LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

No. Page
1.Gigantic Cuttle Fish———————[Frontispiece.]
2.Asiatic Deluge[18]
3.Hand of Satan[19]
4.Stormy Petrel[30]
5.The First Navigator[31]
6.Modern Row Boat[33]
7.The Deluge and the Ark[35]
8.Noctulius Miliaris[45]
9.Supposed form of the ship Argo[54]
10.The World, according to Homer[61]
11.The Earth, according to Anaximander[62]
12.The Great Penguin[64]
13.Greek Vessel of the 6th Century[65]
14.The Ptolemy Philopator[72]
15.Common Penguin[74]
16.The Sacred Promontory[78]
17.Plan of Pythias' Voyage[79]
18.Plan of the Voyage of Nearchus[83]
19.Supposed form of the ships of Nearchus[91]
20.Venetian Galley of the 10th Century[92]
21.Wedding the Adriatic[95]
22.Danish vessel of the 10th Century[99]
23.The Northmen of America[104]
24.Fishing for Herrings[107]
25.Ancient Chinese Compass[113]
26.Chinese Junk[119]
27.Ship of the 14th Century[121]
28.Teneriffe[122]
29.Cape Bojador[124]
30.Cape Verd[130]
31.Sea Swallow[132]
32.Christopher Columbus[137]
33.Violet Asteria[145]
34.The Fleet of Columbus[146]
35.Head of the Merganser[147]
36.The Nina homeward bound[157]
37.Columbus taking possession of Guanchani[158]
38.Reception of Columbus by Ferdinand, etc.[162]
39.Columbus in chains at Cadiz[168]
40.Water Spout[170]
41.The Phaeton[178]
42.Vasco de Gama[179]
43.Map of Africa, drawn 1497[182]
44.Spectre of the Cape[187]
45.Phosphorescence[188]
46.The Man overboard, and the Albatross[189]
47.Calicut in the 16th Century[196]
48.Wreck of the San Raphael[197]
49.De Gama's Flag Ship[204]
50.Vessels employed in the Spice Trade in the 16th Century[207]
51.Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth[213]
52.Balboa and the Indian[217]
53.Balboa discovering the Pacific Ocean[219]
54.Balboa taking possession of the Pacific Ocean[221]
55.Fate of De Solis and his companions[224]
56.Ferdinand Magellan[225]
57.Cape Virgin, east end Magellan's Strait[231]
58.Laminaria[235]
59.Natives of Borneo prepare to attack Magellan[236]
60.Tidore[242]
61.Scene on the Canadian Coast[246]
62.Henry VIII. Embarking at Dover[255]
63.Francis Drake[256]
64.Drake and his Raft[260]
65.Drake and the Patagonians[261]
66.Drake condemning Doughty[262]
67.Sea Anemones[266]
68.Drake interrupting Justin at Acopulco[270]
69.Queen Elizabeth knighting Drake[274]
70.British Ship of War. 1578[276]
71.Cavendish in Brazil[277]
72.Port Famine[278]
73.Hull of a vessel of the Armada[282]
74.Procession in honor of the defeat of the Armada[284]
75.Sir Walter Raleigh[285]
76.Native of the Solomon Islands[291]
77.Islanders before a Breeze[296]
78.The Dutch at Walrus Island[297]
79.The Dutch in Winter quarters[299]
80.The female Otter and her young[303]
81.Funeral of Mahu at Brava Island[304]
82.Affray between the Dutch and Patagonians[310]
83.The Two Admirals at close quarters[314]
84.A Dutch Pic-Nic in the Mauritius[315]
85.Turtles Head[315]
86.Woman and Child of Espiritu Santu[316]
87.Scene at Tahiti[318]
88.Hudson's vessel, The Half Moon, off Sandy Hook[323]
89.Dutch vessel trading at the Ladrones[326]
90.Conflict between the Dutch and Spanish Fleets[330]
91.The Dutch surprised by the Spaniards[331]
92.Cape Horn[335]
93.The Concord at Fly Island[336]
94.Arctic Gull[338]
95.Speedwell and Mayflower[339]
96.Cod Fish[345]
97.Tasman's vessel, The Zeehaan[346]
98.Murderer's Bay[349]
99.Natives of Murderer's Bay[349]
100.A Buccaneer[351]
101.Boats used in the Philippian Islands[360]
102.Surf Bathing by Natives[362]
103.Polynesian Canoe with its Outrigger[364]
104.Dampier's Boat in a Storm[365]
105.Wreck of the Pirate Ship, Whidah[372]
106.Home of Alexander Selkirk[373]
107.Selkirk and his Family[376]
108.Catching Turtles[378]
109.The Hammer-headed Shark[382]
110.The Eagle and the Pirate[383]
111.Mirage at Behring's Straits[391]
112.Lord Anson[393]
113.Bombardment of Paita[397]
114.Anson's Encampment at Firman[401]
115.The Centurion and the Treasure Ship[407]
116.Byron at King George's Island[410]
117.Parting of Wallis and Oberea[418]
118.Burning of the Le Prince[423]
119.Chain of Phosphorescent Salpas[425]
120.Bougainville[426]
121.A Ferry Boat at Buenos Ayres[428]
122.Bougainville at Magellan's Straits[429]
123.Cascade at Port Praslin[433]
124.Capt. James Cook[435]
125.A New Zealand Canoe[443]
126.Cape Pigeon[450]
127.Cook's ship beset by Water Spouts[451]
128.King Otoo's sister dancing[455]
129.Reception of Cook at the Friendly Islands[456]
130.Canoes of the Friendly Islands[458]
131.New Caledonian double Canoe[460]
132.Sandwich Island King to visit Cook[461]
133.Omai[465]
134.Habitations in Nootka Sound[467]
135.Man of the Sandwich Islands[469]
136.Woman of Sandwich Islands[470]
137.Fight with the Natives[472]
138.Death of Capt. Cook[474]
139.Lapérouse[480]
140.Lapérouse's Disaster at Frenchport[485]
141.Remnants of the wreck[490]
142.Consecration of the Cenotaph[491]
143.Scene in Terra del Fuego[492]
144.Colonists of Pitcairn's Island[498]
145.A Deserted Village[501]
146.The Discovery on a Rock[502]
147.Burning of the Philadelphia[506]
148.The Clermont, the first steamboat[508]
149.The Savannah, the first ocean steamer[517]
150.Head of a White Bear[519]
151.Reception of Otzebue at Otdia[520]
152.Sea Lions upon the Ice[523]
153.Attacked by Walruses[524]
154.White Bears[526]
155.Cutting In[529]
156.Cutting Out[529]
157.The Whale of Capt. de Blois[531]
158.The Navigators frozen in[535]
159.The Victory in a Gale[536]
160.Dr. Kane[547]
161.Dr. Kane passing through Devil's Nip[548]
162.The Seal[552]
163.Japanese Vessel[558]
164.The Leviathan[559]
165.Cape Alexander, the Arctic Gibraltar[561]
166.Chaos[563]
167.Wild Dog Team[565]
168.Open Polar Sea[566]
169.Seeking Eider Down[570]
170.The Telegraphic Fleet[571]
171.Hauling the Cable ashore[573]
172.Landing the Cable[574]
173.A hollow Wave[575]
174.The Cable in the bed of the Ocean[576]
175.Sections of Atlantic Cable[577]
176.The Telegraphic Plateau[584]
177.The Agamemnon in a Gale[590]
178.The Seal[594]
179.Diving Bell[595]
180.Fixed Apparatus supplied with Compressed Air[596]
181.Payerne's Submarine Hydrostat[598]
182.Mushroom Drill[601]
183.Ready to go down[603]
184.Putting in the Charges[605]
185.Grappling Machine[606]
186.Divers dressed in their Apparatus[607]
187.Divers finding a Box of Gold[608]
188.Arming the Diver[611]
189.Casting off the Diver[612]
190.Diver down[613]
191.Cannon, bell, and bones, brought up from the Wreck[615]
192.Salvage of Russian Ships[616]
193.Caulking a Vessel[617]
194.The Northern Diver[625]
195.Star Fish[627]
196.Sponge fishing[628]
197.Coral fishing off coast of Sicily[631]
198.Faggots suspended to receive Oyster Spat[636]
199.Dredging for Oysters[639]
200.A Shell containing Chinese Pearls[640]
201.Pearl Fisher in danger[642]
202.Shark fishing[646]
203.Cuttle fish making his Cloud[648]
204.Ideal Scene[650]
205.Red Coral[651]
206.Dredging[652]
207.Brook's Deep Sea Sounding Apparatus[657]
208.Bull Dog Sounding Machine[659]
209.Massey's Sounding Machine[660]
210.The stern of the Porcupine[668]
211.Sail boat in a Gale[673]
212.Pennsylvania and Ohio on the Stocks[675]
213.Monitors[678]
214.Plans of the Monitors[679]
215.St. Louis[680]
216.Double Ender[681]
217. Minnehaha, or Tin Clad[683]
218.The Ram Ironsides[685]
219.Torpedo Explosion[687]
220.Life Raft[691]
221.Ocean Yacht Race, Henrietta, Vesta and Fleetwing[694]
222.Fancy Sail Race[695]
223.Appearance of Ice at the Poles[710]
224.Light Ship[711]
225.A Coral Island[712]

ASIATIC DELUGE.

THE HAND OF SATAN UPON THE SEA OF DARKNESS.

Section I.

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA.