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INDEX. 



Sabine, Captain, the astronomer, 562. 

 Sandwich Islands named by Cook, 497. 

 Savannah, the steamer launched Aug., 1818, 548. 

 Ship3, of war, 288. 



Grecian, 69-73. 

 Shark fisheries, 704. 

 Shark, hammer head, 408. 

 Shipping, magnitude of, 773. 

 Smith Strait carefully examined, 554. 

 Signs of land, 163. 

 Sir Walter Raleigh, 297. 



his death, 304. 

 Sidon, the commerce of, 51. 

 Silver in the sea, T64. 

 Simoda opened to American trade, 591. 

 Sinbad the sailor, 1 17. 

 Sirius, the British steamer, 550. 

 Sirius and Great Western enter New York, 573. 

 Society Islands, Cook plants a pineapple and 



melon-seeds, 496. 

 Society of natural history, action regarding 



Laperouse, 520. 

 Sounding machine, 721, 723. 

 South America discovered, 175. 

 South Pole expedition, 576. 

 South Sea bubble, 406. 

 Spanish, expeditions of, 24. 



their discoveries, 226. 



voyages, 239. 

 Sponge fisheries, 685. 



varieties, 685. 

 Spherical form of the earth, early belief in, 67. 

 Speedwell, the, 362. 

 Spectre of the cape, legend of, 197. 

 Sperm whale, encounter with, 563. 

 Spitzbergen reached by Parry, 564. 

 St. Elias, Mount, seen by Laperouse,. 515. 

 St. Helena discovered, 215. 

 Strait of Magellan discovered, 242*. 

 Star fish, 683. 

 Steam ferry boat, 545. 

 Steam propeller, 517. 

 Sumatra visited, 116. 

 Symplegades, tradition of, 60. 

 Submarine hydrostat, 654. 



T. 



Tahiti to Timor, journey of Bligh and his com- 

 panions, 526. 



Tahitian, Omai, the young, 495. 

 Tasman, Captain Abel Jansen, 370. 

 Tasmania, discovery of, 370. 

 Terra Del Fuego, 524. 

 Terroboo, king of Owhyhee, 504. 

 Terror, the celebrated ship, 573. 



at the South Pole, 576. 

 Teneriffe, Spaniards at, 129. 



Columbus passes, 1 60. 

 The earth, according to Hesiod, 66, 



to Anaximander, 67. 

 Themistocles, 73. 

 The Ptolemy Philopator, 76. 

 The Veneti, early traders, 97. 

 Thorfinn, a Northman discoverer, 111. 

 The New World named, 184. 

 The first steamboat, 540. 

 Tides, 705. 



Tidore, the spice trade at, 254. 

 Tierra De Natal, 201. 

 Timor, destiny of Bligh, 526. 

 Tin-clads, 747. 

 Torpedoes, 751. 



explosion of, 751. 

 Torpedo boats, 752. 

 Torpedo war, Fulton's book, 541. 

 Trojan wars, 61. 



Trade winds, experienced by Columbus, 16L 

 Trent and Dorothea, sailed in 1818, 555. 

 Tribute paid to Cook, 503. 

 Tripoli, war declared by Jefferson, 536. 

 Tucopia, tidings of Laperouse, 521. 

 Turtle, catching, 404. 



TJ. 



Ulysses in Sicily, 64. 

 Ultima Thule, origin of name, 84. 

 United States exploring expedition, 575. 

 Upernavik, oil boat seen, 603. 



V 



Valparaiso, 277, 350. 



Vancouver, Lieutenant George, 532. 



his death and extent of labors, 535. 

 Van Dieman's land, Cook arrives, 495. 

 Vanikoro, supposed fate of Laperouse, 523. 

 Vasco Nunez de Balboa, 227. 



discovers the Pacific Ocean, 231. 



takes possession of the Pacific, 233. 



beheaded, 235. 



