Galatea, Cruise of the,i. 205“Gallia,”Atlantic steamer,iv. 3“Gamo,”Spanish frigate, taken by Admiral Cochrane,i. 219Gann, John: his diving apparatus,iv. 87Garry Island: Franklin’s flag unfurled,iii. 194Gasparin, Madame de; her reminiscences of a thunderstorm,iv. 193Gasteropoda,iv. 139Gems in Ceylon,i. 119George II.’s navy,i. 232;laws against wrecking,ii. 237George IV.; Lukin’s life-boat,ii. 210Georgia, Gulf of,i. 166,167Géricault’s painting of the raft of the“Medusa,”i. 81,82German Arctic expeditions,iii. 258“Germania,”Arctic exploring ship,iii. 258,267Gerritz, Dirk, discovery of Southern Polar land,iii. 277,278Gibraltar, Siege of: red-hot shot,i. 16,17,18;view from the mainland,65;Browning’s lines on the Straits,87;history of the rock,88;sieges,ib.;view of the Neutral Ground,89;Stephens’s“History of the Place and its Sieges,”90;first taken by England,93,94;Moorish tower,93;Spanish attempts to regain the place,94,95;Sayer’s“History of Gibraltar,”95,96;the great siege,ib.;the rock described,96;monkeys,97;Morgan’s attack on,iii. 33,39Gibraltar, a town in Venezuela,iii. 20;taken by pirates,21,22,23,25Gilbert, W. S.: his operettas,iv. 303Gilbert, Sir Humphrey: colonisation and trade with America,i. 315;Queen Elizabeth’s patronage and present,315,316;voyage to Newfoundland,316;possession taken,318;Gilbert’s fate,317,319;his advocacy of the discovery of the North-west Passage,iii. 123,126Gilmore, Rev. W.:“Storm Warriors; or, Lifeboat Work,”ii. 217;hovellers and wreckers,ii. 245,247,253Girvan, Private, a diver: his submarine combat with Corporal Jones,iv. 88Glaciers,iii. 155,166Globe-fish,iv. 162,164Globigerina, from the Atlantic,i. 32Gloucester, Commodore Anson’s ship,ii. 46,50,56,57Goats in Malta,i. 99Goat Island, San Francisco,i. 157Goggles worn in Arctic exploration,iii. 110Going aloft,i. 97Gold: in Australia, discovered by Hargreaves,i. 151; iv. 55;in California,i. 158;miners’ vicissitudes,164;Cariboo mines, British Columbia,i. 163,164;search for El Dorado,ii. 4,6;Frobisher’s voyage in search of,iii. 125,126;voyages of Columbus,iii. 291,293,294,295;of Ojeda, Nino, and De Bastides,303,306;taken from Indians by Nicuesa,311;by Enisco,314Gold-washing, Ancient, at St. Domingo,iii. 293Golden State and City. (SeeCalifornia,San Francisco.)Golden Hinde: Drake’s circumnavigating ship,i. 308–314;Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s expedition,318Goodwin Sands and Life-boats,ii. 198,215;wreck of the“Samaritano,”217–223;“Violet,”224;“Fusileer,”ib.;Portuguese brig,225;other wrecks,229,230;loss of the“Effort,”247;“Albion”lugger-hovelling: the lugger lost,248,249;the sands described,ib.;map, at low water,252;rescue of“La Marguerite,”253;the Sands mentioned by Shakespeare,iv. 294Gosnold, Captain: first direct voyage to America,ii. 10Gosse, P. H.: growth of echinoderms,iv. 126;hermit crabs,154;attractions of the sea-shore,191;on the sea coast,194;enormous Medusæ,195;sea anemones,196,198;rapid influx of the tide,197;Devonshire coast scenery,199;spinous cockle,204Granada: the Moors in Spain,i. 88,90;at Gibraltar,94Great American Desert,iv. 22“Great Britain,”ii. 102“Great Eastern,”i. 13;its tonnage,232;contrasted with theGreat Harry,232,233;first and subsequent voyages,ii. 134–137;arrival at New York,136;gale off Cape Clear,128,137;its history,ib.;Brunel and Scott Russell,130;their portraits,129;view and launch of the ship,130–133;laying the Submarine Atlantic Telegraph Cable,iv. 3,102–110Great Fish River,iii. 217Great Harry,i. 275,282;contrasted with the“Great Eastern,”233Greathead’s Life-boats,ii. 209,210,211“Great Michael,”James IV. of Scotland,i. 281Great Mogul’s ship taken by Avery, the pirate,iii. 60,61“Great Queensland,”blown up,ii. 122“Great Western”steam-ship,ii. 101,106Grecian ships,i. 261Greene, Henry: his mutiny against Hudson,iii. 147;killed by natives of Labrador,148Greenland,iii. 95;its colonisation,116,117;James Hall at,143;Henry Hudson at,146;William Baffin at,149;icebergs,ib.;change in the ice-fields,162;Sir John Ross at,163;portraits of Esquimaux,172;a snow village,173,174;view of Whale Sound,233;of Cape Alexander,249Greenwich: Peter the Great and Halley,ii. 40Grinnell, H.: American expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 214;the“Advance”fitted out by him; Dr. Kane’s search for Franklin,233;Dr. Hayes’s Arctic expedition in the“United States,”iii. 255Griper: Arctic voyages,iii. 168,169,176Grippe, or mistral,i. 107Grog, Admiral Vernon (“Old Grog”): his grogram tunic,i. 51Grog on ship-board,i. 44“Grosser Kurfürst,”Loss of the,iv. 238Grylls, Lieut. R.N., a survivor of the burning of the“Amazon,”ii. 282,287,288Guadaloupe discovered by Columbus,iii. 294Guano ships,ii. 122,123Guard ships,i. 44Guiana, Raleigh’s expeditions to,ii. 8Guillemard’s“Over Land and Sea”: Honolulu, Fiji,iv. 47Gulf Stream,iv. 91Gulf Stream light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands,iv. 245Gulf of Georgia,i. 166,167Guns: gunnery of war-ships. (SeeArtillery)Guy Fawkes burnt in the Arctic regions,iii. 219“Gwenissa”wrecked near Tramore,ii. 258;Ronayne’s bravery in saving life,257–261Haddock:“Finnan haddies”; fishing in Scotland,iv. 175Hakluyt’s lines on the British navy,i. 273;on the execution of Doughtie by Drake for mutiny,307;defeat of the Spanish Armada,289;slave-trade,297;on early voyages of discovery,iii. 119Haliburton, Judge: erection and history of the town of Halifax,i. 199Halibut, or Holibut,iv. 175Halifax, Nova Scotia,i. 198;the town, harbour, lighthouses,ib.;history,199;“Blue Noses,”ib.Hall, Captain Basil, R.N.:“Life in Chili,”i. 174;electrical phenomenon at Cape Horn,176;sharks,iv. 160Hall, Captain C. F., his Arctic expedition in the“Polaris,”iii. 268;his death and funeral,268,269Hall, James: attempt to discover the North-west Passage,iii. 143,149Halley’s diving-bell,iv. 81Hamilton, Bermuda,i. 187,188Hammerhead,iv. 162Hannay, James, on wasteful expenditure in naval construction,i. 47Hanno’s voyage to Africa,i. 259“Hansa,”Arctic exploring ship,iii. 258,260;sinking of the ship,261,262;the crew in a coal-house on an ice-raft,257,260,263;breaking up of the floe,265;eight months on the ice-raft,266Hardy, Captain, at the Battle of Trafalgar,i. 10Hargreave, E. H.: his discovery of gold in Australia,i. 151,153Harpa, a univalve shell,iv. 145Harris, Corporal: his diving exploits,iv. 87Hartstene, Captain: his search for and meeting with Dr. Kane,iii. 254Harvey, Captain, of theTéméraire, at Trafalgar,i. 10Harvey, Captain: his torpedo,ii. 153,155Harwich,iv. 247,248Hastings,iv. 236;battle of Hastings,ib.Havana,i. 184;slave labour,185Hawaian Islands. (SeeSandwich Islands.)Hawkins, Sir John: the Spanish Armada,i. 284;his ships; capture of slaves,295–301;his high-handed trading,297;coat of arms,298;portrait,300;action at St. Juan de Ulloa,301Hayes, Dr.: his sufferings in Dr. Kane’s expedition,iii. 240,241;his Arctic expedition in the“United States,”iii. 255Hayti discovered by Columbus,iii. 291;its early history,205Heard Island,i. 34Hecla: Arctic voyages,iii.169,170Heemskirk, Gibraltar attacked by,i. 92Hegemann, Captain: Arctic expedition of the“Hansa,”iii. 257,259,267Héhaux, Brittany, Lighthouse,ii. 178Hemans, Mrs.: lines on shipwrecks,ii. 296;her“Casabianca,”iv.299Henri Grace de Dieu. (SeeGreat Harry.)Henry V., his fleet,i. 273Henry VII.: Acts for regulating the Navy,i. 277Henry VIII.’s navy,i. 232,273,282;royal navy first established,275;encouragement of voyages of discovery,iii. 119,120;iv. 288Hepburn, a sailor in Richardson’s Arctic expedition; his heroism,iii. 189,193Heraldsent in search of Franklin,iii. 207,211Hermit crab,iv. 154,156Hero of the Humber, John Ellerthorpe,iv. 267“Héros,”i. 7Herrings and the Herring Fishery,iv. 168–171;supposed cabalistic markings of the herring,168;mode of curing,169;fisheries of Yarmouth, Wick, and Holland,ib.;inexhaustible supplies,170,171,250Hickley, Captain, of theIron Duke: loss of theVanguard,i. 63Hiero’s floating palace,i. 260Hirst, Robert: his escape from theCaptain,i. 55,57Hispaniola discovered by Columbus,iii. 291History of the sea,i.1Hoboken, New York,i. 195Hobson, Captain W. R.:“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216,226;his discovery of a record of the expedition,226,229,230Hodder, Edwin,“Heroes of Britain in Peace and War,”iv. 267Hogg, James, the Ettrick shepherd; growth, changes, and migration of the salmon,iv. 165,166Holothuria: trepang fisheries,iv. 127,128Holyhead Breakwater,ii. 197Holystoning a ship’s deck,i. 49Home for Disabled and Worn-out Merchant Seamen, Belvedere, Kent,iv. 273Honduras discovered by Columbus,iii. 296Hong Kong,i. 119.(SeeVictoria.)Honolulu, View and account of,iv. 33,45,46Hood, Admiral Lord,i. 4,6Hood, Captain: Arctic exploration,iii. 189,193Hood, Thomas: his poem,“The Demon Ship,”iv. 303Horace: on the Sea,iv. 290,291Hore’s voyage of discovery encouraged by Henry VIII.,iii. 120Horses, Wild, at Tortuga,iii. 7Hotham, Admiral,i. 7Hovellers: at the Goodwin Sands,ii. 199;hovellingv.wrecking,245;services of hovellers,ib.;hovellers associated with wreckers,247;dangers of the hoveller’s life,249;wreck of the“Woolpacket,”251Howard of Effingham, Lord: defeat of the Spanish Armada,i. 284Howe, Admiral Lord: mutiny at Spithead,i. 250,251“Huascar”and“Shah”: action between them,i. 26Hubner, Baron: the passage from San Francisco to Japan,iv. 35–37;Yokohama,40Hudson, Henry: his Polar voyages,iii. 144,146;mutiny, cast adrift and lost,147,148;Hudson River, Bay and Strait,iii. 144,146Hudson River,i. 195;iii. 144;its discovery,146Hudson’s Bay Company and the Californian currency,i. 165,167;iii. 151,154;the search for Franklin,207Huer, or watcher, in pilchard fishing,iv. 173Hull, E. W.: his device for saving life at the wreck of the“Killarney,”ii. 315Hummocks in the Polar Seas,iii. 97,137,181Hunt, Mr. Ward: on the loss of theVanguard,i. 67Hurricanes,iv. 95Hydrozoa,iv. 115Hyères, naval fight off,i. 7Ice in the Polar Seas,iii. 99–114,125,133;formation of“young ice,”172;old and young ice,172,182,200,260;“the edge of the pack,”180;cutting ice docks,208;ice mountains,209;hummocks,181;Back’s account of the growth of ice,200Ice and snow on American railways,iv. 21,28Ice. (SeeAntarctic ice.)Icebergs,i. 35;iii. 149,155,162,166,170,197,201,218,264,265,277;an iceberg breaking up,iii. 129,133;narrow escape of Dr. Kane in the“Advance,”iii. 234Icelandic explorers of the Arctic regions,iii. 16Ice Point and Ice Haven, Nova Zembla,iii. 139,142“Impératrice:”chest of gold recovered by divers,iv. 86Inaccessible Island: rescue of two voluntary Crusoes,i. 39Ince, Henry: the sea serpent,iv. 185Inchcape Rock: bell signal,ii. 173;lighthouse,173–176Indiana,iv. 14Inflexible, turret ship: its cost,i. 231;ii. 144Infusoria: their propagation,iv. 113Ingram: his escape from theRoyal George,i. 61Inman line of steam-ships,ii. 111“Inverness,”plundered by wreckers,ii. 241,244Investigator: search for Franklin,iii. 211–213;the ship abandoned,214Ipswich,iv. 247Irish moss or Carrageen,iv. 202Iron and wooden ships,i. 9,13,84,138–146Ironclad war ships,i. 13,14,18,19,26,27,54;their cost,59,66,83,231;ii. 148;Iron DukeandVanguard,i. 63–66;circular ironclads,ii. 148;rams,155;turret ships. (SeeMonitors.)Iron steamers introduced,ii. 99,102Iron Duke: loss of theVanguard,i. 63–66Irons’s“Settler’s Guide to the Cape of Good Hope,”i. 210Isabella of Spain: Gibraltar surrendered to,i. 92.(SeeFerdinand and Isabella.)Island of Desolation,iii. 279Islands of the Pacific: Map,i. 245Isle of Wight,iv. 227Ismaïlia, on the line of the Suez Canal,i. 110,114Isthmus of Panama, Drake at the,i. 303Ivigtut: visit of the“Pandora,”iii. 95Ivory, fossil,iii. 162Jamaica: views in,i. 180,181;Kingston town and harbour,183;sugar plantations,183;Blue Mountain Peak,ib.;treasure taken by the pirate Morgan sent there,iii. 50;the island discovered by Columbus,94James II.’s Navy,i. 232;ii. 22James, Sir Henry: on the loss of theVanguard,i. 67James Town, St. Helena,i. 212Japan:i. 127–131;customs and costumes,130;election and revenue of the Tycoon,ib.;Fusiyama Mountain,129,131;a tea mart,133;Yokohama,iv. 40;a Japanese dinner,42Java,i. 144Jelly-fish,iv. 116,147Jennings, Captain Henry: a bucanier,iii. 3Jersey City, New York,i. 195Jervis, Sir John: battle of St. Vincent,i. 7,9Jessop, Josias: Smeaton’s assistant at the Eddystone Lighthouse,ii. 165,166“Jesus:”Sir John Hawkins’ ship; the slave trade,i. 299Jiddah,i. 117;view from the sea,ib.John, King: his fleet,i. 271John, King of Portugal: his patronage of Bartholomew Diaz,iii. 281Johns, Rev. C. A.:“The Loss of the Amazon,”ii. 278,288;smuggling on the Cornish coast,iv. 210;search for treasure trove,222Johnson, Dr.: on the perils of the sea,i. 42Jones, Lance-corporal: his diving exploits,iv. 88Jones, Paul, the privateer,iii. 71–78;portrait,77Juan Fernandez: Robinson Crusoe’s island,i. 33,36;ii. 50“Judith,”Sir John Hawkins’s ship,i. 299,302Junks, Chinese,i. 147–149Kalosh Indians in Alaska,i. 169,170Kalutunah, an Esquimaux,iii. 242;portrait,245Kamchatka, Kamtschatka:i. 131,135,137;orthography of the word,iii. 160;Russian expedition to,160,162Kanakas, as sailors,i. 43Kane, Dr.: his expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 230–254;portrait,236Kangaroos,i. 151“Keels”on the Tyne,i. 263Kellett, Captain: search for Franklin in theHerald,iii.207,211;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216Kempenfelt, Admiral: lost in theRoyal George,i. 60“Kent,”East Indiaman, burning of the,i. 64–74Kentish Knock Light-ship,ii. 273,274Kerguelen’s discoveries in the Southern hemisphere,iii. 277Kerguelen’s Land,i. 34Kidd, Captain Robert, the pirate,iii. 56–59;his trial and execution,58,59“Killarney,”Wreck of the,ii. 304–317;rescue of survivors,316King, Governor: his description of Australia,i. 153King crabs,iv. 152Kingman, Captain: phosphorescence of the sea,iv. 97Kingsley, Charles: on sailors; Amyas Leigh,i. 43;Trinidad, Jamaica, Havana,180,182,185,186;his“Three Fishers,”iv. 299Kingston Harbour, Jamaica,i. 181,183;the Palisades; Port Royal; town of Kingston,i. 183Kitchiner, Dr., on oysters,iv. 133Knight, John: attempt to discover the north-west passage,iii. 143;remnants of his expedition,145,153Knights of St. John of Malta,i. 98,99,101,103Knights Templars,i. 101Knock Sands,ii. 254Knowles, Captain, lost in the“Northfleet”: his bravery,ii. 263–267Knysna, Cape of Good Hope,i. 208,209Koldewey, Captain: Arctic expeditions; the“Germania”and“Hansa,”iii. 259Kondylostoma patens, a microscopic infusorian,iv. 113Kraken: sea-serpent,iv. 149.(SeeSea-serpent.)
Galatea, Cruise of the,i. 205“Gallia,”Atlantic steamer,iv. 3“Gamo,”Spanish frigate, taken by Admiral Cochrane,i. 219Gann, John: his diving apparatus,iv. 87Garry Island: Franklin’s flag unfurled,iii. 194Gasparin, Madame de; her reminiscences of a thunderstorm,iv. 193Gasteropoda,iv. 139Gems in Ceylon,i. 119George II.’s navy,i. 232;laws against wrecking,ii. 237George IV.; Lukin’s life-boat,ii. 210Georgia, Gulf of,i. 166,167Géricault’s painting of the raft of the“Medusa,”i. 81,82German Arctic expeditions,iii. 258“Germania,”Arctic exploring ship,iii. 258,267Gerritz, Dirk, discovery of Southern Polar land,iii. 277,278Gibraltar, Siege of: red-hot shot,i. 16,17,18;view from the mainland,65;Browning’s lines on the Straits,87;history of the rock,88;sieges,ib.;view of the Neutral Ground,89;Stephens’s“History of the Place and its Sieges,”90;first taken by England,93,94;Moorish tower,93;Spanish attempts to regain the place,94,95;Sayer’s“History of Gibraltar,”95,96;the great siege,ib.;the rock described,96;monkeys,97;Morgan’s attack on,iii. 33,39Gibraltar, a town in Venezuela,iii. 20;taken by pirates,21,22,23,25Gilbert, W. S.: his operettas,iv. 303Gilbert, Sir Humphrey: colonisation and trade with America,i. 315;Queen Elizabeth’s patronage and present,315,316;voyage to Newfoundland,316;possession taken,318;Gilbert’s fate,317,319;his advocacy of the discovery of the North-west Passage,iii. 123,126Gilmore, Rev. W.:“Storm Warriors; or, Lifeboat Work,”ii. 217;hovellers and wreckers,ii. 245,247,253Girvan, Private, a diver: his submarine combat with Corporal Jones,iv. 88Glaciers,iii. 155,166Globe-fish,iv. 162,164Globigerina, from the Atlantic,i. 32Gloucester, Commodore Anson’s ship,ii. 46,50,56,57Goats in Malta,i. 99Goat Island, San Francisco,i. 157Goggles worn in Arctic exploration,iii. 110Going aloft,i. 97Gold: in Australia, discovered by Hargreaves,i. 151; iv. 55;in California,i. 158;miners’ vicissitudes,164;Cariboo mines, British Columbia,i. 163,164;search for El Dorado,ii. 4,6;Frobisher’s voyage in search of,iii. 125,126;voyages of Columbus,iii. 291,293,294,295;of Ojeda, Nino, and De Bastides,303,306;taken from Indians by Nicuesa,311;by Enisco,314Gold-washing, Ancient, at St. Domingo,iii. 293Golden State and City. (SeeCalifornia,San Francisco.)Golden Hinde: Drake’s circumnavigating ship,i. 308–314;Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s expedition,318Goodwin Sands and Life-boats,ii. 198,215;wreck of the“Samaritano,”217–223;“Violet,”224;“Fusileer,”ib.;Portuguese brig,225;other wrecks,229,230;loss of the“Effort,”247;“Albion”lugger-hovelling: the lugger lost,248,249;the sands described,ib.;map, at low water,252;rescue of“La Marguerite,”253;the Sands mentioned by Shakespeare,iv. 294Gosnold, Captain: first direct voyage to America,ii. 10Gosse, P. H.: growth of echinoderms,iv. 126;hermit crabs,154;attractions of the sea-shore,191;on the sea coast,194;enormous Medusæ,195;sea anemones,196,198;rapid influx of the tide,197;Devonshire coast scenery,199;spinous cockle,204Granada: the Moors in Spain,i. 88,90;at Gibraltar,94Great American Desert,iv. 22“Great Britain,”ii. 102“Great Eastern,”i. 13;its tonnage,232;contrasted with theGreat Harry,232,233;first and subsequent voyages,ii. 134–137;arrival at New York,136;gale off Cape Clear,128,137;its history,ib.;Brunel and Scott Russell,130;their portraits,129;view and launch of the ship,130–133;laying the Submarine Atlantic Telegraph Cable,iv. 3,102–110Great Fish River,iii. 217Great Harry,i. 275,282;contrasted with the“Great Eastern,”233Greathead’s Life-boats,ii. 209,210,211“Great Michael,”James IV. of Scotland,i. 281Great Mogul’s ship taken by Avery, the pirate,iii. 60,61“Great Queensland,”blown up,ii. 122“Great Western”steam-ship,ii. 101,106Grecian ships,i. 261Greene, Henry: his mutiny against Hudson,iii. 147;killed by natives of Labrador,148Greenland,iii. 95;its colonisation,116,117;James Hall at,143;Henry Hudson at,146;William Baffin at,149;icebergs,ib.;change in the ice-fields,162;Sir John Ross at,163;portraits of Esquimaux,172;a snow village,173,174;view of Whale Sound,233;of Cape Alexander,249Greenwich: Peter the Great and Halley,ii. 40Grinnell, H.: American expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 214;the“Advance”fitted out by him; Dr. Kane’s search for Franklin,233;Dr. Hayes’s Arctic expedition in the“United States,”iii. 255Griper: Arctic voyages,iii. 168,169,176Grippe, or mistral,i. 107Grog, Admiral Vernon (“Old Grog”): his grogram tunic,i. 51Grog on ship-board,i. 44“Grosser Kurfürst,”Loss of the,iv. 238Grylls, Lieut. R.N., a survivor of the burning of the“Amazon,”ii. 282,287,288Guadaloupe discovered by Columbus,iii. 294Guano ships,ii. 122,123Guard ships,i. 44Guiana, Raleigh’s expeditions to,ii. 8Guillemard’s“Over Land and Sea”: Honolulu, Fiji,iv. 47Gulf Stream,iv. 91Gulf Stream light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands,iv. 245Gulf of Georgia,i. 166,167Guns: gunnery of war-ships. (SeeArtillery)Guy Fawkes burnt in the Arctic regions,iii. 219“Gwenissa”wrecked near Tramore,ii. 258;Ronayne’s bravery in saving life,257–261Haddock:“Finnan haddies”; fishing in Scotland,iv. 175Hakluyt’s lines on the British navy,i. 273;on the execution of Doughtie by Drake for mutiny,307;defeat of the Spanish Armada,289;slave-trade,297;on early voyages of discovery,iii. 119Haliburton, Judge: erection and history of the town of Halifax,i. 199Halibut, or Holibut,iv. 175Halifax, Nova Scotia,i. 198;the town, harbour, lighthouses,ib.;history,199;“Blue Noses,”ib.Hall, Captain Basil, R.N.:“Life in Chili,”i. 174;electrical phenomenon at Cape Horn,176;sharks,iv. 160Hall, Captain C. F., his Arctic expedition in the“Polaris,”iii. 268;his death and funeral,268,269Hall, James: attempt to discover the North-west Passage,iii. 143,149Halley’s diving-bell,iv. 81Hamilton, Bermuda,i. 187,188Hammerhead,iv. 162Hannay, James, on wasteful expenditure in naval construction,i. 47Hanno’s voyage to Africa,i. 259“Hansa,”Arctic exploring ship,iii. 258,260;sinking of the ship,261,262;the crew in a coal-house on an ice-raft,257,260,263;breaking up of the floe,265;eight months on the ice-raft,266Hardy, Captain, at the Battle of Trafalgar,i. 10Hargreave, E. H.: his discovery of gold in Australia,i. 151,153Harpa, a univalve shell,iv. 145Harris, Corporal: his diving exploits,iv. 87Hartstene, Captain: his search for and meeting with Dr. Kane,iii. 254Harvey, Captain, of theTéméraire, at Trafalgar,i. 10Harvey, Captain: his torpedo,ii. 153,155Harwich,iv. 247,248Hastings,iv. 236;battle of Hastings,ib.Havana,i. 184;slave labour,185Hawaian Islands. (SeeSandwich Islands.)Hawkins, Sir John: the Spanish Armada,i. 284;his ships; capture of slaves,295–301;his high-handed trading,297;coat of arms,298;portrait,300;action at St. Juan de Ulloa,301Hayes, Dr.: his sufferings in Dr. Kane’s expedition,iii. 240,241;his Arctic expedition in the“United States,”iii. 255Hayti discovered by Columbus,iii. 291;its early history,205Heard Island,i. 34Hecla: Arctic voyages,iii.169,170Heemskirk, Gibraltar attacked by,i. 92Hegemann, Captain: Arctic expedition of the“Hansa,”iii. 257,259,267Héhaux, Brittany, Lighthouse,ii. 178Hemans, Mrs.: lines on shipwrecks,ii. 296;her“Casabianca,”iv.299Henri Grace de Dieu. (SeeGreat Harry.)Henry V., his fleet,i. 273Henry VII.: Acts for regulating the Navy,i. 277Henry VIII.’s navy,i. 232,273,282;royal navy first established,275;encouragement of voyages of discovery,iii. 119,120;iv. 288Hepburn, a sailor in Richardson’s Arctic expedition; his heroism,iii. 189,193Heraldsent in search of Franklin,iii. 207,211Hermit crab,iv. 154,156Hero of the Humber, John Ellerthorpe,iv. 267“Héros,”i. 7Herrings and the Herring Fishery,iv. 168–171;supposed cabalistic markings of the herring,168;mode of curing,169;fisheries of Yarmouth, Wick, and Holland,ib.;inexhaustible supplies,170,171,250Hickley, Captain, of theIron Duke: loss of theVanguard,i. 63Hiero’s floating palace,i. 260Hirst, Robert: his escape from theCaptain,i. 55,57Hispaniola discovered by Columbus,iii. 291History of the sea,i.1Hoboken, New York,i. 195Hobson, Captain W. R.:“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216,226;his discovery of a record of the expedition,226,229,230Hodder, Edwin,“Heroes of Britain in Peace and War,”iv. 267Hogg, James, the Ettrick shepherd; growth, changes, and migration of the salmon,iv. 165,166Holothuria: trepang fisheries,iv. 127,128Holyhead Breakwater,ii. 197Holystoning a ship’s deck,i. 49Home for Disabled and Worn-out Merchant Seamen, Belvedere, Kent,iv. 273Honduras discovered by Columbus,iii. 296Hong Kong,i. 119.(SeeVictoria.)Honolulu, View and account of,iv. 33,45,46Hood, Admiral Lord,i. 4,6Hood, Captain: Arctic exploration,iii. 189,193Hood, Thomas: his poem,“The Demon Ship,”iv. 303Horace: on the Sea,iv. 290,291Hore’s voyage of discovery encouraged by Henry VIII.,iii. 120Horses, Wild, at Tortuga,iii. 7Hotham, Admiral,i. 7Hovellers: at the Goodwin Sands,ii. 199;hovellingv.wrecking,245;services of hovellers,ib.;hovellers associated with wreckers,247;dangers of the hoveller’s life,249;wreck of the“Woolpacket,”251Howard of Effingham, Lord: defeat of the Spanish Armada,i. 284Howe, Admiral Lord: mutiny at Spithead,i. 250,251“Huascar”and“Shah”: action between them,i. 26Hubner, Baron: the passage from San Francisco to Japan,iv. 35–37;Yokohama,40Hudson, Henry: his Polar voyages,iii. 144,146;mutiny, cast adrift and lost,147,148;Hudson River, Bay and Strait,iii. 144,146Hudson River,i. 195;iii. 144;its discovery,146Hudson’s Bay Company and the Californian currency,i. 165,167;iii. 151,154;the search for Franklin,207Huer, or watcher, in pilchard fishing,iv. 173Hull, E. W.: his device for saving life at the wreck of the“Killarney,”ii. 315Hummocks in the Polar Seas,iii. 97,137,181Hunt, Mr. Ward: on the loss of theVanguard,i. 67Hurricanes,iv. 95Hydrozoa,iv. 115Hyères, naval fight off,i. 7Ice in the Polar Seas,iii. 99–114,125,133;formation of“young ice,”172;old and young ice,172,182,200,260;“the edge of the pack,”180;cutting ice docks,208;ice mountains,209;hummocks,181;Back’s account of the growth of ice,200Ice and snow on American railways,iv. 21,28Ice. (SeeAntarctic ice.)Icebergs,i. 35;iii. 149,155,162,166,170,197,201,218,264,265,277;an iceberg breaking up,iii. 129,133;narrow escape of Dr. Kane in the“Advance,”iii. 234Icelandic explorers of the Arctic regions,iii. 16Ice Point and Ice Haven, Nova Zembla,iii. 139,142“Impératrice:”chest of gold recovered by divers,iv. 86Inaccessible Island: rescue of two voluntary Crusoes,i. 39Ince, Henry: the sea serpent,iv. 185Inchcape Rock: bell signal,ii. 173;lighthouse,173–176Indiana,iv. 14Inflexible, turret ship: its cost,i. 231;ii. 144Infusoria: their propagation,iv. 113Ingram: his escape from theRoyal George,i. 61Inman line of steam-ships,ii. 111“Inverness,”plundered by wreckers,ii. 241,244Investigator: search for Franklin,iii. 211–213;the ship abandoned,214Ipswich,iv. 247Irish moss or Carrageen,iv. 202Iron and wooden ships,i. 9,13,84,138–146Ironclad war ships,i. 13,14,18,19,26,27,54;their cost,59,66,83,231;ii. 148;Iron DukeandVanguard,i. 63–66;circular ironclads,ii. 148;rams,155;turret ships. (SeeMonitors.)Iron steamers introduced,ii. 99,102Iron Duke: loss of theVanguard,i. 63–66Irons’s“Settler’s Guide to the Cape of Good Hope,”i. 210Isabella of Spain: Gibraltar surrendered to,i. 92.(SeeFerdinand and Isabella.)Island of Desolation,iii. 279Islands of the Pacific: Map,i. 245Isle of Wight,iv. 227Ismaïlia, on the line of the Suez Canal,i. 110,114Isthmus of Panama, Drake at the,i. 303Ivigtut: visit of the“Pandora,”iii. 95Ivory, fossil,iii. 162Jamaica: views in,i. 180,181;Kingston town and harbour,183;sugar plantations,183;Blue Mountain Peak,ib.;treasure taken by the pirate Morgan sent there,iii. 50;the island discovered by Columbus,94James II.’s Navy,i. 232;ii. 22James, Sir Henry: on the loss of theVanguard,i. 67James Town, St. Helena,i. 212Japan:i. 127–131;customs and costumes,130;election and revenue of the Tycoon,ib.;Fusiyama Mountain,129,131;a tea mart,133;Yokohama,iv. 40;a Japanese dinner,42Java,i. 144Jelly-fish,iv. 116,147Jennings, Captain Henry: a bucanier,iii. 3Jersey City, New York,i. 195Jervis, Sir John: battle of St. Vincent,i. 7,9Jessop, Josias: Smeaton’s assistant at the Eddystone Lighthouse,ii. 165,166“Jesus:”Sir John Hawkins’ ship; the slave trade,i. 299Jiddah,i. 117;view from the sea,ib.John, King: his fleet,i. 271John, King of Portugal: his patronage of Bartholomew Diaz,iii. 281Johns, Rev. C. A.:“The Loss of the Amazon,”ii. 278,288;smuggling on the Cornish coast,iv. 210;search for treasure trove,222Johnson, Dr.: on the perils of the sea,i. 42Jones, Lance-corporal: his diving exploits,iv. 88Jones, Paul, the privateer,iii. 71–78;portrait,77Juan Fernandez: Robinson Crusoe’s island,i. 33,36;ii. 50“Judith,”Sir John Hawkins’s ship,i. 299,302Junks, Chinese,i. 147–149Kalosh Indians in Alaska,i. 169,170Kalutunah, an Esquimaux,iii. 242;portrait,245Kamchatka, Kamtschatka:i. 131,135,137;orthography of the word,iii. 160;Russian expedition to,160,162Kanakas, as sailors,i. 43Kane, Dr.: his expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 230–254;portrait,236Kangaroos,i. 151“Keels”on the Tyne,i. 263Kellett, Captain: search for Franklin in theHerald,iii.207,211;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216Kempenfelt, Admiral: lost in theRoyal George,i. 60“Kent,”East Indiaman, burning of the,i. 64–74Kentish Knock Light-ship,ii. 273,274Kerguelen’s discoveries in the Southern hemisphere,iii. 277Kerguelen’s Land,i. 34Kidd, Captain Robert, the pirate,iii. 56–59;his trial and execution,58,59“Killarney,”Wreck of the,ii. 304–317;rescue of survivors,316King, Governor: his description of Australia,i. 153King crabs,iv. 152Kingman, Captain: phosphorescence of the sea,iv. 97Kingsley, Charles: on sailors; Amyas Leigh,i. 43;Trinidad, Jamaica, Havana,180,182,185,186;his“Three Fishers,”iv. 299Kingston Harbour, Jamaica,i. 181,183;the Palisades; Port Royal; town of Kingston,i. 183Kitchiner, Dr., on oysters,iv. 133Knight, John: attempt to discover the north-west passage,iii. 143;remnants of his expedition,145,153Knights of St. John of Malta,i. 98,99,101,103Knights Templars,i. 101Knock Sands,ii. 254Knowles, Captain, lost in the“Northfleet”: his bravery,ii. 263–267Knysna, Cape of Good Hope,i. 208,209Koldewey, Captain: Arctic expeditions; the“Germania”and“Hansa,”iii. 259Kondylostoma patens, a microscopic infusorian,iv. 113Kraken: sea-serpent,iv. 149.(SeeSea-serpent.)
Galatea, Cruise of the,i. 205“Gallia,”Atlantic steamer,iv. 3“Gamo,”Spanish frigate, taken by Admiral Cochrane,i. 219Gann, John: his diving apparatus,iv. 87Garry Island: Franklin’s flag unfurled,iii. 194Gasparin, Madame de; her reminiscences of a thunderstorm,iv. 193Gasteropoda,iv. 139Gems in Ceylon,i. 119George II.’s navy,i. 232;laws against wrecking,ii. 237George IV.; Lukin’s life-boat,ii. 210Georgia, Gulf of,i. 166,167Géricault’s painting of the raft of the“Medusa,”i. 81,82German Arctic expeditions,iii. 258“Germania,”Arctic exploring ship,iii. 258,267Gerritz, Dirk, discovery of Southern Polar land,iii. 277,278Gibraltar, Siege of: red-hot shot,i. 16,17,18;view from the mainland,65;Browning’s lines on the Straits,87;history of the rock,88;sieges,ib.;view of the Neutral Ground,89;Stephens’s“History of the Place and its Sieges,”90;first taken by England,93,94;Moorish tower,93;Spanish attempts to regain the place,94,95;Sayer’s“History of Gibraltar,”95,96;the great siege,ib.;the rock described,96;monkeys,97;Morgan’s attack on,iii. 33,39Gibraltar, a town in Venezuela,iii. 20;taken by pirates,21,22,23,25Gilbert, W. S.: his operettas,iv. 303Gilbert, Sir Humphrey: colonisation and trade with America,i. 315;Queen Elizabeth’s patronage and present,315,316;voyage to Newfoundland,316;possession taken,318;Gilbert’s fate,317,319;his advocacy of the discovery of the North-west Passage,iii. 123,126Gilmore, Rev. W.:“Storm Warriors; or, Lifeboat Work,”ii. 217;hovellers and wreckers,ii. 245,247,253Girvan, Private, a diver: his submarine combat with Corporal Jones,iv. 88Glaciers,iii. 155,166Globe-fish,iv. 162,164Globigerina, from the Atlantic,i. 32Gloucester, Commodore Anson’s ship,ii. 46,50,56,57Goats in Malta,i. 99Goat Island, San Francisco,i. 157Goggles worn in Arctic exploration,iii. 110Going aloft,i. 97Gold: in Australia, discovered by Hargreaves,i. 151; iv. 55;in California,i. 158;miners’ vicissitudes,164;Cariboo mines, British Columbia,i. 163,164;search for El Dorado,ii. 4,6;Frobisher’s voyage in search of,iii. 125,126;voyages of Columbus,iii. 291,293,294,295;of Ojeda, Nino, and De Bastides,303,306;taken from Indians by Nicuesa,311;by Enisco,314Gold-washing, Ancient, at St. Domingo,iii. 293Golden State and City. (SeeCalifornia,San Francisco.)Golden Hinde: Drake’s circumnavigating ship,i. 308–314;Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s expedition,318Goodwin Sands and Life-boats,ii. 198,215;wreck of the“Samaritano,”217–223;“Violet,”224;“Fusileer,”ib.;Portuguese brig,225;other wrecks,229,230;loss of the“Effort,”247;“Albion”lugger-hovelling: the lugger lost,248,249;the sands described,ib.;map, at low water,252;rescue of“La Marguerite,”253;the Sands mentioned by Shakespeare,iv. 294Gosnold, Captain: first direct voyage to America,ii. 10Gosse, P. H.: growth of echinoderms,iv. 126;hermit crabs,154;attractions of the sea-shore,191;on the sea coast,194;enormous Medusæ,195;sea anemones,196,198;rapid influx of the tide,197;Devonshire coast scenery,199;spinous cockle,204Granada: the Moors in Spain,i. 88,90;at Gibraltar,94Great American Desert,iv. 22“Great Britain,”ii. 102“Great Eastern,”i. 13;its tonnage,232;contrasted with theGreat Harry,232,233;first and subsequent voyages,ii. 134–137;arrival at New York,136;gale off Cape Clear,128,137;its history,ib.;Brunel and Scott Russell,130;their portraits,129;view and launch of the ship,130–133;laying the Submarine Atlantic Telegraph Cable,iv. 3,102–110Great Fish River,iii. 217Great Harry,i. 275,282;contrasted with the“Great Eastern,”233Greathead’s Life-boats,ii. 209,210,211“Great Michael,”James IV. of Scotland,i. 281Great Mogul’s ship taken by Avery, the pirate,iii. 60,61“Great Queensland,”blown up,ii. 122“Great Western”steam-ship,ii. 101,106Grecian ships,i. 261Greene, Henry: his mutiny against Hudson,iii. 147;killed by natives of Labrador,148Greenland,iii. 95;its colonisation,116,117;James Hall at,143;Henry Hudson at,146;William Baffin at,149;icebergs,ib.;change in the ice-fields,162;Sir John Ross at,163;portraits of Esquimaux,172;a snow village,173,174;view of Whale Sound,233;of Cape Alexander,249Greenwich: Peter the Great and Halley,ii. 40Grinnell, H.: American expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 214;the“Advance”fitted out by him; Dr. Kane’s search for Franklin,233;Dr. Hayes’s Arctic expedition in the“United States,”iii. 255Griper: Arctic voyages,iii. 168,169,176Grippe, or mistral,i. 107Grog, Admiral Vernon (“Old Grog”): his grogram tunic,i. 51Grog on ship-board,i. 44“Grosser Kurfürst,”Loss of the,iv. 238Grylls, Lieut. R.N., a survivor of the burning of the“Amazon,”ii. 282,287,288Guadaloupe discovered by Columbus,iii. 294Guano ships,ii. 122,123Guard ships,i. 44Guiana, Raleigh’s expeditions to,ii. 8Guillemard’s“Over Land and Sea”: Honolulu, Fiji,iv. 47Gulf Stream,iv. 91Gulf Stream light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands,iv. 245Gulf of Georgia,i. 166,167Guns: gunnery of war-ships. (SeeArtillery)Guy Fawkes burnt in the Arctic regions,iii. 219“Gwenissa”wrecked near Tramore,ii. 258;Ronayne’s bravery in saving life,257–261Haddock:“Finnan haddies”; fishing in Scotland,iv. 175Hakluyt’s lines on the British navy,i. 273;on the execution of Doughtie by Drake for mutiny,307;defeat of the Spanish Armada,289;slave-trade,297;on early voyages of discovery,iii. 119Haliburton, Judge: erection and history of the town of Halifax,i. 199Halibut, or Holibut,iv. 175Halifax, Nova Scotia,i. 198;the town, harbour, lighthouses,ib.;history,199;“Blue Noses,”ib.Hall, Captain Basil, R.N.:“Life in Chili,”i. 174;electrical phenomenon at Cape Horn,176;sharks,iv. 160Hall, Captain C. F., his Arctic expedition in the“Polaris,”iii. 268;his death and funeral,268,269Hall, James: attempt to discover the North-west Passage,iii. 143,149Halley’s diving-bell,iv. 81Hamilton, Bermuda,i. 187,188Hammerhead,iv. 162Hannay, James, on wasteful expenditure in naval construction,i. 47Hanno’s voyage to Africa,i. 259“Hansa,”Arctic exploring ship,iii. 258,260;sinking of the ship,261,262;the crew in a coal-house on an ice-raft,257,260,263;breaking up of the floe,265;eight months on the ice-raft,266Hardy, Captain, at the Battle of Trafalgar,i. 10Hargreave, E. H.: his discovery of gold in Australia,i. 151,153Harpa, a univalve shell,iv. 145Harris, Corporal: his diving exploits,iv. 87Hartstene, Captain: his search for and meeting with Dr. Kane,iii. 254Harvey, Captain, of theTéméraire, at Trafalgar,i. 10Harvey, Captain: his torpedo,ii. 153,155Harwich,iv. 247,248Hastings,iv. 236;battle of Hastings,ib.Havana,i. 184;slave labour,185Hawaian Islands. (SeeSandwich Islands.)Hawkins, Sir John: the Spanish Armada,i. 284;his ships; capture of slaves,295–301;his high-handed trading,297;coat of arms,298;portrait,300;action at St. Juan de Ulloa,301Hayes, Dr.: his sufferings in Dr. Kane’s expedition,iii. 240,241;his Arctic expedition in the“United States,”iii. 255Hayti discovered by Columbus,iii. 291;its early history,205Heard Island,i. 34Hecla: Arctic voyages,iii.169,170Heemskirk, Gibraltar attacked by,i. 92Hegemann, Captain: Arctic expedition of the“Hansa,”iii. 257,259,267Héhaux, Brittany, Lighthouse,ii. 178Hemans, Mrs.: lines on shipwrecks,ii. 296;her“Casabianca,”iv.299Henri Grace de Dieu. (SeeGreat Harry.)Henry V., his fleet,i. 273Henry VII.: Acts for regulating the Navy,i. 277Henry VIII.’s navy,i. 232,273,282;royal navy first established,275;encouragement of voyages of discovery,iii. 119,120;iv. 288Hepburn, a sailor in Richardson’s Arctic expedition; his heroism,iii. 189,193Heraldsent in search of Franklin,iii. 207,211Hermit crab,iv. 154,156Hero of the Humber, John Ellerthorpe,iv. 267“Héros,”i. 7Herrings and the Herring Fishery,iv. 168–171;supposed cabalistic markings of the herring,168;mode of curing,169;fisheries of Yarmouth, Wick, and Holland,ib.;inexhaustible supplies,170,171,250Hickley, Captain, of theIron Duke: loss of theVanguard,i. 63Hiero’s floating palace,i. 260Hirst, Robert: his escape from theCaptain,i. 55,57Hispaniola discovered by Columbus,iii. 291History of the sea,i.1Hoboken, New York,i. 195Hobson, Captain W. R.:“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216,226;his discovery of a record of the expedition,226,229,230Hodder, Edwin,“Heroes of Britain in Peace and War,”iv. 267Hogg, James, the Ettrick shepherd; growth, changes, and migration of the salmon,iv. 165,166Holothuria: trepang fisheries,iv. 127,128Holyhead Breakwater,ii. 197Holystoning a ship’s deck,i. 49Home for Disabled and Worn-out Merchant Seamen, Belvedere, Kent,iv. 273Honduras discovered by Columbus,iii. 296Hong Kong,i. 119.(SeeVictoria.)Honolulu, View and account of,iv. 33,45,46Hood, Admiral Lord,i. 4,6Hood, Captain: Arctic exploration,iii. 189,193Hood, Thomas: his poem,“The Demon Ship,”iv. 303Horace: on the Sea,iv. 290,291Hore’s voyage of discovery encouraged by Henry VIII.,iii. 120Horses, Wild, at Tortuga,iii. 7Hotham, Admiral,i. 7Hovellers: at the Goodwin Sands,ii. 199;hovellingv.wrecking,245;services of hovellers,ib.;hovellers associated with wreckers,247;dangers of the hoveller’s life,249;wreck of the“Woolpacket,”251Howard of Effingham, Lord: defeat of the Spanish Armada,i. 284Howe, Admiral Lord: mutiny at Spithead,i. 250,251“Huascar”and“Shah”: action between them,i. 26Hubner, Baron: the passage from San Francisco to Japan,iv. 35–37;Yokohama,40Hudson, Henry: his Polar voyages,iii. 144,146;mutiny, cast adrift and lost,147,148;Hudson River, Bay and Strait,iii. 144,146Hudson River,i. 195;iii. 144;its discovery,146Hudson’s Bay Company and the Californian currency,i. 165,167;iii. 151,154;the search for Franklin,207Huer, or watcher, in pilchard fishing,iv. 173Hull, E. W.: his device for saving life at the wreck of the“Killarney,”ii. 315Hummocks in the Polar Seas,iii. 97,137,181Hunt, Mr. Ward: on the loss of theVanguard,i. 67Hurricanes,iv. 95Hydrozoa,iv. 115Hyères, naval fight off,i. 7Ice in the Polar Seas,iii. 99–114,125,133;formation of“young ice,”172;old and young ice,172,182,200,260;“the edge of the pack,”180;cutting ice docks,208;ice mountains,209;hummocks,181;Back’s account of the growth of ice,200Ice and snow on American railways,iv. 21,28Ice. (SeeAntarctic ice.)Icebergs,i. 35;iii. 149,155,162,166,170,197,201,218,264,265,277;an iceberg breaking up,iii. 129,133;narrow escape of Dr. Kane in the“Advance,”iii. 234Icelandic explorers of the Arctic regions,iii. 16Ice Point and Ice Haven, Nova Zembla,iii. 139,142“Impératrice:”chest of gold recovered by divers,iv. 86Inaccessible Island: rescue of two voluntary Crusoes,i. 39Ince, Henry: the sea serpent,iv. 185Inchcape Rock: bell signal,ii. 173;lighthouse,173–176Indiana,iv. 14Inflexible, turret ship: its cost,i. 231;ii. 144Infusoria: their propagation,iv. 113Ingram: his escape from theRoyal George,i. 61Inman line of steam-ships,ii. 111“Inverness,”plundered by wreckers,ii. 241,244Investigator: search for Franklin,iii. 211–213;the ship abandoned,214Ipswich,iv. 247Irish moss or Carrageen,iv. 202Iron and wooden ships,i. 9,13,84,138–146Ironclad war ships,i. 13,14,18,19,26,27,54;their cost,59,66,83,231;ii. 148;Iron DukeandVanguard,i. 63–66;circular ironclads,ii. 148;rams,155;turret ships. (SeeMonitors.)Iron steamers introduced,ii. 99,102Iron Duke: loss of theVanguard,i. 63–66Irons’s“Settler’s Guide to the Cape of Good Hope,”i. 210Isabella of Spain: Gibraltar surrendered to,i. 92.(SeeFerdinand and Isabella.)Island of Desolation,iii. 279Islands of the Pacific: Map,i. 245Isle of Wight,iv. 227Ismaïlia, on the line of the Suez Canal,i. 110,114Isthmus of Panama, Drake at the,i. 303Ivigtut: visit of the“Pandora,”iii. 95Ivory, fossil,iii. 162Jamaica: views in,i. 180,181;Kingston town and harbour,183;sugar plantations,183;Blue Mountain Peak,ib.;treasure taken by the pirate Morgan sent there,iii. 50;the island discovered by Columbus,94James II.’s Navy,i. 232;ii. 22James, Sir Henry: on the loss of theVanguard,i. 67James Town, St. Helena,i. 212Japan:i. 127–131;customs and costumes,130;election and revenue of the Tycoon,ib.;Fusiyama Mountain,129,131;a tea mart,133;Yokohama,iv. 40;a Japanese dinner,42Java,i. 144Jelly-fish,iv. 116,147Jennings, Captain Henry: a bucanier,iii. 3Jersey City, New York,i. 195Jervis, Sir John: battle of St. Vincent,i. 7,9Jessop, Josias: Smeaton’s assistant at the Eddystone Lighthouse,ii. 165,166“Jesus:”Sir John Hawkins’ ship; the slave trade,i. 299Jiddah,i. 117;view from the sea,ib.John, King: his fleet,i. 271John, King of Portugal: his patronage of Bartholomew Diaz,iii. 281Johns, Rev. C. A.:“The Loss of the Amazon,”ii. 278,288;smuggling on the Cornish coast,iv. 210;search for treasure trove,222Johnson, Dr.: on the perils of the sea,i. 42Jones, Lance-corporal: his diving exploits,iv. 88Jones, Paul, the privateer,iii. 71–78;portrait,77Juan Fernandez: Robinson Crusoe’s island,i. 33,36;ii. 50“Judith,”Sir John Hawkins’s ship,i. 299,302Junks, Chinese,i. 147–149Kalosh Indians in Alaska,i. 169,170Kalutunah, an Esquimaux,iii. 242;portrait,245Kamchatka, Kamtschatka:i. 131,135,137;orthography of the word,iii. 160;Russian expedition to,160,162Kanakas, as sailors,i. 43Kane, Dr.: his expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 230–254;portrait,236Kangaroos,i. 151“Keels”on the Tyne,i. 263Kellett, Captain: search for Franklin in theHerald,iii.207,211;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216Kempenfelt, Admiral: lost in theRoyal George,i. 60“Kent,”East Indiaman, burning of the,i. 64–74Kentish Knock Light-ship,ii. 273,274Kerguelen’s discoveries in the Southern hemisphere,iii. 277Kerguelen’s Land,i. 34Kidd, Captain Robert, the pirate,iii. 56–59;his trial and execution,58,59“Killarney,”Wreck of the,ii. 304–317;rescue of survivors,316King, Governor: his description of Australia,i. 153King crabs,iv. 152Kingman, Captain: phosphorescence of the sea,iv. 97Kingsley, Charles: on sailors; Amyas Leigh,i. 43;Trinidad, Jamaica, Havana,180,182,185,186;his“Three Fishers,”iv. 299Kingston Harbour, Jamaica,i. 181,183;the Palisades; Port Royal; town of Kingston,i. 183Kitchiner, Dr., on oysters,iv. 133Knight, John: attempt to discover the north-west passage,iii. 143;remnants of his expedition,145,153Knights of St. John of Malta,i. 98,99,101,103Knights Templars,i. 101Knock Sands,ii. 254Knowles, Captain, lost in the“Northfleet”: his bravery,ii. 263–267Knysna, Cape of Good Hope,i. 208,209Koldewey, Captain: Arctic expeditions; the“Germania”and“Hansa,”iii. 259Kondylostoma patens, a microscopic infusorian,iv. 113Kraken: sea-serpent,iv. 149.(SeeSea-serpent.)