

 Grave of the sea, 33. 

 Greeks, 58. 



their vessels, 64, 69. 

 Grappling machine, 665. 

 Great Britain discovered, 83. 

 Grinnell's expeditions, 579, 594., 

 Great Western, 573. 

 Greenland discovered, 107. 

 Grecian ships' anchors, 72. 

 Guanahani, 166. 

 Guinea, lord of, 139. 



H. 



Hanno's voyage, 79. 



captures gorillse in Africa, 80. 

 Haili, 168, 172, 176. 

 Hesiod, 66. 

 Herring fishery, 112. 

 Hercules, pillars of, 83. 

 Hudson, sails from England, 343. 



anchors off Sandy Hook, 344. 



up the Hudson river, 345. 



the fate of, 347. 

 Henry Morgan's exploits, 378. 

 Herodotus, his idea of the earth, 67. 

 Hindostan, 209. 

 Himilcon, 81. 



