INDEX


Abram,
4
.


Abyssinia,
344-7
.


Afghanistan,
36
.


Africa,
20-2
,
72
,
103
,
127
,
339
.


Africa, Central,
349-56
,
391-402
,
442-500
.


Africa, South,
152
,
173-6
,
440
.


Africa, West Coast,
22
,
30
,
139
,
143-51
,
349
.


Agricola,
68
.


Alaska,
317
,
334
,
338
.


Albert Nyanza,
470
.


Albuquerque, Alphonso d',
184-8
.


Alexander the Great,
35-43
.


Alexandria,
45
,
74
.


Alfred the Great,
96
.


Almagro, Diego de,
220
.


Almeida, Francisco,
184-6
.


Almeida, Lorenzo,
185-6
.


Alvarado, Pedro de,
206
,
208
.


Amazon,
221
.


America (Central),
168
,
170
,
191
,
205
.


America (North),
95
,
228
,
255
,
275
,
316
,
358
.


America (South),
167
,
170
,
180
,
196
,
215
,
252
.


Amundsen, R.,
542-4
.


Anabasis
(of Xenophon),
34
.


Anaximander,
23
.


Andes,
217
,
220
.


Antarctic regions,
331
,
428-31
,
536-44
.


Arab explorers,
98-107
,
126
.


Arabian Nights, The
,
101
.


Arctic regions,
53
,
238
,
259-84
,
312-8
,
365-90
,
403-9
,
501-10
,
521-35
.


Arculf,
88-90
.


Argonauts,
13-6
.


Auckland,
429
.


Australia,
296-301
,
307-11
,
326-38
,
410-27
.



Babylonia,
3-4
,
32
.


Back, Sir George,
372-4
,
382
.


Baffin, William,
280-3
.


Baffin's Bay,
282-3
.


Bagdad,
109
.


Bahamas,
160
.


Baker, Sir Samuel,
465-73
.


Balboa, Vasco Nunez de,
190-3
.


Balbus,
72
.


Bangweolo, Lake,
477
.


Banks, Sir Joseph,
320
,
336
,
349
,
413
.


Barents, William,
265-72
.


Bass, George,
410-3
.


Baudin, Nicholas,
414
.


Behring, Vitus,
312-8
.


Behring's Strait,
312-8
,
334
.


Benjamin of Tudela,
108
.


Black Sea,
14
.


Bogle, George,
512
.


Book of the Tartars
,
97
.


Boothia,
404
.


Borneo,
102
.


Botany Bay,
326
,
336
.


Brandon's Isle,
86-7
.


Brazil,
181
,
196
.


British Columbia,
358
,
362
.


British Isles,
48
,
50-2
,
57-60
,
66-9
,
74
.


Bruce, James,
339-48
.


Burke, R. O'Hara,
424
.


Burton, Sir Richard,
450-5
.


Button, Sir Thomas,
280
.



Cabot, John and Sebastian,
224-7
.


Cabral, Pedro,
180-2
.


Cadamosto, Luigi,
143-5
.


Caillé, Réné,
396
.


Calicut,
129
,
177-8
,
181-3