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Restoration Island named by Lieutenant Bligh: mutiny of the _Bounty_, i. 244 Reticulosa, iv. 111 Reynaud, M.: Héhaux lighthouse, Brittany, ii. 178–181 Rhizopoda, iv. 111 Rhodosperms, iv. 200 Richard I., first maritime code, i. 268; laws against wrecking, ii. 237 Richardson, Sir John: portrait, iii. 185; his adventure with wolves, 189, 190; his attempt to swim the Coppermine River, iii. 191, 193 Riou, Capt., his death at Copenhagen, i. 152 Roanoake; its colonisation, ii. 2 “Roanoake,” i. 20 Robber crab, iv. 152 “Robert J. Stockton,” iron steam‐ship, ii. 103, 104 Roberts, Captain Bartholomew, the pirate, iii. 63, 64 Roberts, Lady: her help in the wreck of the “Killarney,” ii. 314, 317 Robin Hood’s Bay, iv. 256 Robinson Crusoe: the island of Juan Fernandez, i. 33–36 “Rob Roy:” Napier’s steam‐vessel, ii. 98 Rock‐borers, iv. 203 Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Railway, iv. 21 Rodney’s naval victory, i. 186 Rôles d’Oleron: laws against wrecking, ii. 237 Roman ships and galleys, i. 261 Ronayne, John: his bravery in saving life, ii. 257–261 Rooke, Sir George: Gibraltar taken by him, i. 94 Rose, Richard: his life‐buoy seat, iv. 262 Ross, Sir John: portrait, iii. 161; his Arctic voyages, 163; his voyage in the _Victory_, 186; search for Franklin in the _Felix_, 207 Ross, Sir James Clarke: Arctic voyage, iii. 163; Arctic exploration, 179, 181, 184; discovery of the magnetic pole, 187; “Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, 216, 225; discovery of the South Polar Land; Victoria Land, Possession Island, and Mount Erebus, 280 “Rothsay Castle,” wreck of the, ii. 288, 297–304 Round the World on a Man‐of‐war, i. 87–214 “Round the World in Eighty Days,” iv. 1 _ Royal George_, loss of the, i. 59–62; its removal by Colonel Pasley, 62; diving operations, iv. 86 Royal Humane Society, iv. 263 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, iv. 278–282 _ Royal Sovereign_, Charles I.’s ship, ii. 29 _ Royal Sovereign_, i. 5 Rudyerd, John, second Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 161; destroyed by fire, 160, 163; death of a keeper, _ib._ Russell, J. Scott, F.R.S., “The Fleet of the Future: Iron or Wood,” i. 85; ii. 101; portrait, 129; construction of the “Great Eastern,” 130 Russian America, Alaska, i. 169, 170 Russian Arctic Explorations, iii. 185 Russian attempts to discover the north‐west passage, iii. 159; Russian Arctic voyages, 159–162 Russian ironclads, i. 83

Saba Island, West Indies, i. 185 Sabine; Arctic expedition, iii. 163, 170 Saïd Pacha and M. de Lesseps, i. 108 Sailors: Lascars, Malays, and Kanakas, i. 43; Devonshire boys on training ships, 46; rating of sailors (able, ordinary, and boys), 51; their hardships, 53; flogging, 51–53; perils of the sailor’s life, 54; their conduct on board the _Terror_, iii. 199. (_See_ Discipline.) St. Catherine’s Island, taken by the pirate Morgan, iii. 45 St. Domingo: drawing by Columbus of its discovery, iii. 292; early gold‐washing at, 293; war, mutiny, and famine, 295; Diego Columbus made governor, 308 St. Elias, Mount, Alaska, i. 170 St. George’s Island, Bermuda, i. 187, 189 St. Helena, i. 212, 213 St. John’s, Newfoundland: possession taken by Sir Humphrey Gilbert,