Galatea, Cruise of the, i. 205
“Gallia,” Atlantic steamer, iv. 3
“Gamo,” Spanish frigate, taken by Admiral Cochrane, i. 219
Gann, John: his diving apparatus, iv. 87
Garry Island: Franklin’s flag unfurled, iii. 194
Gasparin, Madame de; her reminiscences of a thunderstorm, iv. 193
Gasteropoda, iv. 139
Gems in Ceylon, i. 119
George II.’s navy, i. 232;
laws against wrecking, ii. 237
George IV.; Lukin’s life-boat, ii. 210
Georgia, Gulf of, i. 166, 167
Géricault’s painting of the raft of the “Medusa,” i. 81, 82
German Arctic expeditions, iii. 258
“Germania,” Arctic exploring ship, iii. 258, 267
Gerritz, Dirk, discovery of Southern Polar land, iii. 277, 278
Gibraltar, 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, 39
Gibraltar, a town in Venezuela, iii. 20;
taken by pirates, 21, 22, 23, 25
Gilbert, W. S.: his operettas, iv. 303
Gilbert, 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, 126
Gilmore, Rev. W.: “Storm Warriors; or, Lifeboat Work,” ii. 217;
hovellers and wreckers, ii. 245, 247, 253
Girvan, Private, a diver: his submarine combat with Corporal Jones, iv. 88
Glaciers, iii. 155, 166
Globe-fish, iv. 162, 164
Globigerina, from the Atlantic, i. 32
Gloucester, Commodore Anson’s ship, ii. 46, 50, 56, 57
Goats in Malta, i. 99
Goat Island, San Francisco, i. 157
Goggles worn in Arctic exploration, iii. 110
Going aloft, i. 97
Gold: 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, 314
Gold-washing, Ancient, at St. Domingo, iii. 293
Golden State and City. (See California, San Francisco.)
Golden Hinde: Drake’s circumnavigating ship, i. 308–314;
Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s expedition, 318
Goodwin 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. 294
Gosnold, Captain: first direct voyage to America, ii. 10
Gosse, 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, 204
Granada: the Moors in Spain, i. 88, 90;
at Gibraltar, 94
Great American Desert, iv. 22
“Great Britain,” ii. 102
“Great Eastern,” i. 13;
its tonnage, 232;
contrasted with the Great 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, 102–110
Great Fish River, iii. 217
Great Harry, i. 275, 282;
contrasted with the “Great Eastern,” 233
Greathead’s Life-boats, ii. 209, 210, 211
“Great Michael,” James IV. of Scotland, i. 281
Great Mogul’s ship taken by Avery, the pirate, iii. 60, 61
“Great Queensland,” blown up, ii. 122
“Great Western” steam-ship, ii. 101, 106
Grecian ships, i. 261
Greene, Henry: his mutiny against Hudson, iii. 147;
killed by natives of Labrador, 148
Greenland, 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, 249
Greenwich: Peter the Great and Halley, ii. 40
Grinnell, 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. 255
Griper: Arctic voyages, iii. 168, 169, 176
Grippe, or mistral, i. 107
Grog, Admiral Vernon (“Old Grog”): his grogram tunic, i. 51
Grog on ship-board, i. 44
“Grosser Kurfürst,” Loss of the, iv. 238
Grylls, Lieut. R.N., a survivor of the burning of the “Amazon,” ii. 282, 287, 288
Guadaloupe discovered by Columbus, iii. 294
Guano ships, ii. 122, 123
Guard ships, i. 44
Guiana, Raleigh’s expeditions to, ii. 8
Guillemard’s “Over Land and Sea”: Honolulu, Fiji, iv. 47
Gulf Stream, iv. 91
Gulf Stream light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands, iv. 245
Gulf of Georgia, i. 166, 167
Guns: gunnery of war-ships. (See Artillery)
Guy Fawkes burnt in the Arctic regions, iii. 219
“Gwenissa” wrecked near Tramore, ii. 258;
Ronayne’s bravery in saving life, 257–261
Haddock: “Finnan haddies”; fishing in Scotland, iv. 175
Hakluyt’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. 119
Haliburton, Judge: erection and history of the town of Halifax, i. 199
Halibut, or Holibut, iv. 175
Halifax, 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. 160
Hall, Captain C. F., his Arctic expedition in the “Polaris,” iii. 268;
his death and funeral, 268, 269
Hall, James: attempt to discover the North-west Passage, iii. 143, 149
Halley’s diving-bell, iv. 81
Hamilton, Bermuda, i. 187, 188
Hammerhead, iv. 162
Hannay, James, on wasteful expenditure in naval construction, i. 47
Hanno’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, 266
Hardy, Captain, at the Battle of Trafalgar, i. 10
Hargreave, E. H.: his discovery of gold in Australia, i. 151, 153
Harpa, a univalve shell, iv. 145
Harris, Corporal: his diving exploits, iv. 87
Hartstene, Captain: his search for and meeting with Dr. Kane, iii. 254
Harvey, Captain, of the Téméraire, at Trafalgar, i. 10
Harvey, Captain: his torpedo, ii. 153, 155
Harwich, iv. 247, 248
Hastings, iv. 236;
battle of Hastings, ib.
Havana, i. 184;
slave labour, 185
Hawaian Islands. (See Sandwich 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, 301
Hayes, Dr.: his sufferings in Dr. Kane’s expedition, iii. 240, 241;
his Arctic expedition in the “United States,” iii. 255
Hayti discovered by Columbus, iii. 291;
its early history, 205
Heard Island, i. 34
Hecla: Arctic voyages, iii. 169, 170
Heemskirk, Gibraltar attacked by, i. 92
Hegemann, Captain: Arctic expedition of the “Hansa,” iii. 257, 259, 267
Héhaux, Brittany, Lighthouse, ii. 178
Hemans, Mrs.: lines on shipwrecks, ii. 296;
her “Casabianca,” iv. 299
Henri Grace de Dieu. (See Great Harry.)
Henry V., his fleet, i. 273
Henry VII.: Acts for regulating the Navy, i. 277
Henry VIII.’s navy, i. 232, 273, 282;
royal navy first established, 275;
encouragement of voyages of discovery, iii. 119, 120; iv. 288
Hepburn, a sailor in Richardson’s Arctic expedition; his heroism, iii. 189, 193
Herald sent in search of Franklin, iii. 207, 211
Hermit crab, iv. 154, 156
Hero of the Humber, John Ellerthorpe, iv. 267
“Héros,” i. 7
Herrings 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, 250
Hickley, Captain, of the Iron Duke: loss of the Vanguard, i. 63
Hiero’s floating palace, i. 260
Hirst, Robert: his escape from the Captain, i. 55, 57
Hispaniola discovered by Columbus, iii. 291
History of the sea, i. 1
Hoboken, New York, i. 195
Hobson, Captain W. R.: “Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 216, 226;
his discovery of a record of the expedition, 226, 229, 230
Hodder, Edwin, “Heroes of Britain in Peace and War,” iv. 267
Hogg, James, the Ettrick shepherd; growth, changes, and migration of the salmon, iv. 165, 166
Holothuria: trepang fisheries, iv. 127, 128
Holyhead Breakwater, ii. 197
Holystoning a ship’s deck, i. 49
Home for Disabled and Worn-out Merchant Seamen, Belvedere, Kent, iv. 273
Honduras discovered by Columbus, iii. 296
Hong Kong, i. 119.
(See Victoria.)
Honolulu, View and account of, iv. 33, 45, 46
Hood, Admiral Lord, i. 4, 6
Hood, Captain: Arctic exploration, iii. 189, 193
Hood, Thomas: his poem, “The Demon Ship,” iv. 303
Horace: on the Sea, iv. 290, 291
Hore’s voyage of discovery encouraged by Henry VIII., iii. 120
Horses, Wild, at Tortuga, iii. 7
Hotham, Admiral, i. 7
Hovellers: at the Goodwin Sands, ii. 199;
hovelling v. wrecking, 245;
services of hovellers, ib.;
hovellers associated with wreckers, 247;
dangers of the hoveller’s life, 249;
wreck of the “Woolpacket,” 251
Howard of Effingham, Lord: defeat of the Spanish Armada, i. 284
Howe, Admiral Lord: mutiny at Spithead, i. 250, 251
“Huascar” and “Shah”: action between them, i. 26
Hubner, Baron: the passage from San Francisco to Japan, iv. 35–37;
Yokohama, 40
Hudson, Henry: his Polar voyages, iii. 144, 146;
mutiny, cast adrift and lost, 147, 148;
Hudson River, Bay and Strait, iii. 144, 146
Hudson River, i. 195; iii. 144;
its discovery, 146
Hudson’s Bay Company and the Californian currency, i. 165, 167; iii. 151, 154;
the search for Franklin, 207
Huer, or watcher, in pilchard fishing, iv. 173
Hull, E. W.: his device for saving life at the wreck of the “Killarney,” ii. 315
Hummocks in the Polar Seas, iii. 97, 137, 181
Hunt, Mr. Ward: on the loss of the Vanguard, i. 67
Hurricanes, iv. 95
Hydrozoa, iv. 115
Hyères, naval fight off, i. 7
Ice 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, 200
Ice and snow on American railways, iv. 21, 28
Ice. (See Antarctic 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. 234
Icelandic explorers of the Arctic regions, iii. 16
Ice Point and Ice Haven, Nova Zembla, iii. 139, 142
“Impératrice:” chest of gold recovered by divers, iv. 86
Inaccessible Island: rescue of two voluntary Crusoes, i. 39
Ince, Henry: the sea serpent, iv. 185
Inchcape Rock: bell signal, ii. 173;
lighthouse, 173–176
Indiana, iv. 14
Inflexible, turret ship: its cost, i. 231; ii. 144
Infusoria: their propagation, iv. 113
Ingram: his escape from the Royal George, i. 61
Inman line of steam-ships, ii. 111
“Inverness,” plundered by wreckers, ii. 241, 244
Investigator: search for Franklin, iii. 211–213;
the ship abandoned, 214
Ipswich, iv. 247
Irish moss or Carrageen, iv. 202
Iron and wooden ships, i. 9, 13, 84, 138–146
Ironclad war ships, i. 13, 14, 18, 19, 26, 27, 54;
their cost, 59, 66, 83, 231; ii. 148;
Iron Duke and Vanguard, i. 63–66;
circular ironclads, ii. 148;
rams, 155;
turret ships. (See Monitors.)
Iron steamers introduced, ii. 99, 102
Iron Duke: loss of the Vanguard, i. 63–66
Irons’s “Settler’s Guide to the Cape of Good Hope,” i. 210
Isabella of Spain: Gibraltar surrendered to, i. 92.
(See Ferdinand and Isabella.)
Island of Desolation, iii. 279
Islands of the Pacific: Map, i. 245
Isle of Wight, iv. 227
Ismaïlia, on the line of the Suez Canal, i. 110, 114
Isthmus of Panama, Drake at the, i. 303
Ivigtut: visit of the “Pandora,” iii. 95
Ivory, fossil, iii. 162
Jamaica: 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, 94
James II.’s Navy, i. 232; ii. 22
James, Sir Henry: on the loss of the Vanguard, i. 67
James Town, St. Helena, i. 212
Japan: 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, 42
Java, i. 144
Jelly-fish, iv. 116, 147
Jennings, Captain Henry: a bucanier, iii. 3
Jersey City, New York, i. 195
Jervis, Sir John: battle of St. Vincent, i. 7, 9
Jessop, Josias: Smeaton’s assistant at the Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 165, 166
“Jesus:” Sir John Hawkins’ ship; the slave trade, i. 299
Jiddah, i. 117;
view from the sea, ib.
John, King: his fleet, i. 271
John, King of Portugal: his patronage of Bartholomew Diaz, iii. 281
Johns, Rev. C. A.: “The Loss of the Amazon,” ii. 278, 288;
smuggling on the Cornish coast, iv. 210;
search for treasure trove, 222
Johnson, Dr.: on the perils of the sea, i. 42
Jones, Lance-corporal: his diving exploits, iv. 88
Jones, Paul, the privateer, iii. 71–78;
portrait, 77
Juan Fernandez: Robinson Crusoe’s island, i. 33, 36; ii. 50
“Judith,” Sir John Hawkins’s ship, i. 299, 302
Junks, Chinese, i. 147–149
Kalosh Indians in Alaska, i. 169, 170
Kalutunah, an Esquimaux, iii. 242;
portrait, 245
Kamchatka, Kamtschatka: i. 131, 135, 137;
orthography of the word, iii. 160;
Russian expedition to, 160, 162
Kanakas, as sailors, i. 43
Kane, Dr.: his expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 230–254;
portrait, 236
Kangaroos, i. 151
“Keels” on the Tyne, i. 263
Kellett, Captain: search for Franklin in the Herald, iii. 207, 211;
“Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 216
Kempenfelt, Admiral: lost in the Royal George, i. 60
“Kent,” East Indiaman, burning of the, i. 64–74
Kentish Knock Light-ship, ii. 273, 274
Kerguelen’s discoveries in the Southern hemisphere, iii. 277
Kerguelen’s Land, i. 34
Kidd, Captain Robert, the pirate, iii. 56–59;
his trial and execution, 58, 59
“Killarney,” Wreck of the, ii. 304–317;
rescue of survivors, 316
King, Governor: his description of Australia, i. 153
King crabs, iv. 152
Kingman, Captain: phosphorescence of the sea, iv. 97
Kingsley, Charles: on sailors; Amyas Leigh, i. 43;
Trinidad, Jamaica, Havana, 180, 182, 185, 186;
his “Three Fishers,” iv. 299
Kingston Harbour, Jamaica, i. 181, 183;
the Palisades; Port Royal; town of Kingston, i. 183
Kitchiner, Dr., on oysters, iv. 133
Knight, John: attempt to discover the north-west passage, iii. 143;
remnants of his expedition, 145, 153
Knights of St. John of Malta, i. 98, 99, 101, 103
Knights Templars, i. 101
Knock Sands, ii. 254
Knowles, Captain, lost in the “Northfleet”: his bravery, ii. 263–267
Knysna, Cape of Good Hope, i. 208, 209
Koldewey, Captain: Arctic expeditions; the “Germania” and “Hansa,” iii. 259
Kondylostoma patens, a microscopic infusorian, iv. 113
Kraken: sea-serpent, iv. 149.
(See Sea-serpent.)