Valetta,i. 98Valparaiso,i. 172,173Vancouver: his discoveries,iii. 319Vancouver Island: Esquimalt; Victoria,i. 163,165;Exploring Expedition,167;cedar canoes,ib.;“Chinook jargon,”ib.;Nanaimo,168Vandepat, Admiral, anecdotes of,i.218Vane, Captain Charles, the pirate,iii. 69;betrayed by a former friend, and executed,70Vanguard(Nelson’s ship),i. 105;ii. 74Vanguard, loss of the,i. 33,63–66;ii. 143Van Tromp, Admiral,ii. 31Vasco da Gama: the Cape doubled by him,i. 203;discovery of Natal,211;his first voyage to India,iii. 298;arrival at Calicut,299;second expedition,ib.;arrival at, and death in, Cochin China,300;portrait,301Vasco Nuñez, his discoveries in the Pacific,iii. 314Vasco Perez de Meira; his siege of Gibraltar,i. 91Veddahs, wild men of the woods in Ceylon,i. 119“Vega”: Professor Nordenskjöld’s Arctic voyage,iii. 274Venerable: mutiny of the Nore,i. 254Venetian ships,i. 262Venice, Breakwater at,ii. 188“Venus’s Flower-basket,”i. 30,32Verne, Jules:“Round the World in Eighty Days,”iv. 2,5Verne: citadel of the Verne, Portland,ii. 196,197Vernon, Admiral (“Old Grog”),i. 51“Vesta”(Russian) and“AssariTefvik”(Turkish) ships: action between them,i.27Victoria (Hong Kong), described by Baron Hübner,iv. 43Victoria, Vancouver Island,i. 163,165Victoria Land discovered by Sir James Ross,iii. 280Victory: Sir John Ross’s Arctic ship,iii. 186,225Victory: Queen Elizabeth’s ship,i. 292Victory: Nelson’s ship,i. 4–12,96,227Vikings: their galleys,i. 263;their Arctic voyages,iii. 115Viking ship discovered at Gokstad,iv. 230Villeneuve, Admiral of the French fleet at Trafalgar,i. 11Virgil’s“Æneid,”references to the sea,iv. 291“Virginia,”“Merrimac,”i. 19Virginia discovered by Amadas and Barlow,i. 319;named by Queen Elizabeth,ib.;colonisation of,ii.2Vogt, on theAgalma rubra,iv. 118Voices of fish,iv. 178Volante, a carriage in Havana,i. 184Volcanoes: in the Antarctic region,iii. 280;in Japan,iv. 47;in New Zealand,50;in the West Indies,i. 186;volcanic origin of Bermuda,i. 187Volunteers, Naval,i. 232–234Voluta, a univalve shell,iv. 141Wager, Commodore Anson’s ship,ii. 46,51,54“Waisters”in guard ships,i. 45Walker, Dr. David:“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216“Walnut Shell”boat, for Franklin’s second expedition,iii. 194Walrus,iii. 146,157,166;early description of it,130Walrus meat,iii. 238,240,245,263Walter, Rev. R.,“Anson’s Voyage Round the World,”ii. 46Warburton, Eliot,“The Crescent and the Cross,”i. 98;lost in the“Amazon,”ii. 283Warrior, the first English ironclad,i. 18,85;ii. 143;her engine-room,i. 225,226Warwick, the King-maker: his piracies,i. 276“Watches”and“dog-watches,”i. 50Watt, James: the steam-engine,ii. 80;portrait,97Waves off the Cape of Good Hope,iv. 89Webb, Capt. Matthew, his“Art of Swimming,”iv. 258;his wonderful feats in natation,iv. 258–266;portrait,265Weddell, Captain: voyage to the South Seas,iii. 279Weever-fish,iv. 205,206Weppner, Margharita: Falls of Niagara,iv. 15;San Francisco,30West Indian Islands, map,iii. 17West India Naval Station,i. 178West Indies: the home of the bucaniers,iii. 2Weymouth’s attempt to discover North-West Passage,iii. 143Weyprecht, Lieutenant: Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition in the“Tegethoff,”iii. 271Whales and whale-fishing,iv. 179–184;Northern and Southern whales,180,181;sperm whale, spermaceti,181,182;blubber and oil,182;harpooning,183;whales in North Pacific,32Whalers of Behring Sea,i. 139,140Whale Sound, Greenland,iii. 233Whirlpools:iv. 92,93,95Whitby,iv. 256White, John, first governor of Virginia,ii. 2White, Walter:“A Sailor Boy’s Log-book,”i. 48Whitehaven attacked by Paul Jones,iii. 72Whitehead torpedo,ii. 155“White Star”Line of Steam-ships,ii. 111“White Star”Liner crossing the Atlantic,iv. 1Whitstable oyster beds,iv. 137Whitworth, Sir Joseph; big guns and armour-plates,i. 86Wilkes, Lieut., discovery of South Polar land,iii. 279Wilkins, Bishop; submarine vessel or“ark,”ii. 148William the Conqueror’s ships,i. 266William III.’s Navy,i. 232Willoughby, Sir Hugh, his disastrous voyage,iii. 122Wind in the Polar regions,iii. 111Winds in the Mediterranean,i. 107Wine for sailors in the French Navy,i. 51Winstanley, Henry, first Eddystone Lighthouse,ii. 159,199Wolf Rock, Land’s End,iv. 210;Lighthouse,ib.Wolves, Sir John Richardson’s adventure with,iii. 189,190Woman at Sea,iv. 56–65Women, Life saved by,iv. 221Wooden and Iron Ships compared,i. 9,13;“The Fleet of the Future: Iron or Wood,”by J. Scott Russell, F.R.S.,85Wood, Sir Andrew, of Largo: his victory over English ships,i. 277,278;commander of the“Great Michael,”281Wood, Rev. J. G.: sea-weeds,iv. 200,202Woodcroft, Bennett, on“Steam Navigation,”ii. 79,81,83,84;the screw propeller,ii. 104“Woolpacket,”wreck of the,ii. 224;hovellers,251Worcester, Marquis of; his inventions: torpedoes,ii. 146;use of steam,ii. 79Worden, Lieutenant, wounded in the first“Monitor,”i. 24Worley, Captain, the pirate, hanged,iii. 70Wrangell: Russian Arctic exploration,iii. 185Wrecks, Statistics of,i. 3;iv. 285Wreckers,ii. 304,310“Wrecking,”as a profession,ii. 235;the king’s privileges,237;Cœur de Lion and his enactments,ib.;the Rôles d’Oleron,ib.;false pilots,ib.;laws of George II.,ib.;false lights,238;waiting for a wreck,241;wreckers at work; murders; actual examples,239;wreckers executed,240;plunder of the“Inverness,”241,244;police attacked by thousands,242;“Bergetta”plundered,242;arguments of wreckers,ib.;wrecking at the Bahamas,244;“hovellingv.wrecking,”245;moral aspect of“wrecking”256Wreck Register of the National Life-boat Institution,ii. 318“Wright, G. S.,”telegraph steamer,i. 138,143Xavier, Francis: Christianity introduced by him into Japan,i. 129Yarmouth,iv. 248;herring fishery,250;shipwrecks; loss of the“Osprey,”249,250Yeh, Commissioner: capture of,i. 122Yellow Sea,i. 122Yokohama,i. 128,129,130;iv. 40Yorkshire: sketches of the sea-coast,iv. 251Young, Captain Allen: cruise of the“Pandora,”iii. 92–98;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,216,218Young, Brigham: Mormonism,iv. 2–4Ysbrants: his voyage of discovery,iii. 129Yukon river,i. 170Zeigai Islands in the Red Sea,i. 117Zeni, The Brothers: their Arctic exploration,iii. 117Zoology, Marine. (SeeChallenger, Cruise of the.)Zoophytes,i. 31;iv. 111
Valetta,i. 98Valparaiso,i. 172,173Vancouver: his discoveries,iii. 319Vancouver Island: Esquimalt; Victoria,i. 163,165;Exploring Expedition,167;cedar canoes,ib.;“Chinook jargon,”ib.;Nanaimo,168Vandepat, Admiral, anecdotes of,i.218Vane, Captain Charles, the pirate,iii. 69;betrayed by a former friend, and executed,70Vanguard(Nelson’s ship),i. 105;ii. 74Vanguard, loss of the,i. 33,63–66;ii. 143Van Tromp, Admiral,ii. 31Vasco da Gama: the Cape doubled by him,i. 203;discovery of Natal,211;his first voyage to India,iii. 298;arrival at Calicut,299;second expedition,ib.;arrival at, and death in, Cochin China,300;portrait,301Vasco Nuñez, his discoveries in the Pacific,iii. 314Vasco Perez de Meira; his siege of Gibraltar,i. 91Veddahs, wild men of the woods in Ceylon,i. 119“Vega”: Professor Nordenskjöld’s Arctic voyage,iii. 274Venerable: mutiny of the Nore,i. 254Venetian ships,i. 262Venice, Breakwater at,ii. 188“Venus’s Flower-basket,”i. 30,32Verne, Jules:“Round the World in Eighty Days,”iv. 2,5Verne: citadel of the Verne, Portland,ii. 196,197Vernon, Admiral (“Old Grog”),i. 51“Vesta”(Russian) and“AssariTefvik”(Turkish) ships: action between them,i.27Victoria (Hong Kong), described by Baron Hübner,iv. 43Victoria, Vancouver Island,i. 163,165Victoria Land discovered by Sir James Ross,iii. 280Victory: Sir John Ross’s Arctic ship,iii. 186,225Victory: Queen Elizabeth’s ship,i. 292Victory: Nelson’s ship,i. 4–12,96,227Vikings: their galleys,i. 263;their Arctic voyages,iii. 115Viking ship discovered at Gokstad,iv. 230Villeneuve, Admiral of the French fleet at Trafalgar,i. 11Virgil’s“Æneid,”references to the sea,iv. 291“Virginia,”“Merrimac,”i. 19Virginia discovered by Amadas and Barlow,i. 319;named by Queen Elizabeth,ib.;colonisation of,ii.2Vogt, on theAgalma rubra,iv. 118Voices of fish,iv. 178Volante, a carriage in Havana,i. 184Volcanoes: in the Antarctic region,iii. 280;in Japan,iv. 47;in New Zealand,50;in the West Indies,i. 186;volcanic origin of Bermuda,i. 187Volunteers, Naval,i. 232–234Voluta, a univalve shell,iv. 141Wager, Commodore Anson’s ship,ii. 46,51,54“Waisters”in guard ships,i. 45Walker, Dr. David:“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216“Walnut Shell”boat, for Franklin’s second expedition,iii. 194Walrus,iii. 146,157,166;early description of it,130Walrus meat,iii. 238,240,245,263Walter, Rev. R.,“Anson’s Voyage Round the World,”ii. 46Warburton, Eliot,“The Crescent and the Cross,”i. 98;lost in the“Amazon,”ii. 283Warrior, the first English ironclad,i. 18,85;ii. 143;her engine-room,i. 225,226Warwick, the King-maker: his piracies,i. 276“Watches”and“dog-watches,”i. 50Watt, James: the steam-engine,ii. 80;portrait,97Waves off the Cape of Good Hope,iv. 89Webb, Capt. Matthew, his“Art of Swimming,”iv. 258;his wonderful feats in natation,iv. 258–266;portrait,265Weddell, Captain: voyage to the South Seas,iii. 279Weever-fish,iv. 205,206Weppner, Margharita: Falls of Niagara,iv. 15;San Francisco,30West Indian Islands, map,iii. 17West India Naval Station,i. 178West Indies: the home of the bucaniers,iii. 2Weymouth’s attempt to discover North-West Passage,iii. 143Weyprecht, Lieutenant: Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition in the“Tegethoff,”iii. 271Whales and whale-fishing,iv. 179–184;Northern and Southern whales,180,181;sperm whale, spermaceti,181,182;blubber and oil,182;harpooning,183;whales in North Pacific,32Whalers of Behring Sea,i. 139,140Whale Sound, Greenland,iii. 233Whirlpools:iv. 92,93,95Whitby,iv. 256White, John, first governor of Virginia,ii. 2White, Walter:“A Sailor Boy’s Log-book,”i. 48Whitehaven attacked by Paul Jones,iii. 72Whitehead torpedo,ii. 155“White Star”Line of Steam-ships,ii. 111“White Star”Liner crossing the Atlantic,iv. 1Whitstable oyster beds,iv. 137Whitworth, Sir Joseph; big guns and armour-plates,i. 86Wilkes, Lieut., discovery of South Polar land,iii. 279Wilkins, Bishop; submarine vessel or“ark,”ii. 148William the Conqueror’s ships,i. 266William III.’s Navy,i. 232Willoughby, Sir Hugh, his disastrous voyage,iii. 122Wind in the Polar regions,iii. 111Winds in the Mediterranean,i. 107Wine for sailors in the French Navy,i. 51Winstanley, Henry, first Eddystone Lighthouse,ii. 159,199Wolf Rock, Land’s End,iv. 210;Lighthouse,ib.Wolves, Sir John Richardson’s adventure with,iii. 189,190Woman at Sea,iv. 56–65Women, Life saved by,iv. 221Wooden and Iron Ships compared,i. 9,13;“The Fleet of the Future: Iron or Wood,”by J. Scott Russell, F.R.S.,85Wood, Sir Andrew, of Largo: his victory over English ships,i. 277,278;commander of the“Great Michael,”281Wood, Rev. J. G.: sea-weeds,iv. 200,202Woodcroft, Bennett, on“Steam Navigation,”ii. 79,81,83,84;the screw propeller,ii. 104“Woolpacket,”wreck of the,ii. 224;hovellers,251Worcester, Marquis of; his inventions: torpedoes,ii. 146;use of steam,ii. 79Worden, Lieutenant, wounded in the first“Monitor,”i. 24Worley, Captain, the pirate, hanged,iii. 70Wrangell: Russian Arctic exploration,iii. 185Wrecks, Statistics of,i. 3;iv. 285Wreckers,ii. 304,310“Wrecking,”as a profession,ii. 235;the king’s privileges,237;Cœur de Lion and his enactments,ib.;the Rôles d’Oleron,ib.;false pilots,ib.;laws of George II.,ib.;false lights,238;waiting for a wreck,241;wreckers at work; murders; actual examples,239;wreckers executed,240;plunder of the“Inverness,”241,244;police attacked by thousands,242;“Bergetta”plundered,242;arguments of wreckers,ib.;wrecking at the Bahamas,244;“hovellingv.wrecking,”245;moral aspect of“wrecking”256Wreck Register of the National Life-boat Institution,ii. 318“Wright, G. S.,”telegraph steamer,i. 138,143Xavier, Francis: Christianity introduced by him into Japan,i. 129Yarmouth,iv. 248;herring fishery,250;shipwrecks; loss of the“Osprey,”249,250Yeh, Commissioner: capture of,i. 122Yellow Sea,i. 122Yokohama,i. 128,129,130;iv. 40Yorkshire: sketches of the sea-coast,iv. 251Young, Captain Allen: cruise of the“Pandora,”iii. 92–98;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,216,218Young, Brigham: Mormonism,iv. 2–4Ysbrants: his voyage of discovery,iii. 129Yukon river,i. 170Zeigai Islands in the Red Sea,i. 117Zeni, The Brothers: their Arctic exploration,iii. 117Zoology, Marine. (SeeChallenger, Cruise of the.)Zoophytes,i. 31;iv. 111
Valetta,i. 98Valparaiso,i. 172,173Vancouver: his discoveries,iii. 319Vancouver Island: Esquimalt; Victoria,i. 163,165;Exploring Expedition,167;cedar canoes,ib.;“Chinook jargon,”ib.;Nanaimo,168Vandepat, Admiral, anecdotes of,i.218Vane, Captain Charles, the pirate,iii. 69;betrayed by a former friend, and executed,70Vanguard(Nelson’s ship),i. 105;ii. 74Vanguard, loss of the,i. 33,63–66;ii. 143Van Tromp, Admiral,ii. 31Vasco da Gama: the Cape doubled by him,i. 203;discovery of Natal,211;his first voyage to India,iii. 298;arrival at Calicut,299;second expedition,ib.;arrival at, and death in, Cochin China,300;portrait,301Vasco Nuñez, his discoveries in the Pacific,iii. 314Vasco Perez de Meira; his siege of Gibraltar,i. 91Veddahs, wild men of the woods in Ceylon,i. 119“Vega”: Professor Nordenskjöld’s Arctic voyage,iii. 274Venerable: mutiny of the Nore,i. 254Venetian ships,i. 262Venice, Breakwater at,ii. 188“Venus’s Flower-basket,”i. 30,32Verne, Jules:“Round the World in Eighty Days,”iv. 2,5Verne: citadel of the Verne, Portland,ii. 196,197Vernon, Admiral (“Old Grog”),i. 51“Vesta”(Russian) and“AssariTefvik”(Turkish) ships: action between them,i.27Victoria (Hong Kong), described by Baron Hübner,iv. 43Victoria, Vancouver Island,i. 163,165Victoria Land discovered by Sir James Ross,iii. 280Victory: Sir John Ross’s Arctic ship,iii. 186,225Victory: Queen Elizabeth’s ship,i. 292Victory: Nelson’s ship,i. 4–12,96,227Vikings: their galleys,i. 263;their Arctic voyages,iii. 115Viking ship discovered at Gokstad,iv. 230Villeneuve, Admiral of the French fleet at Trafalgar,i. 11Virgil’s“Æneid,”references to the sea,iv. 291“Virginia,”“Merrimac,”i. 19Virginia discovered by Amadas and Barlow,i. 319;named by Queen Elizabeth,ib.;colonisation of,ii.2Vogt, on theAgalma rubra,iv. 118Voices of fish,iv. 178Volante, a carriage in Havana,i. 184Volcanoes: in the Antarctic region,iii. 280;in Japan,iv. 47;in New Zealand,50;in the West Indies,i. 186;volcanic origin of Bermuda,i. 187Volunteers, Naval,i. 232–234Voluta, a univalve shell,iv. 141Wager, Commodore Anson’s ship,ii. 46,51,54“Waisters”in guard ships,i. 45Walker, Dr. David:“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216“Walnut Shell”boat, for Franklin’s second expedition,iii. 194Walrus,iii. 146,157,166;early description of it,130Walrus meat,iii. 238,240,245,263Walter, Rev. R.,“Anson’s Voyage Round the World,”ii. 46Warburton, Eliot,“The Crescent and the Cross,”i. 98;lost in the“Amazon,”ii. 283Warrior, the first English ironclad,i. 18,85;ii. 143;her engine-room,i. 225,226Warwick, the King-maker: his piracies,i. 276“Watches”and“dog-watches,”i. 50Watt, James: the steam-engine,ii. 80;portrait,97Waves off the Cape of Good Hope,iv. 89Webb, Capt. Matthew, his“Art of Swimming,”iv. 258;his wonderful feats in natation,iv. 258–266;portrait,265Weddell, Captain: voyage to the South Seas,iii. 279Weever-fish,iv. 205,206Weppner, Margharita: Falls of Niagara,iv. 15;San Francisco,30West Indian Islands, map,iii. 17West India Naval Station,i. 178West Indies: the home of the bucaniers,iii. 2Weymouth’s attempt to discover North-West Passage,iii. 143Weyprecht, Lieutenant: Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition in the“Tegethoff,”iii. 271Whales and whale-fishing,iv. 179–184;Northern and Southern whales,180,181;sperm whale, spermaceti,181,182;blubber and oil,182;harpooning,183;whales in North Pacific,32Whalers of Behring Sea,i. 139,140Whale Sound, Greenland,iii. 233Whirlpools:iv. 92,93,95Whitby,iv. 256White, John, first governor of Virginia,ii. 2White, Walter:“A Sailor Boy’s Log-book,”i. 48Whitehaven attacked by Paul Jones,iii. 72Whitehead torpedo,ii. 155“White Star”Line of Steam-ships,ii. 111“White Star”Liner crossing the Atlantic,iv. 1Whitstable oyster beds,iv. 137Whitworth, Sir Joseph; big guns and armour-plates,i. 86Wilkes, Lieut., discovery of South Polar land,iii. 279Wilkins, Bishop; submarine vessel or“ark,”ii. 148William the Conqueror’s ships,i. 266William III.’s Navy,i. 232Willoughby, Sir Hugh, his disastrous voyage,iii. 122Wind in the Polar regions,iii. 111Winds in the Mediterranean,i. 107Wine for sailors in the French Navy,i. 51Winstanley, Henry, first Eddystone Lighthouse,ii. 159,199Wolf Rock, Land’s End,iv. 210;Lighthouse,ib.Wolves, Sir John Richardson’s adventure with,iii. 189,190Woman at Sea,iv. 56–65Women, Life saved by,iv. 221Wooden and Iron Ships compared,i. 9,13;“The Fleet of the Future: Iron or Wood,”by J. Scott Russell, F.R.S.,85Wood, Sir Andrew, of Largo: his victory over English ships,i. 277,278;commander of the“Great Michael,”281Wood, Rev. J. G.: sea-weeds,iv. 200,202Woodcroft, Bennett, on“Steam Navigation,”ii. 79,81,83,84;the screw propeller,ii. 104“Woolpacket,”wreck of the,ii. 224;hovellers,251Worcester, Marquis of; his inventions: torpedoes,ii. 146;use of steam,ii. 79Worden, Lieutenant, wounded in the first“Monitor,”i. 24Worley, Captain, the pirate, hanged,iii. 70Wrangell: Russian Arctic exploration,iii. 185Wrecks, Statistics of,i. 3;iv. 285Wreckers,ii. 304,310“Wrecking,”as a profession,ii. 235;the king’s privileges,237;Cœur de Lion and his enactments,ib.;the Rôles d’Oleron,ib.;false pilots,ib.;laws of George II.,ib.;false lights,238;waiting for a wreck,241;wreckers at work; murders; actual examples,239;wreckers executed,240;plunder of the“Inverness,”241,244;police attacked by thousands,242;“Bergetta”plundered,242;arguments of wreckers,ib.;wrecking at the Bahamas,244;“hovellingv.wrecking,”245;moral aspect of“wrecking”256Wreck Register of the National Life-boat Institution,ii. 318“Wright, G. S.,”telegraph steamer,i. 138,143Xavier, Francis: Christianity introduced by him into Japan,i. 129Yarmouth,iv. 248;herring fishery,250;shipwrecks; loss of the“Osprey,”249,250Yeh, Commissioner: capture of,i. 122Yellow Sea,i. 122Yokohama,i. 128,129,130;iv. 40Yorkshire: sketches of the sea-coast,iv. 251Young, Captain Allen: cruise of the“Pandora,”iii. 92–98;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,216,218Young, Brigham: Mormonism,iv. 2–4Ysbrants: his voyage of discovery,iii. 129Yukon river,i. 170Zeigai Islands in the Red Sea,i. 117Zeni, The Brothers: their Arctic exploration,iii. 117Zoology, Marine. (SeeChallenger, Cruise of the.)Zoophytes,i. 31;iv. 111