INDEX. 



783 



Pacific Ocean, first heard of by Balboa, 229 

 discovered, 231. 



taken possession of by Balboa, 232. 



entered by Cavendish, 290. 



a new passage to, discovered, 355 



discoveries in, 411. 

 Peter the Hermit, 97. 

 Pennsylvania on the stocks, 739. 

 Piracies, origin of, 2G7. 



on the coast of Nicaragua, 382. 



in open boats, 377 



privateering, a species of, 391. 



at Canary Islands, 410. 

 Pizarro, 24. 



Plantain, description of, 384. 



Pillars of Hercules, 79, 83. 



Phosphorescence, 198, 451. 



Ponce de Leon (Juan) discovers Florida, 226. 



Poisoned by tobacco, 467. 



Phoenician ships, 54. 



Phoenicians, 50. 



date of their maritime enterprise, SI. 



their commerce, 51, 53. 



circumnavigate Africa, 53. 



jealousy of, 53. 



end of their glory, 54. 

 Portuguese, 24. 



voyages of to Afriea, 128. 



across the equator, 139. 



under Emmanuel, 190. 



their colonies, 210. 



empire in the east, 223. 

 Printing invented, 125. 

 Privateering, 391. 

 Prodigious wbales, 89. 

 Prester John, 141. 

 Philadelphia, burning of, 537. 

 Ptolemy's galley, 74. 

 Pytheas, 22. 



his voyages, 83. 



discovers Great Britain, 83. 



his narrative, 84. 



Q. 



Queen Elizabeth, 288. 



knighting Drake, 286. 



on board the Pelican, 286. 



compared with Deborah, 294. 

 Queen Victoria's telegraphic message, 632, 648. 

 Queen, an enamored, 443. 



Quiros (Pedro de), expedition of; 337. 

 discovers Tahiti, 338. 

 his deatb, 343. 



B. 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, 299. 



beheaded, 304. 

 Red Coral, 709. 

 Red Snow, 553. 



Beturn of Columbus to Spain, 170. 



Released from the ice, 558. 



Rio Janeiro, 462. 



Robert Fulton, his birth, 540. 



no favor from Napoleon, 541. 



his first steamer, 541. 



his description of his first trip, 542. 



his monopoly of steamboating, 543. 



his rights menaced, 544. 



builds the " Fire-fly," 545. 



his death, 546. 

 Robinson Crusoe, 398. 

 Royal dance, 487. 

 Ross, Captain John, 553. 

 Ross, James Clark, 576. 

 Rhodians, their maritime power, 73. 

 Roman naval wars, 77. 



naval exhibitions, 78. 

 Roc, the fabulous, 117. 

 Rudder, invention of, 70. 



Sails of Grecian ships, 7L 



Sargasso Sea, 24, 161. 



Salt water, constitution of, 76C 



freezing point of, 729. 

 Sataspes, 81. 



voyage, 

 Sea, earliest mention of, 37. 

 Sea shore, wonders of, 30. 

 Sea lions on ice, 555. 

 Sea water, specific gravity of, 763. 

 Sesostris taught Egyptians navigation, 55. 

 Selkirk, Alexander, 398-403, 

 Scandinavian sailors, 105. 

 Sehouten (William C.) commands Dutch expe- 

 dition, 355. 

 Scylla and Charybdis, 769. 

 Ships, of Nearchus, 95. 



of the Fourteenth century, 127. 



of Columbus, 156. 



