The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

Napoleon III.: introduction of ironclad war ships, i. 18

“Napoleon,” steam screw, constructed by Dupuy Delorme, i. 226

Nares, Sir George S.: cruise of the Challenger, i. 29;

	cairns erected by him, iii. 97, 99;
	expedition of the Alert and Discovery, 99–114;
	portrait, iii. 85

Natal, i. 211

Naukum, a native of Plover Bay, i. 138

Nautilus, iv. 143, 149

Naval architecture, History of, i. 258

Naval cadets, Training of, i. 47

Naval flags of the world, ii. 1

Naval service: officer’s life on board, i. 214

Navigation Act passed by Cromwell, ii. 30

Navy office established by Henry VIII., i. 282

Negrelli, M. de: his co-operation with M. de Lesseps in the Suez Canal, i. 111

Negroes in the West Indies, i. 183, 185, 188

Nelson, Lord: his glorious career, i. 7, 9, 10;

	as a model commander; Trafalgar, 227;
	career and anecdotes of, ii. 71;
	his encounter with the bear, 73;
	Calvi and Bastia, loss of his eye, ib.;
	Battle of the Nile, burning of “L’Orient,” 74;
	coffin presented to him, ib.;
	rewards, 75, 77;
	Battle of Copenhagen, 65, 75;
	portrait, 76;
	his body taken to Gibraltar, i. 96

Nelson’s bridge at the battle of St. Vincent, i. 8

Nevada, Silver mines at, iv. 26

“New Albion,” California so named by Drake, i. 312

Newfoundland: possession taken by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, i. 318;

	Captain Roberts the pirate at, iii. 63

Newhaven, iv. 231

“New Holland,” early name for West Australia, i. 151

New South Wales, so named by Captain Cook, i. 152

Newspapers in America, iv. 27;

	in Arctic ships, iii. 170

New York, i. 195–198;

	map of the harbour, 195;
	Brooklyn Bridge, 196;
	the Broadway, 197;
	ferry-boats, ib.;
	climate, 198;
	view of New York Bay, iv. 12

New York to Chicago by rail, iv. 14

New Zealand: Auckland, North, Middle, and Stewart’s Islands, iv. 48;

	gold-fields, 50;
	war with the Maories, 51

Niagara, iv. 14;

	the first submarine Atlantic telegraph cable, 101, 102

Nicaragua: Lolonois the pirate at, iii. 28

Nicuesa, Diego de: his expedition to America, iii. 307;

	his release from his creditors, 309;
	quarrel with Ojeda, 311;
	fight with Indians, ib.

Nino’s voyage to America, iii. 303

Noah’s ark, i. 258; iv. 56

Noddies and boobies taken by Bligh: mutiny of the Bounty, i. 243, 244

Noel, Commander R.N.: on torpedoes, ii. 152

Nombre de Dios, attacked by Drake, i. 302

Nordenskjöld, Professor: discovery of the north-east passage, iii. 159;

	his Swedish Arctic expeditions, 257;
	his six Arctic voyages, 274;
	accomplishment of the north-east passage, ib.;
	the “Vega,” ib.

Nore, mutiny of the, i. 249, 251–256

Norfolk: sketches of the sea coast, iv. 247–251

Norman ships, i. 266, 268

North American naval station, i. 108

North Cape, iii. 169

North-east passage: early voyages for discovering the, iii. 115–123, 129, 151;

	the passage made by Professor Nordenskjöld, 274;
	north-eastern voyages of the Dutch, 129

“Northfleet,” wreck of the, ii. 260, 263–267

North polar regions, map, iii. 89

North Pole: expeditions to approach it, iii. 87;

	projected passage over the Pole, 144, 151

North Star, search for Franklin, iii. 213

North-west passage, iii. 142, 143;

	reward offered by Government for its discovery, 154, 155;
	Sir John Ross’s expedition, 163, 205;
	discovered by Sir John Franklin, 206;
	found by Maclure, 212

Northumberland, Duke of: his interest in the Lifeboat, ii. 211;

	his prizes, 213

Northumberland, Napoleon I. on board the, i. 213

Norwegians, Arctic voyages of the Vikings, iii. 115, 116

Norwegian ships, ancient, i. 90

Norwegian ships, sanitary arrangements, ii. 120

“Novara” (Austrian frigate), deep-sea soundings, i. 28

Nova Zembla, Gerrit de Veer’s Map, iii. 131;

	Barents at, 133, 137;
	Henry Hudson at, 146

Oar-weed, iv. 200

Ocean, the, its Living Wonders, iv. 111–158.

	(See Atlantic and Pacific.)

Ocean, Lord Collingwood’s ship, in a storm, i. 105

Octopus, iv. 148

Officer’s life on board a man-of-war, i. 214

Officers of East Indiamen, their privileges, ii. 14

Ojeda, Alonzo de, a follower of Columbus: voyages to America, iii. 301, 304;

	imprisoned by Ocampo, 306;
	his escape, 305, 306;
	another voyage, 309;
	fight with Indians, 310, 311;
	quarrel with Nicuesa, ib.;
	wounded by Indians, 312;
	his strange adventures and death, 312, 313, 314

Old and young ice. (See Ice.)

Ommaney, Capt., search for Franklin in the Assistance, iii. 207

Onions in Bermuda, i. 190

Opium-eating and smoking, iv. 38

Orellana, Don Josef Pizarro attacked by him, ii. 48

“Orient,” steam-ship, iv. 3

Osborn, Admiral Sherard, on the loss of the Captain, i. 58;

	his advocacy of Polar Exploration, iii. 92;
	his biography of Franklin, 206;
	search for Franklin in the Pioneer, 207, 208, 210

Ostrich farming in South Africa, i. 210

Otaheite, the crew of the Bounty at, i. 236, 238

Ounimak Pass, Aleutian Islands, i. 171

Owen, Professor R., F.R.S., on the Sea-serpent, iv. 187, 188

Oxenham, John, his connection with Drake, i. 303;

	his embarkation on the Pacific Ocean, 304;
	executed at Lima, 305

Oysters, British, mentioned by Juvenal, i. 262;

	natural history and cultivation, iv. 130–138;
	dredging for oysters, 137.
	(See Pearl Oysters.)

Pacific Ocean, its depth and other characteristics, i. 28;

	Map of Islands, 245;
	discovered by Balboa, 303;
	Drake’s first view of it, 289, 302;
	seen by the pirate Morgan, iii. 47;
	storm in 1865, i. 139;
	“patent smoke-stack,” ib.

Pacific Ferry, The: San Francisco to Japan and China, iv. 31–40;

	to New Zealand and Australia, 45–55

Pacific Naval Station, i. 156

Pacific Railway, Life on the, iv. 19;

	scene in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 20;
	snow-shed, 29

“Pacific” steamer lost, ii. 108

Paddle-boats, History of, ii. 77, 78

Padstow, Wreck at, iv. 221

Paléocapa, M.: his co-operation with M. de Lesseps in the Suez Canal, i. 111

Palos: departure of Columbus on his first voyage, iii. 293

Panama, i. 171;

	taken and burnt by the pirate Morgan, iii. 47–49;
	Spanish ships taken by the pirate Sawkins, iii. 51–54;
	view of the town, 52

Panama, Isthmus of, Drake at the, i. 303

Pandora sent to find the mutineers of the Bounty, i. 244;

	the ship wrecked, 246

“Pandora,” Cruise of the, iii. 91–99

Papin: propulsion of ships, ii. 80

Paraguayan torpedo blowing up a Brazilian ironclad, ii. 154

Parahelia, or mock suns, iii. 132

Parker, Richard, ringleader of the mutiny of the Nore, i. 252–256;

	hanged, 256

Parker, Sir Peter: mutiny at Spithead, i. 250

Parma, Prince of, in the Spanish Armada, i. 284, 286, 290

Parr, Lieutenant, his arrival on board the Alert, iii. 113

Parry, Sir. W. E.: Arctic expedition, iii. 163, 168, 170;

	boat and sledge expedition, 178;
	career after his Arctic voyages, 184;
	his death, 185

Parsees, i. 118

Pasley, Colonel: raising of the Royal George, i. 62

Patagonia, Drake in, i. 308

Payer, Lieutenant Julius, Arctic expedition of the “Germania” and “Hansa,” iii. 259;

	his discovery of coal in the Arctic regions, 267;
	Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition in the “Tegethoff,” 271;
	two years on an ice-floe, ib.;
	sledge expedition, 272;
	discovery of Franz Josef Land, ib.;
	fall of sledge into a crevasse, 273

Payerne’s “Submarine Hydrostats,” iv. 86

Peace, Men of: naval life in peace times; the cruise of the Challenger, i. 28

Pearls from America taken to Spain, iii. 303

Pearl, Commodore Anson’s ship, ii. 46, 50

Pearl oysters: pearls, real and artificial, iv. 67, 68, 69;

	history and practice of the pearl fishery, 70

Pearson, Captain, his ship taken by Paul Jones, iii. 77

Peat-bogs, Falkland islands, i. 177

Pemmican: an Arctic dinner, iii. 210;

	mode of preparing, 216

Penguins and their eggs, i. 40, 41, 177; iii. 280

Penny, Captain W., search for Franklin in the “Lady Franklin,” iii. 207, 210

Pensioners, Greenwich, iv. 286

Penzance, iv. 219

Perez, Father, his support of the plans of Columbus, iii. 286

Perils of the Sailor’s Life, i. 54, 67

Perim Island, in the Red Sea, i. 117

Perrault, the Canadian voyageur, dividing his store with Richardson and his crew, iii. 192

Peru, i. 172

Peter the Great: at Amsterdam, ii. 33–38;

	portrait, 33;
	in England, 38–41;
	receiving a deputation, 36;
	Saye’s Court, 39;
	rise of St. Petersburg, 41

Petersen, Christian, with Captain Nares in the Alert;

	his illness and death, iii. 105;
	the “Fox” Arctic expedition, 216, 218, 220, 227, 236, 241, 252

Petropaulovski, i. 131, 132;

	Avatcha Bay, 131;
	scenery, 131, 134, 137;
	town attacked by the allied fleets, 132;
	double wedding, 135

Pett, Phineas: his improvements in war ships, i. 232;

	the Prince Royal, ii. 22;
	Royal Sovereign, 29

Phillip, Captain, his voyage to Botany Bay, i. 152

Phipps, Captain, his Arctic voyage, iii. 154

Phipps, William, a fortunate diver, iv. 80

Phœnician fleets, i. 259

Phœnician remains in Malta, i. 103

Pholades, rock-borers, iv. 203

Phosphorescence of the sea, iv. 96, 97

Physalia, iv. 119, 120, 121

Pierre le Grand, the pirate, iii. 7;

	Spanish admiral’s ship taken by him, 8, 9, 12

Pigeons: pigeon despatched by Sir John Ross, iii. 211

“Pigeon English” in China, i. 126;

	“Chinook jargon,” 167

Pilchards: the pilchard fishery, iv. 173, 216

Pillars of Hercules, i. 87

Pim, Lieut., of the Resolute, his meeting with Captain Maclure, iii. 213

Pindar, his reference to the sea, i. 2

Pinto, Fernando Mendez, shipwrecked in Japan, i. 129

Pinzon, Vincente Yanez, his voyage to America, iii. 303

Pioneer, the search for Franklin, iii. 207, 210

Pipe-fish, iv. 162, 164

Pipon, Capt., his discovery of the survivors of the Bounty, i. 247, 248

Piracy, ii. 235;

	pirates at Singapore, i. 146;
	Scotch pirates in the 15th century, 279;
	Barbary pirates, ii. 42;
	Drake as a pirate, i. 309;
	the Earl of Cumberland, 291–295;
	Captains Quelch and Bellamy, and others, ii. 63;
	“Black Beard” the pirate, ib.;
	“The Pirates and Bucaniers,” iii. 1–59;
	their early history, 2;
	Captain Jennings, 3;
	Esquemeling’s account of the bucaniers, ib.;
	pirate vessels, 17th century, 4;
	their mode of dividing spoils, 11, 45;
	“Pirates of the 18th century,” 59–71;
	female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonney, iii. 69;
	Shakespeare’s allusions to pirates, iv. 294, 295