iii. 281, 284;

Columbus, 284; Vasco da Gama, 298 Portuguese man‐of‐war, iv. 119 Portuguez the pirate, iii. 13; his escape, 13, 14 Possession Island, Australia, i. 152; iii. 280 Prahus of the Malay Archipelago, i. 149 Prairie on fire, iv. 22 Prairie schooners, iv. 18, 22 Prawns, iv. 157 Praya diphyes, a Medusa, iv. 117 “President,” devoted to the Naval Artillery Volunteers, i. 234 Press‐gangs, i. 43 Pricket, Abacuk: his account of the mutiny against and abandonment of Hudson, iii. 147 Primrose, Joseph, a minister on board the “Polly”: his trials, i. 223 _ Prince Royal_, built for James II., ii. 22 “Princess Alice” lost in the Thames, iv. 282 “Princess Alice” on Goodwin Sands, ii. 251 Pringle, Admiral: mutiny at the Cape, i. 256 Printing presses in Arctic ships, iii. 103 Protozoa, iv. 111 Pteropoda, iv. 139, 142 Puerto Bello taken by the pirate Morgan, iii. 33 Pullen, Captain: search for Franklin in the _Herald_, iii. 211; in the _North Star_, 213 Pullman railway car, iv. 16 Purpura lapillus: a univalve shell, iv. 145

Quarles, Francis; lines on the sea, iv. 290 Quatrefages, M.: the lighthouse of Héhaux, Brittany, ii. 178; Hydrozoa, iv. 118 Queen Charlotte’s Island, i. 167 “Quieda Merchant,” Moorish ship, taken by Captain Kidd, iii. 57

Rae, W. F.: his account of California, i. 158; the Rocky Mountains, iv. 21 Rae, Dr.: relics of Franklin’s last voyage found by him, iii. 215 Raffles, Sir Stamford, at Singapore, i. 143 Rafts: timber‐rafts at Singapore, i. 146; raft of the “Medusa,” i. 76–82; Géricault’s painting, 81; foundering of the “Arctic,” ii. 108 Rain in the Arctic regions, iii. 182 Raleigh, Sir Walter: the Spanish Armada, i. 285; colonisation and trade with America, 315; Queen Elizabeth’s patronage, 316; “Bark Raleigh,” _ib._; colonisation of Virginia, ii. 2; search for El Dorado, 4; arrival at Trinidad, 4, 33; portrait, 5; mountains of Guiana; river Orinoco, 8; fabulous tales, _ib._; his observations on trade and the state of the navy, 10 Ralph the Rover: the bell of the Inchcape Rock, ii. 173 Rams of ironclads: loss of the _Vanguard_ and “Grosser Kurfürst,”