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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 Pitcairn Island: survivors and descendants of the mutiny of the _Bounty_, i. 247–249 Pitt, William, of Jamaica, his song on sailors, i. 42 Pittsburg, iv. 14 Pizarro, Francisco, voyage with Ojeda, iii. 309 Pizarro, Don Josef: disasters of his fleet, ii. 47 Plagues in the 14th and 15th centuries, i. 91 Plimsoll, Samuel: portrait, ii. 112; unseaworthy ships; his efforts, ii. 113 _ Plover_: search for Sir John Franklin, Plover Bay, i. 138: iii. 156, 207, 211; village at Plover Bay, 156 Plymouth, iv. 224 Plymouth Adventurers, ii. 11 Plymouth Breakwater, ii. 192 Plymouth men lost in the _Captain_, i. 55 Pniel, South Africa, diamond fields, i. 210 Poe, Edgar Allan, his story of a descent into the Maelström, iv. 94 Poets on the Sea, the Sailor, and the Ship, iv. 290–304 Point‐à‐Pitre, Guadaloupe, i. 186 Polar bears. (_See_ Bears.) Polar region: extent of our knowledge, iii. 86; a fabulous account, 87–91; theory of a Polar Sea, 255, 257 “Polaris:” Capt. Hall’s Arctic expedition, iii. 268; the ship run ashore, 270 Polaris Bay, iii. 107 Polynesia, Map of the islands of the Pacific, i. 245 Ponce de Leon, conqueror of Porto Rico and discoverer of Florida,