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The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4

Chapter 29: GENERAL INDEX.
By Frederick Whymper
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This work gathers illustrated essays on maritime and long-distance travel, charting the rise of steamship services, the contrast between first-class comfort and steerage hardship, and the technical and seasonal challenges of ocean passages. It outlines intercontinental connections including transcontinental rail links and Pacific crossings, and sketches major ports and colonial entrepôts encountered by voyagers. Vivid anecdotes and descriptive scenes convey shipboard life, onboard entertainments, and dangers such as cyclones and hurricanes, alongside practical commentary on safety and emigrant accommodations. Chapters combine travel impressions, historical notes on shipping and navigation, and observations about the social and mechanical changes reshaping global passage.

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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. 102
Abbot of Arberbrothok: the bell on the Inchcape Rock, ii. 173
Accumulator, the, for deep-sea sounding, i. 29, 35
Acephala, iv. 128
Actinozoa, iv. 115
Adair, Captain, killed at Trafalgar, i. 11
Adams, John, a survivor of the mutiny of the Bounty, i. 248, 249
Adams, William: his attempt to discover the North-west Passage, iii. 142
Adrianson, 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. 210
Adventure and Resolution, Captain Cook’s voyage of discovery, iii. 277
Africa: diamond fields, i. 210
African Company: slave trade, ii. 33
African Naval Station, i. 202
Agalma rubra, iv. 118, 120
Agamemnon, i. 16;
laying the first submarine Atlantic telegraph cable, iv. 101, 102
Agassiz, Prof.: on the sea-serpent, iv. 187, 189
“Aid,” steam tug, Ramsgate, ii. 215–224; iv. 246
Airy, Prof. Sir G. B.: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, iv. 278–282
Alaska, 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, 248
Alcatras Island, San Francisco, i. 157
Alceste, wreck of the, i. 82, 83
Aldrich, Lieut. P., voyage of the Alert, iii. 102, 107
Alert and Discovery: expedition to the Polar regions, highest latitude ever reached, iii. 99–114;
departure of the ships from Portsmouth, 65, 84;
the Alert described, 92;
The Alert in winter quarters, 104
Aleutian Islands, i. 169, 170
Alexandra, turret ship, ii. 146, 147
Alfonso XI., Gibraltar besieged by, i. 91
Alfred the Great: his ships, i. 265
Allan, Dr. John: propulsion of ships, ii. 80
Almendral, or Almond Grove, Valparaiso, i. 174
“Amazon,” burning of the, ii. 257, 278–290
Amadas, Captain, discovery of Virginia, i. 319
America: 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. 38
American Arctic expeditions. (See Grinnell, H.)
American railways, iv. 15–20
American sailors, i. 226
Amerigo Vespucci, title of America derived from him, iii. 301
“Amethyst,” action with the “Huascar,” i. 26
Amherst, Lord: wreck of the Alceste, i. 83
Ammonites, iv. 143
Amroth, submerged forest at, iv. 199
Amsterdam Island, iii. 257
Amusements: on board ships, iv. 33, 34;
on American railways, 27
Anderson, captain of the “Great Eastern:” laying the submarine telegraph cable, iv. 108, 110
Anemones: sea-anemones, iv. 123, 125
Animal life in the Arctic regions, iii. 167, 171
“Ann” wrecked: loss of a life-boat, ii. 212, 216
Anson, Commodore, at Juan Fernandez, i. 33;
portrait, ii. 45;
his voyage round the world in the Centurion, 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, 61
Antarctic Ice, the Challenger in, i. 33;
icebergs, 35
Antarctic Regions, the, iii. 276
Ants on board ship, i. 222
Apes at Gibraltar, i. 88, 97
Aquaria, their early and recent history, iv. 114
Arbroath, the Bell Rock Lighthouse, ii. 174
Arcachon, Bay of, its oyster-beds, iv. 137
“Archimedes,” screw-propeller, ii. 103
Arctic, derivation of the word, iii. 276
Arctic 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. 283
Argonauta, paper nautilus, iv. 150
“Arizona,” Atlantic steamer, iv. 3
Armada, Spanish, i. 283–291
Armour plates and guns, i. 86.
(See Iron-clad ships.)
Armstrong, Sir W. G.: the Armstrong guns, i. 86
Arsenals established by Henry VIII., i. 282
Artillery, Marine, early history, i. 278;
gunnery of war ships, i. 14
Ascension, Island of, i. 200, 202;
abundance of turtle, 202
“Assari Tefvik” (Turkish) and “Vesta” (Russian) ships: action between them, i. 27
Assistance, the search for Franklin, iii. 207
Assyrian skin-floats and basket-boats, i. 258
“Astarte,” wreck of the, iv. 243
Asterias (starfish), iv. 125
Astrology, modern belief in, iv. 278
Astronomy and Astronomers: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Sir G. B. Airy, Astronomer-Royal, and his predecessors, iv. 278–282
Atlantic 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, 100
Atlantic Ocean: its depth and other characteristics, i. 29;
chart, iv. 88
Audubon: passenger-pigeons on the Ohio, iii. 167
Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, iii. 278
Austin, Captain: search for Franklin in the Resolute, iii. 207;
“Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 216
Australia, 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, 55
Australian Naval Station, i. 119, 131, 150
Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition, iii. 270;
the “Tegethoff:” two years on an ice-floe, 271
Avatcha Bay and Mountain, i. 131, 137
Avery, Captain, the pirate, iii. 59–62
Avocado, or alligator-pear, i. 186
Back, Captain: Arctic voyages, iii. 166, 189, 193, 194;
his voyage in the Terror;
nipped in the ice, 197;
his address to his men on the Terror, 201
Back’s Great Fish River, iii. 217
Baffin, William: his Arctic voyages, iii. 149
Bahamas, wrecking at the, ii. 244
Baker, the diver, accompanying Captain Webb in his swim across the Channel, iv. 264
Ballantyne, R.M.: “The Floating Light on the Goodwin Sands,” iv. 245
Banks, Sir Joseph: expedition of the Bounty, i. 235
Baptism, ceremony of, iii. 4
Baranoff, Captain: action between the “Vesta” and “Assari Tefvik,” i. 27
Barbary, Pirates, ii. 42
Barents, William: his voyage of discovery, iii. 129–140;
his death in Nova Zembla, iii. 139, 140
Barlow, Captain: discovery of Virginia, i. 319
Barnsfield, Edward: discovery of South Polar land, iii. 278
Barrow, Sir John: Arctic exploration, iii. 162, 166, 169
Barton, John, a Scotch pirate of the fifteenth century, i. 279
Barton, Sir Andrew, defeated, i. 257
Basco, Michael de, the pirate, iii. 19
Bastia, siege of, i. 7
Bastides, Rodrigo de: his expedition to America, iii. 303, 304
Bathing: Nautilus Safety Bathing Dress, iv. 262
Bathing: warm or tepid baths a medium for learning to swim (See Swimming.)
Bay of God’s Mercy, iii. 178
Bayeux Tapestry: ships of William the Conqueror, i. 268
Beachey Head, iv. 231;
French vessel wrecked, 231, 233
Bears 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, 138
Beaumaris, ii. 305
Beechey, Captain: his visit to Pitcairn’s Island, i. 249;
Arctic Voyages, iii. 166, 167
Beechy Island, iii. 98;
relics of Franklin’s last voyage, iii. 210
Beeching, James: his prize life-boat, ii. 213
Behring, Vitus: his monument in Petropaulovski, i. 132, 135;
his Arctic discoveries and death, iii. 159–162
Belcher, Sir Edward, Polar Exploration, iii. 98
Belemnites, iv. 143
Bell, Henry: his passenger steamer, “Comet,” ii. 95;
his first advertisement, ib. 98
Bell Rock Lighthouse, ii. 172, 176
Bells on board ship in indicating time, i. 50
Bellerophon: surrender of Napoleon, i. 212
Bellinghausen: discovery of the most southern land, iii. 279, 280
Bellona: action with the “Courageux,” i. 228
Bellot, Lieut., Monument to, iii. 97
Belvedere, Kent: home for disabled and worn-out merchant seamen, iv. 273
Bennett, Dr.: his “Songs for Sailors,” i. 8
“Bergetta” plundered by wreckers, ii. 243
Bering Sea, i. 135, 137, 169, 170;
Captain Scammon’s soundings, 138
Bermuda, 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, 194
Berrio: Spanish expedition to El Dorado, ii. 9
Biblical allusions to the Sea, iv. 290
Bideford: Avery, the pirate, living at, iii. 61
Bideford Bar: wreck of the Woolpacket, ii. 224;
hovellers, 251
“Birkenhead,” loss of the, i. 73–75; iv. 283
Bishop Rock Lighthouse, ii. 269
Black Beard (John Theach), the pirate, ii. 63
Black Prince, i. 18; ii. 143
Bladder-wrack, iv. 201
Blake, Admiral, ii. 30
Blenheim, i. 8
Bligh, Captain: Mutiny of the Bounty, i. 235;
seized by the mutineers, 237;
cast adrift, 240
Blind crustacean from the Atlantic voyage of the Challenger, i. 31, 32
Blindness: snow blindness, iii. 182, 239
Blood, Rev. William, survivor of the burning of the “Amazon”: his description of it, ii. 285
Blossom: Capt. Beechey’s visit to Pitcairn’s Island, i. 249
Boat, ancient, found at New Stoke, iv. 230
Boat improperly hung on board the “Amazon,” ii. 279
Boat voyages of Behrens in the Arctic Regions, iii. 138–142;
of Captain Parry, 179;
of Dr. Kane, 251
Bobadilla: his arrest and ill-treatment of Columbus, iii. 296, 297, 304
Boers of South Africa, i. 208
Bombay, i. 118
Bonita, a tropical fish, iv. 176
“Bonne Homme Richard”: Paul Jones’s ship, iii. 75
Boobies and Noddies taken by Bligh, mutiny of the Bounty, i. 243, 244
Books found among the relics of Franklin’s expedition, iii. 231
Booth, Mr. Sheriff: Sir John Ross’s Arctic expedition fitted out by him, iii. 186;
survey of Boothia Felix, 187
Boston (U.S.): the obnoxious tax on tea, ii. 67, 68;
Boston port bill; the port closed, 70, 71
Botallack Mine, Cornwall, iv. 207, 209
Botany 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, 188
Botany, Marine. (See Challenger, Cruise of the.)
Botany Bay discovered, i. 151;
as a convict settlement, 152
Bounty: History of the mutiny, i. 235–249;
discovery of survivors on Pitcairn Island, 247
Boyle, Frederick: Cape Town, i. 204, 208;
diamond fields, 210;
ostrich farming, 210
Boyton, Captain Paul: his floating dress, iv. 261
Brand, Mr., lost in the “Northfleet,” ii. 263, 264
Brande’s analysis of crimson snow, iii. 164
Brasiliano, Roche, the pirate, iii. 3, 14, 15, 16;
his escape, 15
Brassey, 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, 75
Bread-fruit in Otaheite: expedition of the Bounty, history of the mutiny, i. 235
Breakwater: 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, 188
Brialmont on ships and forts, i. 14
Bridport, Lord: mutiny at Spithead, i. 250
Brierly, Oswald W., Cruise of the Galatea, i. 205
Brighton, iv. 229, 232
Brighton Aquarium, iv. 114
Brilliant: the boatswain’s mate at Trafalgar, i. 227;
action with French ships, 228
Britannia, i. 5
“Britannia” training ship, i. 47
“Britannia”: Dickens’s first trip to America, iv. 5
British Columbia, i. 163;
Cariboo Mines, ib.;
cedar canoes, i. 167
Briton at Pitcairn Island: survivors of the mutiny of the Bounty, i. 248
Brooke, G. V., lost in the “London,” ii. 294
Brooklyn, New York, i. 195, 198;
Brooklyn Bridge, 196, 198
Browning, Robert: his lines on passing through the Straits of Gibraltar, i. 87;
his poem, “Hervé Riel,” iv. 301
Brunel, 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. 85
Bubble Companies: the South Sea Bubble, ii. 43
Bucaniers, The, iii. 1–59;
origin of the term, 2
Bucentaure, i. 10, 11
Buchan, Captain: Arctic voyage, iii. 166, 167
Buchanan, Captain, of the “Merrimac,” i. 20
“Buenos Ayrean,” steel steam-ship, iv. 3
Bulkley, Colonel, at Plover Bay, i. 138, 143
Bullata from the Atlantic, i. 32
Burgoyne, Captain, lost in the Captain, i. 55
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell: his heroism in saving life, iv. 267
Byron, 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 the Bounty, 238
Byron, Hon. John: wreck of the Wager, ii. 51–55
“Bywell Castle”: collision with the “Princess Alice,” iv. 284