[pg 305]GENERAL INDEX.The names of the Ships in the British Navy are printed in Italics. Those of the Mercantile Marine and foreign vessels are printed with inverted commas [“ ”].“Aaron Manby,”iron steamer,ii. 102Abbot of Arberbrothok: the bell on the Inchcape Rock,ii. 173Accumulator, the, for deep-sea sounding,i. 29,35Acephala,iv. 128Actinozoa,iv. 115Adair, Captain, killed at Trafalgar,i. 11Adams, John, a survivor of the mutiny of theBounty,i. 248,249Adams, William: his attempt to discover the North-west Passage,iii. 142Adrianson, Claes: his death at Nova Zembla,iii. 139,140“Advance,”Dr. Kane’s ship in his search for Franklin,iii. 214,233;the ship abandoned,iii. 247“Adventure,”the ship of Captain Kidd, the pirate,iii. 56,57“Adventure,”wrecked in the Tyne,ii. 210AdventureandResolution, Captain Cook’s voyage of discovery,iii. 277Africa: diamond fields,i. 210African Company: slave trade,ii. 33African Naval Station,i. 202Agalma rubra,iv. 118,120Agamemnon,i. 16;laying the first submarine Atlantic telegraph cable,iv. 101,102Agassiz, Prof.: on the sea-serpent,iv. 187,189“Aid,”steam tug, Ramsgate,ii. 215–224; iv. 246Airy, Prof. Sir G. B.: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,iv. 278–282Alaska,i. 169;Sitka, its capital,169,170;intense cold in,iii. 111,135;houses of the natives,156,157“Albemarle,”Lieut. Cushing’s attack on the,ii. 151“Albion,”lugger, hovelling,ii. 246;the lugger lost,248Alcatras Island, San Francisco,i. 157Alceste, wreck of the,i. 82,83Aldrich, Lieut. P., voyage of theAlert,iii. 102,107AlertandDiscovery: expedition to the Polar regions, highest latitude ever reached,iii. 99–114;departure of the ships from Portsmouth,65,84;theAlertdescribed,92;TheAlertin winter quarters,104Aleutian Islands,i. 169,170Alexandra, turret ship,ii. 146,147Alfonso XI., Gibraltar besieged by,i. 91Alfred the Great: his ships,i. 265Allan, Dr. John: propulsion of ships,ii. 80Almendral, or Almond Grove, Valparaiso,i. 174“Amazon,”burning of the,ii. 257,278–290Amadas, Captain, discovery of Virginia,i. 319America: its name derived from Amerigo Vespucci,iii.301;probably peopled by natives of Asia,i. 139;its colonisation,ii. 62,69;map of Central America,iii. 17“America,”Pacific steam-ship,iv. 38American Arctic expeditions. (SeeGrinnell, H.)American railways,iv. 15–20American sailors,i. 226Amerigo Vespucci, title of America derived from him,iii. 301“Amethyst,”action with the“Huascar,”i. 26Amherst, Lord: wreck of theAlceste,i. 83Ammonites,iv. 143Amroth, submerged forest at,iv. 199Amsterdam Island,iii. 257Amusements: on board ships,iv. 33,34;on American railways,27Anderson, captain of the“Great Eastern:”laying the submarine telegraph cable,iv. 108,110Anemones: sea-anemones,iv. 123,125Animal life in the Arctic regions,iii. 167,171“Ann”wrecked: loss of a life-boat,ii. 212,216Anson, Commodore, at Juan Fernandez,i. 33;portrait,ii. 45;his voyage round the world in theCenturion,45–62;at Cape Horn,49;scurvy,50;mutiny and desertion,52,53;capture of the“Carmelo,”ii. 55,56.Other prizes:capture of Paita,55;Tinian, Ladrone Islands,57;“Nostra Signora de Cadabonga,”galleon, taken,59,60,61Antarctic Ice, theChallengerin,i. 33;icebergs,35Antarctic Regions, the,iii. 276Ants on board ship,i. 222Apes at Gibraltar,i. 88,97Aquaria, their early and recent history,iv. 114Arbroath, the Bell Rock Lighthouse,ii. 174Arcachon, Bay of, its oyster-beds,iv. 137“Archimedes,”screw-propeller,ii. 103Arctic, derivation of the word,iii. 276Arctic expeditions,iii. 84–275;the first Arctic voyages,iii. 115–123;other early expeditions,123–129“Arctic,”steam ship: collision with the“Vesta,”ii. 107;foundering of the“Arctic,”108;iv. 283Argonauta, paper nautilus,iv. 150“Arizona,”Atlantic steamer,iv. 3Armada, Spanish,i. 283–291Armour plates and guns,i. 86.(SeeIron-clad ships.)Armstrong, Sir W. G.: the Armstrong guns,i. 86Arsenals established by Henry VIII.,i. 282Artillery, Marine, early history,i. 278;gunnery of war ships,i. 14Ascension, Island of,i. 200,202;abundance of turtle,202“Assari Tefvik”(Turkish) and“Vesta”(Russian) ships: action between them,i. 27Assistance, the search for Franklin,iii. 207Assyrian skin-floats and basket-boats,i. 258“Astarte,”wreck of the,iv. 243Asterias (starfish),iv. 125Astrology, modern belief in,iv. 278Astronomy and Astronomers: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Sir G. B. Airy, Astronomer-Royal, and his predecessors,iv. 278–282Atlantic Ferry, the Great: history of Transatlantic navigation,iv. 1;steerage of a steam-ship now and forty years ago,4,10–12;different routes of circumnavigation,ib.;Dickens’s first trip,3–12;dinner in a storm,9;sub-marine telegraph cables: historical notices,100Atlantic Ocean: its depth and other characteristics,i. 29;chart,iv. 88Audubon: passenger-pigeons on the Ohio,iii. 167Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights,iii. 278Austin, Captain: search for Franklin in theResolute,iii. 207;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216Australia, discovery of gold in,i. 151;voyages of Dampier and Captain Cook,ib.:Botany Bay,ib.:Possession Island,152;Port Jackson,ib.;Sydney Cove,ib.;growth of population,153;transportation and free emigration,ib.;Sydney,154;hot winds,155;Port Philip,ib.;Melbourne,ib.;Sydney,iv. 52;Melbourne: view in Collins Street,53;gold,55Australian Naval Station,i. 119,131,150Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition,iii. 270;the“Tegethoff:”two years on an ice-floe,271Avatcha Bay and Mountain,i. 131,137Avery, Captain, the pirate,iii. 59–62Avocado, or alligator-pear,i. 186Back, Captain: Arctic voyages,iii. 166,189,193,194;his voyage in theTerror;nipped in the ice,197;his address to his men on theTerror,201Back’s Great Fish River,iii. 217Baffin, William: his Arctic voyages,iii. 149Bahamas, wrecking at the,ii. 244Baker, the diver, accompanying Captain Webb in his swim across the Channel,iv. 264Ballantyne, R.M.:“The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands,”iv. 245Banks, Sir Joseph: expedition of theBounty,i. 235Baptism, ceremony of,iii. 4Baranoff, Captain: action between the“Vesta”and“Assari Tefvik,”i. 27Barbary,Pirates,ii. 42Barents, William: his voyage of discovery,iii. 129–140;his death in Nova Zembla,iii. 139,140Barlow, Captain: discovery of Virginia,i. 319Barnsfield, Edward: discovery of South Polar land,iii. 278Barrow, Sir John: Arctic exploration,iii. 162,166,169Barton, John, a Scotch pirate of the fifteenth century,i. 279Barton, Sir Andrew, defeated,i. 257Basco, Michael de, the pirate,iii. 19Bastia, siege of,i. 7Bastides, Rodrigo de: his expedition to America,iii. 303,304Bathing: Nautilus Safety Bathing Dress,iv. 262Bathing: warm or tepid baths a medium for learning to swim (SeeSwimming.)Bay of God’s Mercy,iii. 178Bayeux Tapestry: ships of William the Conqueror,i. 268Beachey Head,iv. 231;French vessel wrecked,231,233Bears in the Polar region,iii. 98,130,131,132,135,136,137,141,184,212,219,260,261,263;flesh and liver of the bear as food,138Beaumaris,ii. 305Beechey, Captain: his visit to Pitcairn’s Island,i. 249;Arctic Voyages,iii. 166,167Beechy Island,iii. 98;relics of Franklin’s last voyage,iii. 210Beeching, James: his prize life-boat,ii. 213Behring, Vitus: his monument in Petropaulovski,i. 132,135;his Arctic discoveries and death,iii. 159–162Belcher, Sir Edward, Polar Exploration,iii. 98Belemnites,iv. 143Bell, Henry: his passenger steamer,“Comet,”ii.95;his first advertisement,ib.98Bell Rock Lighthouse,ii. 172,176Bells on board ship in indicating time,i. 50Bellerophon: surrender of Napoleon,i. 212Bellinghausen: discovery of the most southern land,iii. 279,280Bellona: action with the“Courageux,”i. 228Bellot, Lieut., Monument to,iii. 97Belvedere, Kent: home for disabled and worn-out merchant seamen,iv. 273Bennett, Dr.: his“Songs for Sailors,”i. 8“Bergetta”plundered by wreckers,ii. 243Bering Sea,i. 135,137,169,170;Captain Scammon’s soundings,138Bermuda,i. 187:view from Gibbs’ Hill,188;convicts,ib.;the North Rock,189,191;potato and onion orchards,190;the floating dock,191;its voyage out,191,194Berrio: Spanish expedition to El Dorado,ii. 9Biblical allusions to the Sea,iv. 290Bideford: Avery, the pirate, living at,iii. 61Bideford Bar: wreck of theWoolpacket,ii. 224;hovellers,251“Birkenhead,”loss of the,i. 73–75;iv. 283Bishop Rock Lighthouse,ii. 269Black Beard (John Theach), the pirate,ii. 63Black Prince,i. 18;ii. 143Bladder-wrack,iv. 201Blake, Admiral,ii. 30Blenheim,i. 8Bligh, Captain: Mutiny of theBounty,i. 235;seized by the mutineers,237;cast adrift,240Blind crustacean from the Atlantic voyage of theChallenger,i. 31,32Blindness: snow blindness,iii. 182,239Blood, Rev. William, survivor of the burning of the“Amazon”: his description of it,ii. 285Blossom: Capt. Beechey’s visit to Pitcairn’s Island,i. 249Boat, ancient, found at New Stoke,iv. 230Boat improperly hung on board the“Amazon,”ii. 279Boat voyages of Behrens in the Arctic Regions,iii. 138–142;of Captain Parry,179;of Dr. Kane,251Bobadilla: his arrest and ill-treatment of Columbus,iii. 296,297,304Boers of South Africa,i. 208Bombay,i. 118Bonita, a tropical fish,iv. 176“Bonne Homme Richard”: Paul Jones’s ship,iii. 75Boobies and Noddies taken by Bligh, mutiny of theBounty,i. 243,244Books found among the relics of Franklin’s expedition,iii. 231Booth, Mr. Sheriff: Sir John Ross’s Arctic expedition fitted out by him,iii. 186;survey of Boothia Felix,187Boston (U.S.): the obnoxious tax on tea,ii. 67,68;Boston port bill; the port closed,70,71Botallack Mine, Cornwall,iv. 207,209Botany of Ceylon,i. 119;Cornwall,iv. 213,216;Juan Fernandez,i. 34;Malta,i. 99;St. Helena,i. 212;Singapore,i. 144;South Australia,i. 154;Trinidad,i. 182;West Indies,182,186,188Botany, Marine. (SeeChallenger, Cruise of the.)Botany Bay discovered,i. 151;as a convict settlement,152Bounty: History of the mutiny,i. 235–249;discovery of survivors on Pitcairn Island,247Boyle, Frederick: Cape Town,i. 204,208;diamond fields,210;ostrich farming,210Boyton, Captain Paul: his floating dress,iv. 261Brand, Mr., lost in the“Northfleet,”ii. 263,264Brande’s analysis of crimson snow,iii. 164Brasiliano, Roche, the pirate,iii. 3,14,15,16;his escape,15Brassey, Mrs.: Yokohama,iv. 40;a Japanese dinner,42;the“Sunbeam”in a gale,61;a wreck encountered,62;a ship on fire: fifteen lives saved by the“Sunbeam,”iv. 63;coral fields of the South Pacific,75Bread-fruit in Otaheite: expedition of theBounty, history of the mutiny,i. 235Breakwater: The Cherbourg Breakwater and fortifications, its origin and history,ii. 188;progress of the works,189;view,192;Plymouth Breakwater,190;Portland Breakwater,192;Holyhead,196;breakwater at Venice, view,188Brialmont on ships and forts,i. 14Bridport, Lord: mutiny at Spithead,i. 250Brierly, Oswald W., Cruise of theGalatea,i. 205Brighton,iv. 229,232Brighton Aquarium,iv. 114Brilliant: the boatswain’s mate at Trafalgar,i. 227;action with French ships,228Britannia,i.5“Britannia”training ship,i. 47“Britannia”: Dickens’s first trip to America,iv. 5British Columbia,i. 163;Cariboo Mines,ib.;cedar canoes,i. 167Britonat Pitcairn Island: survivors of the mutiny of theBounty,i. 248Brooke, G. V., lost in the“London,”ii. 294Brooklyn, New York,i. 195,198;Brooklyn Bridge,196,198Browning, Robert: his lines on passing through the Straits of Gibraltar,i. 87;his poem,“Hervé Riel,”iv. 301Brunel, J. K.: portrait,ii. 129;designs for the“Great Eastern,”130;the launch,ib.;view and description of the ship,130,133;Thames Tunnel: use of the diving-bell,iv. 85Bubble Companies: the South Sea Bubble,ii. 43Bucaniers, The,iii. 1–59;origin of the term,2Bucentaure,i. 10,11Buchan, Captain: Arctic voyage,iii. 166,167Buchanan, Captain, of the“Merrimac,”i. 20“Buenos Ayrean,”steel steam-ship,iv.3Bulkley, Colonel, at Plover Bay,i. 138,143Bullata from the Atlantic,i.32Burgoyne, Captain, lost in theCaptain,i. 55Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell: his heroism in saving life,iv. 267Byron, Lord: his references to the Sea,i.2;iv. 296;his swim across the Hellespont,iv. 257;lines on the Straits of Gibraltar,97;the bread-fruit; mutiny of theBounty,238Byron, Hon. John: wreck of theWager,ii. 51–55“Bywell Castle”: collision with the“Princess Alice,”iv. 284
[pg 305]GENERAL INDEX.The names of the Ships in the British Navy are printed in Italics. Those of the Mercantile Marine and foreign vessels are printed with inverted commas [“ ”].“Aaron Manby,”iron steamer,ii. 102Abbot of Arberbrothok: the bell on the Inchcape Rock,ii. 173Accumulator, the, for deep-sea sounding,i. 29,35Acephala,iv. 128Actinozoa,iv. 115Adair, Captain, killed at Trafalgar,i. 11Adams, John, a survivor of the mutiny of theBounty,i. 248,249Adams, William: his attempt to discover the North-west Passage,iii. 142Adrianson, Claes: his death at Nova Zembla,iii. 139,140“Advance,”Dr. Kane’s ship in his search for Franklin,iii. 214,233;the ship abandoned,iii. 247“Adventure,”the ship of Captain Kidd, the pirate,iii. 56,57“Adventure,”wrecked in the Tyne,ii. 210AdventureandResolution, Captain Cook’s voyage of discovery,iii. 277Africa: diamond fields,i. 210African Company: slave trade,ii. 33African Naval Station,i. 202Agalma rubra,iv. 118,120Agamemnon,i. 16;laying the first submarine Atlantic telegraph cable,iv. 101,102Agassiz, Prof.: on the sea-serpent,iv. 187,189“Aid,”steam tug, Ramsgate,ii. 215–224; iv. 246Airy, Prof. Sir G. B.: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,iv. 278–282Alaska,i. 169;Sitka, its capital,169,170;intense cold in,iii. 111,135;houses of the natives,156,157“Albemarle,”Lieut. Cushing’s attack on the,ii. 151“Albion,”lugger, hovelling,ii. 246;the lugger lost,248Alcatras Island, San Francisco,i. 157Alceste, wreck of the,i. 82,83Aldrich, Lieut. P., voyage of theAlert,iii. 102,107AlertandDiscovery: expedition to the Polar regions, highest latitude ever reached,iii. 99–114;departure of the ships from Portsmouth,65,84;theAlertdescribed,92;TheAlertin winter quarters,104Aleutian Islands,i. 169,170Alexandra, turret ship,ii. 146,147Alfonso XI., Gibraltar besieged by,i. 91Alfred the Great: his ships,i. 265Allan, Dr. John: propulsion of ships,ii. 80Almendral, or Almond Grove, Valparaiso,i. 174“Amazon,”burning of the,ii. 257,278–290Amadas, Captain, discovery of Virginia,i. 319America: its name derived from Amerigo Vespucci,iii.301;probably peopled by natives of Asia,i. 139;its colonisation,ii. 62,69;map of Central America,iii. 17“America,”Pacific steam-ship,iv. 38American Arctic expeditions. (SeeGrinnell, H.)American railways,iv. 15–20American sailors,i. 226Amerigo Vespucci, title of America derived from him,iii. 301“Amethyst,”action with the“Huascar,”i. 26Amherst, Lord: wreck of theAlceste,i. 83Ammonites,iv. 143Amroth, submerged forest at,iv. 199Amsterdam Island,iii. 257Amusements: on board ships,iv. 33,34;on American railways,27Anderson, captain of the“Great Eastern:”laying the submarine telegraph cable,iv. 108,110Anemones: sea-anemones,iv. 123,125Animal life in the Arctic regions,iii. 167,171“Ann”wrecked: loss of a life-boat,ii. 212,216Anson, Commodore, at Juan Fernandez,i. 33;portrait,ii. 45;his voyage round the world in theCenturion,45–62;at Cape Horn,49;scurvy,50;mutiny and desertion,52,53;capture of the“Carmelo,”ii. 55,56.Other prizes:capture of Paita,55;Tinian, Ladrone Islands,57;“Nostra Signora de Cadabonga,”galleon, taken,59,60,61Antarctic Ice, theChallengerin,i. 33;icebergs,35Antarctic Regions, the,iii. 276Ants on board ship,i. 222Apes at Gibraltar,i. 88,97Aquaria, their early and recent history,iv. 114Arbroath, the Bell Rock Lighthouse,ii. 174Arcachon, Bay of, its oyster-beds,iv. 137“Archimedes,”screw-propeller,ii. 103Arctic, derivation of the word,iii. 276Arctic expeditions,iii. 84–275;the first Arctic voyages,iii. 115–123;other early expeditions,123–129“Arctic,”steam ship: collision with the“Vesta,”ii. 107;foundering of the“Arctic,”108;iv. 283Argonauta, paper nautilus,iv. 150“Arizona,”Atlantic steamer,iv. 3Armada, Spanish,i. 283–291Armour plates and guns,i. 86.(SeeIron-clad ships.)Armstrong, Sir W. G.: the Armstrong guns,i. 86Arsenals established by Henry VIII.,i. 282Artillery, Marine, early history,i. 278;gunnery of war ships,i. 14Ascension, Island of,i. 200,202;abundance of turtle,202“Assari Tefvik”(Turkish) and“Vesta”(Russian) ships: action between them,i. 27Assistance, the search for Franklin,iii. 207Assyrian skin-floats and basket-boats,i. 258“Astarte,”wreck of the,iv. 243Asterias (starfish),iv. 125Astrology, modern belief in,iv. 278Astronomy and Astronomers: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Sir G. B. Airy, Astronomer-Royal, and his predecessors,iv. 278–282Atlantic Ferry, the Great: history of Transatlantic navigation,iv. 1;steerage of a steam-ship now and forty years ago,4,10–12;different routes of circumnavigation,ib.;Dickens’s first trip,3–12;dinner in a storm,9;sub-marine telegraph cables: historical notices,100Atlantic Ocean: its depth and other characteristics,i. 29;chart,iv. 88Audubon: passenger-pigeons on the Ohio,iii. 167Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights,iii. 278Austin, Captain: search for Franklin in theResolute,iii. 207;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216Australia, discovery of gold in,i. 151;voyages of Dampier and Captain Cook,ib.:Botany Bay,ib.:Possession Island,152;Port Jackson,ib.;Sydney Cove,ib.;growth of population,153;transportation and free emigration,ib.;Sydney,154;hot winds,155;Port Philip,ib.;Melbourne,ib.;Sydney,iv. 52;Melbourne: view in Collins Street,53;gold,55Australian Naval Station,i. 119,131,150Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition,iii. 270;the“Tegethoff:”two years on an ice-floe,271Avatcha Bay and Mountain,i. 131,137Avery, Captain, the pirate,iii. 59–62Avocado, or alligator-pear,i. 186Back, Captain: Arctic voyages,iii. 166,189,193,194;his voyage in theTerror;nipped in the ice,197;his address to his men on theTerror,201Back’s Great Fish River,iii. 217Baffin, William: his Arctic voyages,iii. 149Bahamas, wrecking at the,ii. 244Baker, the diver, accompanying Captain Webb in his swim across the Channel,iv. 264Ballantyne, R.M.:“The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands,”iv. 245Banks, Sir Joseph: expedition of theBounty,i. 235Baptism, ceremony of,iii. 4Baranoff, Captain: action between the“Vesta”and“Assari Tefvik,”i. 27Barbary,Pirates,ii. 42Barents, William: his voyage of discovery,iii. 129–140;his death in Nova Zembla,iii. 139,140Barlow, Captain: discovery of Virginia,i. 319Barnsfield, Edward: discovery of South Polar land,iii. 278Barrow, Sir John: Arctic exploration,iii. 162,166,169Barton, John, a Scotch pirate of the fifteenth century,i. 279Barton, Sir Andrew, defeated,i. 257Basco, Michael de, the pirate,iii. 19Bastia, siege of,i. 7Bastides, Rodrigo de: his expedition to America,iii. 303,304Bathing: Nautilus Safety Bathing Dress,iv. 262Bathing: warm or tepid baths a medium for learning to swim (SeeSwimming.)Bay of God’s Mercy,iii. 178Bayeux Tapestry: ships of William the Conqueror,i. 268Beachey Head,iv. 231;French vessel wrecked,231,233Bears in the Polar region,iii. 98,130,131,132,135,136,137,141,184,212,219,260,261,263;flesh and liver of the bear as food,138Beaumaris,ii. 305Beechey, Captain: his visit to Pitcairn’s Island,i. 249;Arctic Voyages,iii. 166,167Beechy Island,iii. 98;relics of Franklin’s last voyage,iii. 210Beeching, James: his prize life-boat,ii. 213Behring, Vitus: his monument in Petropaulovski,i. 132,135;his Arctic discoveries and death,iii. 159–162Belcher, Sir Edward, Polar Exploration,iii. 98Belemnites,iv. 143Bell, Henry: his passenger steamer,“Comet,”ii.95;his first advertisement,ib.98Bell Rock Lighthouse,ii. 172,176Bells on board ship in indicating time,i. 50Bellerophon: surrender of Napoleon,i. 212Bellinghausen: discovery of the most southern land,iii. 279,280Bellona: action with the“Courageux,”i. 228Bellot, Lieut., Monument to,iii. 97Belvedere, Kent: home for disabled and worn-out merchant seamen,iv. 273Bennett, Dr.: his“Songs for Sailors,”i. 8“Bergetta”plundered by wreckers,ii. 243Bering Sea,i. 135,137,169,170;Captain Scammon’s soundings,138Bermuda,i. 187:view from Gibbs’ Hill,188;convicts,ib.;the North Rock,189,191;potato and onion orchards,190;the floating dock,191;its voyage out,191,194Berrio: Spanish expedition to El Dorado,ii. 9Biblical allusions to the Sea,iv. 290Bideford: Avery, the pirate, living at,iii. 61Bideford Bar: wreck of theWoolpacket,ii. 224;hovellers,251“Birkenhead,”loss of the,i. 73–75;iv. 283Bishop Rock Lighthouse,ii. 269Black Beard (John Theach), the pirate,ii. 63Black Prince,i. 18;ii. 143Bladder-wrack,iv. 201Blake, Admiral,ii. 30Blenheim,i. 8Bligh, Captain: Mutiny of theBounty,i. 235;seized by the mutineers,237;cast adrift,240Blind crustacean from the Atlantic voyage of theChallenger,i. 31,32Blindness: snow blindness,iii. 182,239Blood, Rev. William, survivor of the burning of the“Amazon”: his description of it,ii. 285Blossom: Capt. Beechey’s visit to Pitcairn’s Island,i. 249Boat, ancient, found at New Stoke,iv. 230Boat improperly hung on board the“Amazon,”ii. 279Boat voyages of Behrens in the Arctic Regions,iii. 138–142;of Captain Parry,179;of Dr. Kane,251Bobadilla: his arrest and ill-treatment of Columbus,iii. 296,297,304Boers of South Africa,i. 208Bombay,i. 118Bonita, a tropical fish,iv. 176“Bonne Homme Richard”: Paul Jones’s ship,iii. 75Boobies and Noddies taken by Bligh, mutiny of theBounty,i. 243,244Books found among the relics of Franklin’s expedition,iii. 231Booth, Mr. Sheriff: Sir John Ross’s Arctic expedition fitted out by him,iii. 186;survey of Boothia Felix,187Boston (U.S.): the obnoxious tax on tea,ii. 67,68;Boston port bill; the port closed,70,71Botallack Mine, Cornwall,iv. 207,209Botany of Ceylon,i. 119;Cornwall,iv. 213,216;Juan Fernandez,i. 34;Malta,i. 99;St. Helena,i. 212;Singapore,i. 144;South Australia,i. 154;Trinidad,i. 182;West Indies,182,186,188Botany, Marine. (SeeChallenger, Cruise of the.)Botany Bay discovered,i. 151;as a convict settlement,152Bounty: History of the mutiny,i. 235–249;discovery of survivors on Pitcairn Island,247Boyle, Frederick: Cape Town,i. 204,208;diamond fields,210;ostrich farming,210Boyton, Captain Paul: his floating dress,iv. 261Brand, Mr., lost in the“Northfleet,”ii. 263,264Brande’s analysis of crimson snow,iii. 164Brasiliano, Roche, the pirate,iii. 3,14,15,16;his escape,15Brassey, Mrs.: Yokohama,iv. 40;a Japanese dinner,42;the“Sunbeam”in a gale,61;a wreck encountered,62;a ship on fire: fifteen lives saved by the“Sunbeam,”iv. 63;coral fields of the South Pacific,75Bread-fruit in Otaheite: expedition of theBounty, history of the mutiny,i. 235Breakwater: The Cherbourg Breakwater and fortifications, its origin and history,ii. 188;progress of the works,189;view,192;Plymouth Breakwater,190;Portland Breakwater,192;Holyhead,196;breakwater at Venice, view,188Brialmont on ships and forts,i. 14Bridport, Lord: mutiny at Spithead,i. 250Brierly, Oswald W., Cruise of theGalatea,i. 205Brighton,iv. 229,232Brighton Aquarium,iv. 114Brilliant: the boatswain’s mate at Trafalgar,i. 227;action with French ships,228Britannia,i.5“Britannia”training ship,i. 47“Britannia”: Dickens’s first trip to America,iv. 5British Columbia,i. 163;Cariboo Mines,ib.;cedar canoes,i. 167Britonat Pitcairn Island: survivors of the mutiny of theBounty,i. 248Brooke, G. V., lost in the“London,”ii. 294Brooklyn, New York,i. 195,198;Brooklyn Bridge,196,198Browning, Robert: his lines on passing through the Straits of Gibraltar,i. 87;his poem,“Hervé Riel,”iv. 301Brunel, J. K.: portrait,ii. 129;designs for the“Great Eastern,”130;the launch,ib.;view and description of the ship,130,133;Thames Tunnel: use of the diving-bell,iv. 85Bubble Companies: the South Sea Bubble,ii. 43Bucaniers, The,iii. 1–59;origin of the term,2Bucentaure,i. 10,11Buchan, Captain: Arctic voyage,iii. 166,167Buchanan, Captain, of the“Merrimac,”i. 20“Buenos Ayrean,”steel steam-ship,iv.3Bulkley, Colonel, at Plover Bay,i. 138,143Bullata from the Atlantic,i.32Burgoyne, Captain, lost in theCaptain,i. 55Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell: his heroism in saving life,iv. 267Byron, Lord: his references to the Sea,i.2;iv. 296;his swim across the Hellespont,iv. 257;lines on the Straits of Gibraltar,97;the bread-fruit; mutiny of theBounty,238Byron, Hon. John: wreck of theWager,ii. 51–55“Bywell Castle”: collision with the“Princess Alice,”iv. 284
[pg 305]GENERAL INDEX.The names of the Ships in the British Navy are printed in Italics. Those of the Mercantile Marine and foreign vessels are printed with inverted commas [“ ”].“Aaron Manby,”iron steamer,ii. 102Abbot of Arberbrothok: the bell on the Inchcape Rock,ii. 173Accumulator, the, for deep-sea sounding,i. 29,35Acephala,iv. 128Actinozoa,iv. 115Adair, Captain, killed at Trafalgar,i. 11Adams, John, a survivor of the mutiny of theBounty,i. 248,249Adams, William: his attempt to discover the North-west Passage,iii. 142Adrianson, Claes: his death at Nova Zembla,iii. 139,140“Advance,”Dr. Kane’s ship in his search for Franklin,iii. 214,233;the ship abandoned,iii. 247“Adventure,”the ship of Captain Kidd, the pirate,iii. 56,57“Adventure,”wrecked in the Tyne,ii. 210AdventureandResolution, Captain Cook’s voyage of discovery,iii. 277Africa: diamond fields,i. 210African Company: slave trade,ii. 33African Naval Station,i. 202Agalma rubra,iv. 118,120Agamemnon,i. 16;laying the first submarine Atlantic telegraph cable,iv. 101,102Agassiz, Prof.: on the sea-serpent,iv. 187,189“Aid,”steam tug, Ramsgate,ii. 215–224; iv. 246Airy, Prof. Sir G. B.: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,iv. 278–282Alaska,i. 169;Sitka, its capital,169,170;intense cold in,iii. 111,135;houses of the natives,156,157“Albemarle,”Lieut. Cushing’s attack on the,ii. 151“Albion,”lugger, hovelling,ii. 246;the lugger lost,248Alcatras Island, San Francisco,i. 157Alceste, wreck of the,i. 82,83Aldrich, Lieut. P., voyage of theAlert,iii. 102,107AlertandDiscovery: expedition to the Polar regions, highest latitude ever reached,iii. 99–114;departure of the ships from Portsmouth,65,84;theAlertdescribed,92;TheAlertin winter quarters,104Aleutian Islands,i. 169,170Alexandra, turret ship,ii. 146,147Alfonso XI., Gibraltar besieged by,i. 91Alfred the Great: his ships,i. 265Allan, Dr. John: propulsion of ships,ii. 80Almendral, or Almond Grove, Valparaiso,i. 174“Amazon,”burning of the,ii. 257,278–290Amadas, Captain, discovery of Virginia,i. 319America: its name derived from Amerigo Vespucci,iii.301;probably peopled by natives of Asia,i. 139;its colonisation,ii. 62,69;map of Central America,iii. 17“America,”Pacific steam-ship,iv. 38American Arctic expeditions. (SeeGrinnell, H.)American railways,iv. 15–20American sailors,i. 226Amerigo Vespucci, title of America derived from him,iii. 301“Amethyst,”action with the“Huascar,”i. 26Amherst, Lord: wreck of theAlceste,i. 83Ammonites,iv. 143Amroth, submerged forest at,iv. 199Amsterdam Island,iii. 257Amusements: on board ships,iv. 33,34;on American railways,27Anderson, captain of the“Great Eastern:”laying the submarine telegraph cable,iv. 108,110Anemones: sea-anemones,iv. 123,125Animal life in the Arctic regions,iii. 167,171“Ann”wrecked: loss of a life-boat,ii. 212,216Anson, Commodore, at Juan Fernandez,i. 33;portrait,ii. 45;his voyage round the world in theCenturion,45–62;at Cape Horn,49;scurvy,50;mutiny and desertion,52,53;capture of the“Carmelo,”ii. 55,56.Other prizes:capture of Paita,55;Tinian, Ladrone Islands,57;“Nostra Signora de Cadabonga,”galleon, taken,59,60,61Antarctic Ice, theChallengerin,i. 33;icebergs,35Antarctic Regions, the,iii. 276Ants on board ship,i. 222Apes at Gibraltar,i. 88,97Aquaria, their early and recent history,iv. 114Arbroath, the Bell Rock Lighthouse,ii. 174Arcachon, Bay of, its oyster-beds,iv. 137“Archimedes,”screw-propeller,ii. 103Arctic, derivation of the word,iii. 276Arctic expeditions,iii. 84–275;the first Arctic voyages,iii. 115–123;other early expeditions,123–129“Arctic,”steam ship: collision with the“Vesta,”ii. 107;foundering of the“Arctic,”108;iv. 283Argonauta, paper nautilus,iv. 150“Arizona,”Atlantic steamer,iv. 3Armada, Spanish,i. 283–291Armour plates and guns,i. 86.(SeeIron-clad ships.)Armstrong, Sir W. G.: the Armstrong guns,i. 86Arsenals established by Henry VIII.,i. 282Artillery, Marine, early history,i. 278;gunnery of war ships,i. 14Ascension, Island of,i. 200,202;abundance of turtle,202“Assari Tefvik”(Turkish) and“Vesta”(Russian) ships: action between them,i. 27Assistance, the search for Franklin,iii. 207Assyrian skin-floats and basket-boats,i. 258“Astarte,”wreck of the,iv. 243Asterias (starfish),iv. 125Astrology, modern belief in,iv. 278Astronomy and Astronomers: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Sir G. B. Airy, Astronomer-Royal, and his predecessors,iv. 278–282Atlantic Ferry, the Great: history of Transatlantic navigation,iv. 1;steerage of a steam-ship now and forty years ago,4,10–12;different routes of circumnavigation,ib.;Dickens’s first trip,3–12;dinner in a storm,9;sub-marine telegraph cables: historical notices,100Atlantic Ocean: its depth and other characteristics,i. 29;chart,iv. 88Audubon: passenger-pigeons on the Ohio,iii. 167Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights,iii. 278Austin, Captain: search for Franklin in theResolute,iii. 207;“Fox”expedition in search of Franklin,iii. 216Australia, discovery of gold in,i. 151;voyages of Dampier and Captain Cook,ib.:Botany Bay,ib.:Possession Island,152;Port Jackson,ib.;Sydney Cove,ib.;growth of population,153;transportation and free emigration,ib.;Sydney,154;hot winds,155;Port Philip,ib.;Melbourne,ib.;Sydney,iv. 52;Melbourne: view in Collins Street,53;gold,55Australian Naval Station,i. 119,131,150Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition,iii. 270;the“Tegethoff:”two years on an ice-floe,271Avatcha Bay and Mountain,i. 131,137Avery, Captain, the pirate,iii. 59–62Avocado, or alligator-pear,i. 186Back, Captain: Arctic voyages,iii. 166,189,193,194;his voyage in theTerror;nipped in the ice,197;his address to his men on theTerror,201Back’s Great Fish River,iii. 217Baffin, William: his Arctic voyages,iii. 149Bahamas, wrecking at the,ii. 244Baker, the diver, accompanying Captain Webb in his swim across the Channel,iv. 264Ballantyne, R.M.:“The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands,”iv. 245Banks, Sir Joseph: expedition of theBounty,i. 235Baptism, ceremony of,iii. 4Baranoff, Captain: action between the“Vesta”and“Assari Tefvik,”i. 27Barbary,Pirates,ii. 42Barents, William: his voyage of discovery,iii. 129–140;his death in Nova Zembla,iii. 139,140Barlow, Captain: discovery of Virginia,i. 319Barnsfield, Edward: discovery of South Polar land,iii. 278Barrow, Sir John: Arctic exploration,iii. 162,166,169Barton, John, a Scotch pirate of the fifteenth century,i. 279Barton, Sir Andrew, defeated,i. 257Basco, Michael de, the pirate,iii. 19Bastia, siege of,i. 7Bastides, Rodrigo de: his expedition to America,iii. 303,304Bathing: Nautilus Safety Bathing Dress,iv. 262Bathing: warm or tepid baths a medium for learning to swim (SeeSwimming.)Bay of God’s Mercy,iii. 178Bayeux Tapestry: ships of William the Conqueror,i. 268Beachey Head,iv. 231;French vessel wrecked,231,233Bears in the Polar region,iii. 98,130,131,132,135,136,137,141,184,212,219,260,261,263;flesh and liver of the bear as food,138Beaumaris,ii. 305Beechey, Captain: his visit to Pitcairn’s Island,i. 249;Arctic Voyages,iii. 166,167Beechy Island,iii. 98;relics of Franklin’s last voyage,iii. 210Beeching, James: his prize life-boat,ii. 213Behring, Vitus: his monument in Petropaulovski,i. 132,135;his Arctic discoveries and death,iii. 159–162Belcher, Sir Edward, Polar Exploration,iii. 98Belemnites,iv. 143Bell, Henry: his passenger steamer,“Comet,”ii.95;his first advertisement,ib.98Bell Rock Lighthouse,ii. 172,176Bells on board ship in indicating time,i. 50Bellerophon: surrender of Napoleon,i. 212Bellinghausen: discovery of the most southern land,iii. 279,280Bellona: action with the“Courageux,”i. 228Bellot, Lieut., Monument to,iii. 97Belvedere, Kent: home for disabled and worn-out merchant seamen,iv. 273Bennett, Dr.: his“Songs for Sailors,”i. 8“Bergetta”plundered by wreckers,ii. 243Bering Sea,i. 135,137,169,170;Captain Scammon’s soundings,138Bermuda,i. 187:view from Gibbs’ Hill,188;convicts,ib.;the North Rock,189,191;potato and onion orchards,190;the floating dock,191;its voyage out,191,194Berrio: Spanish expedition to El Dorado,ii. 9Biblical allusions to the Sea,iv. 290Bideford: Avery, the pirate, living at,iii. 61Bideford Bar: wreck of theWoolpacket,ii. 224;hovellers,251“Birkenhead,”loss of the,i. 73–75;iv. 283Bishop Rock Lighthouse,ii. 269Black Beard (John Theach), the pirate,ii. 63Black Prince,i. 18;ii. 143Bladder-wrack,iv. 201Blake, Admiral,ii. 30Blenheim,i. 8Bligh, Captain: Mutiny of theBounty,i. 235;seized by the mutineers,237;cast adrift,240Blind crustacean from the Atlantic voyage of theChallenger,i. 31,32Blindness: snow blindness,iii. 182,239Blood, Rev. William, survivor of the burning of the“Amazon”: his description of it,ii. 285Blossom: Capt. Beechey’s visit to Pitcairn’s Island,i. 249Boat, ancient, found at New Stoke,iv. 230Boat improperly hung on board the“Amazon,”ii. 279Boat voyages of Behrens in the Arctic Regions,iii. 138–142;of Captain Parry,179;of Dr. Kane,251Bobadilla: his arrest and ill-treatment of Columbus,iii. 296,297,304Boers of South Africa,i. 208Bombay,i. 118Bonita, a tropical fish,iv. 176“Bonne Homme Richard”: Paul Jones’s ship,iii. 75Boobies and Noddies taken by Bligh, mutiny of theBounty,i. 243,244Books found among the relics of Franklin’s expedition,iii. 231Booth, Mr. Sheriff: Sir John Ross’s Arctic expedition fitted out by him,iii. 186;survey of Boothia Felix,187Boston (U.S.): the obnoxious tax on tea,ii. 67,68;Boston port bill; the port closed,70,71Botallack Mine, Cornwall,iv. 207,209Botany of Ceylon,i. 119;Cornwall,iv. 213,216;Juan Fernandez,i. 34;Malta,i. 99;St. Helena,i. 212;Singapore,i. 144;South Australia,i. 154;Trinidad,i. 182;West Indies,182,186,188Botany, Marine. (SeeChallenger, Cruise of the.)Botany Bay discovered,i. 151;as a convict settlement,152Bounty: History of the mutiny,i. 235–249;discovery of survivors on Pitcairn Island,247Boyle, Frederick: Cape Town,i. 204,208;diamond fields,210;ostrich farming,210Boyton, Captain Paul: his floating dress,iv. 261Brand, Mr., lost in the“Northfleet,”ii. 263,264Brande’s analysis of crimson snow,iii. 164Brasiliano, Roche, the pirate,iii. 3,14,15,16;his escape,15Brassey, Mrs.: Yokohama,iv. 40;a Japanese dinner,42;the“Sunbeam”in a gale,61;a wreck encountered,62;a ship on fire: fifteen lives saved by the“Sunbeam,”iv. 63;coral fields of the South Pacific,75Bread-fruit in Otaheite: expedition of theBounty, history of the mutiny,i. 235Breakwater: The Cherbourg Breakwater and fortifications, its origin and history,ii. 188;progress of the works,189;view,192;Plymouth Breakwater,190;Portland Breakwater,192;Holyhead,196;breakwater at Venice, view,188Brialmont on ships and forts,i. 14Bridport, Lord: mutiny at Spithead,i. 250Brierly, Oswald W., Cruise of theGalatea,i. 205Brighton,iv. 229,232Brighton Aquarium,iv. 114Brilliant: the boatswain’s mate at Trafalgar,i. 227;action with French ships,228Britannia,i.5“Britannia”training ship,i. 47“Britannia”: Dickens’s first trip to America,iv. 5British Columbia,i. 163;Cariboo Mines,ib.;cedar canoes,i. 167Britonat Pitcairn Island: survivors of the mutiny of theBounty,i. 248Brooke, G. V., lost in the“London,”ii. 294Brooklyn, New York,i. 195,198;Brooklyn Bridge,196,198Browning, Robert: his lines on passing through the Straits of Gibraltar,i. 87;his poem,“Hervé Riel,”iv. 301Brunel, J. K.: portrait,ii. 129;designs for the“Great Eastern,”130;the launch,ib.;view and description of the ship,130,133;Thames Tunnel: use of the diving-bell,iv. 85Bubble Companies: the South Sea Bubble,ii. 43Bucaniers, The,iii. 1–59;origin of the term,2Bucentaure,i. 10,11Buchan, Captain: Arctic voyage,iii. 166,167Buchanan, Captain, of the“Merrimac,”i. 20“Buenos Ayrean,”steel steam-ship,iv.3Bulkley, Colonel, at Plover Bay,i. 138,143Bullata from the Atlantic,i.32Burgoyne, Captain, lost in theCaptain,i. 55Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell: his heroism in saving life,iv. 267Byron, Lord: his references to the Sea,i.2;iv. 296;his swim across the Hellespont,iv. 257;lines on the Straits of Gibraltar,97;the bread-fruit; mutiny of theBounty,238Byron, Hon. John: wreck of theWager,ii. 51–55“Bywell Castle”: collision with the“Princess Alice,”iv. 284
The names of the Ships in the British Navy are printed in Italics. Those of the Mercantile Marine and foreign vessels are printed with inverted commas [“ ”].