| PAGE |
| [Morgan’s Attack on Gibraltar] | Frontispiece |
| [Pirate Vessels (17th century)] | 4 |
| [Pierre Le Grand taking the Spanish Vessel] | 8 |
| [Pierre François attacking the Vice-Admiral] | 9 |
| [Escape of Portuguez] | 13 |
| [Brasiliano’s Escape] | To face page 15 |
| [Map of Central America and the West India Islands] | 17 |
| [The Struggle with the Pirates at Gibraltar] | 21 |
| [Lolonois’ Fight with the Spaniards] | 25 |
| [On the Coast of Costa Rica] | 32 |
| [Blowing up of the French Pirate Ship] | 36 |
| [Morgan’s Attack on Maracaibo] | 40 |
| [Captain Henry Morgan] | 41 |
| [Captain Morgan’s Escape from Maracaibo] | 44 |
| [Burning of Panama] | 48 |
| [View of Panama] | 52 |
| [Avery chasing the Great Mogul’s Ship] | 61 |
| [Death of “Captain” Roberts] | 65 |
| [The Female Pirates] | 68 |
| [Paul Jones and Lady Selkirk] | 73 |
| [Paul Jones] | 77 |
| [De Soto chasing the Morning Star] | 80 |
| [Cadiz] | 81 |
| [Captain Nares conducting H.R.H. The Prince of Wales over the Alert at Portsmouth] |
| [Departure of the Alert and Discovery from Portsmouth] | To face page 85 |
| [Sir George Nares] | 85 |
| [Cape Desolation] | 88 |
| [Map of the North Polar Regions] | 89 |
| [The Arctic Yacht Pandora] | |
| [The Arctic Store Ship Valorous] | |
| [Disco] | 93 |
| [Entrance to the Music Hall, Disco] | 96 |
| [Explorers Crossing Hummocks] | To face page 97 |
| [The Monument to Bellot] | 97 |
| [Winter Quarters of the Discovery] | 101 |
| [Winter Quarters of the Alert] | 104 |
| [An Alert Sledge Party en route to the Discovery] | 108 |
| [Sunshine in the Polar Regions] | 109 |
| [A Sledge Party starting for Cape Joseph Henry] | 112 |
| [Arrival of Lieutenant Parr on board the Alert] | 113 |
| [Sebastian Cabot] | 120 |
| [Frobisher passing Greenwich] | 124 |
| [An Arctic Scene: Floating Ice] | 125 |
| [Martin Frobisher] | 128 |
| [An Iceberg breaking up] | To face page 129 |
| [Nova Zembla, showing the route taken by Barents and his Followers] | 131 |
| [Mock Suns, seen on 4th June, 1596, by Barents and his Followers] | 132 |
| [Transporting Wood on Sledges for Building the House] | 133 |
| [Attacked by Bears] | 136 |
| [Repairing the Boat] | 137 |
| [Unloading, Dragging, and Carrying Boats and Goods] | 140 |
| [View on the Hudson] | 144 |
| [The Remnants of Knight’s Expedition] | 145 |
| [In Smith’s Sound] | 149 |
| [Mock Suns] | 152 |
| [Encounter with Sea-horses] | 156 |
| [Tchuktchi Indians Building a Hut] | 157 |
| [Sir John Ross] | 161 |
| [Fiskernæs, South Greenland] | 164 |
| [The Dorothea and the Trent in the Ice] | 165 |
| [Magdalena Bay, Spitzbergen] | To face page 166 |
| [The North Cape] | 169 |
| [Esquimaux of West Greenland] | 172 |
| [An Esquimaux Snow Village] | 173 |
| [Captain Lyon and his Crew offering Prayers for their Preservation] | 177 |
| [The Edge of the Pack] | 180 |
| [Dr. (afterwards Sir) John Richardson] | 185 |
| [Fort Enterprise] | 188 |
| [Richardson’s Adventure with White Wolves] | 189 |
| [Perrault Dividing his Little Store] | 192 |
| [Esquimaux Kaiyacks and Boat] | 196 |
| [The Terror Nipped in the Ice] | 197 |
| [Back Addressing the Seamen] | 201 |
| [Sir John Franklin] | 205 |
| [The Erebus and the Terror among Icebergs] | To face page 207 |
| [Cutting Ice Docks] | 208 |
| [Ice Mountains] | 209 |
| [Captain Robert Le Mesurier M’Clure] | 213 |
| [The Sledge Party of the Resolute, under Lieut. Bedford Pim, Finding the Investigator] | |
| [Back’s Great Fish River] | 217 |
| [Esquimaux Catching Seals] | 220 |
| [A Natural Arch in the Arctic Regions] | 221 |
| [Captain (afterwards Sir Leopold) M’Clintock] | 224 |
| [An Esquimaux Sledge and Team of Dogs] | To face page 225 |
| [Cape York, Melville Bay] | 228 |
| [Relics brought back by the Franklin Search Expedition] | 229 |
| [Whale Sound, Greenland] | 233 |
| [Dr. Kane] | 236 |
| [Morton Discovers the Open Sea] | 241 |
| [Esquimaux Snow Houses] | 244 |
| [Kalutunah] | 245 |
| [Cape Alexander, Greenland] | 249 |
| [The Home of the Eider Duck] | 252 |
| [Godhavn, a Danish Settlement in Disco Island, Greenland] | |
| [The Schooner, United States, at Port Foulke] | 256 |
| [The House of the Hansa on the Ice] | To face page 260 |
| [A Young Bear chained to an Anchor] | 261 |
| [The Sun at Midnight in the Arctic Regions] | 264 |
| [The Funeral of Captain Hall] | 269 |
| [Start of Lieutenant Payer’s Sledge Expedition] | 272 |
| [Fall of the Sledge into a Crevasse] | 273 |
| [View of Cape Horn] | 277 |
| [Lisbon in the 16th Century] | 281 |
| [Bartholomew Diaz on his Voyage to the Cape] | 284 |
| [Christopher Columbus] | 285 |
| [Caravels of Columbus] | 288 |
| [Columbus’s First Sight of Land] | 289 |
| [Discovery of the Isle of Spain] | 292 |
| [Reception of Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella] | To face page 293 |
| [Ancient Gold-washing at St. Domingo] | 293 |
| [Columbus under Arrest] | 297 |
| [View of Calicut in the 15th Century] | 300 |
| [Vasco da Gama] | 301 |
| [Ojeda’s Attempted Escape] | 305 |
| [The Death of La Cosa] | 309 |
| [Arrival of Ojeda and his Followers at the Indian Village] | 312 |
| [Ferdinand de Magellan] | 317 |
