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dx">Carpenter, Nathanael, 105
  • Carpini, Joannes de Plano, 42
  • Carteret, Philip, 85
  • Carthage, 5
  • Cartier, Jacques, 66
  • Cartography. See Map-making
  • Caspian Sea, 30, 39, 49, 71
  • Cassini, J. and D., 95, 104
  • Catalan map, 50
  • Catalonians, 49
  • Cavendish, Sir Thomas, 67
  • Ceylon, 31, 50, 57
  • Chad, Lake, 109
  • Challenger, 130, 143
  • Champlain, Samuel, 67
  • Chancellor, Richard, 79
  • Charcot, J.B., 132
  • Chelyuskin, Lieut. T., 80
  • Chile, 66
  • China, 3, 30, 34, 43, 44, 71, 117
  • Chorography, 104
  • Chronometer, 97
  • Chrysoloras, Emanuel, 54
  • Cintra, Pedro de, 52
  • Clapperton, H., 109
  • Clarke, Capt., 122
  • Cluverius, Philip, 105
  • Coats Land, 132, 133
  • Cochin-China, 72
  • Columbus, Christopher, 56, 59
  • Compass, 48
  • Condamine, Charles de la, 96
  • Congo Free State, 113
  • —— River, 53, 103, 113, 114
  • Cook Archipelago, 88
  • Cook, Captain James, 78, 87, 103, 122
  • Coppermine River, 78
  • Cordova, Hernandez de, 64
  • Cortereal, Gaspar, 75
  • Cortez, 65
  • CovilhÃo, Pedro de, 53
  • Crates of Mallus, 23
  • Crete, 6
  • Harrison, John, 97
  • Hausaland, 109
  • Hawaii, 88
  • Hawkins, Captain, 70
  • Hayton, 43
  • Hearne, Samuel, 78
  • HecatÆus of Miletus, 11
  • Hedin, Sven, 116
  • Henry the Navigator, 51
  • Herodotus, 5, 11, 23, 30
  • Himilco, 6
  • Hiort, Dr. Johan, 144
  • Hipparchus, 22, 25
  • Hispaniola. See Haiti
  • Hollar, 102
  • Homann, 101
  • Homer, 7
  • Honduras, 61
  • Hooker, Sir Joseph, 146
  • Horn, Cape, 67, 82, 84
  • Houtman, Cornelis, 69
  • Howell, 119
  • Huber, C., 117
  • Hudson Bay, 67, 76, 80
  • —— Bay Co., 78, 123
  • ——, Henry, 76, 80
  • Humboldt, Alexander von, 67, 144
  • Hume, Hamilton, 119
  • Huygens, Christiaan, 94
  • Ibn Batuta, 46
  • Ibn Haukal, 40
  • Iceland, 37, 75
  • Idrisi, 40
  • India, 3, 13, 20, 31, 44, 45, 50, 54, 57, 68, 69, 71, 115
  • Indicopleustes, Cosmas, 35
  • Inglefield, Captain, 124
  • International Council for the Study of the Sea, 144
  • —— Geographical Congress, 138
  • Ireland, 30, 37, Phipps, Captain, 122, 142
  • Phoenicians, 4
  • Picard, Jean, 94, 101
  • Pigafetta, F., 99
  • Pines, Isle of, 88
  • Pinzon, Vicente YaÑez, 59, 62
  • Pizarro, Francisco, 66
  • Plane-table, 93
  • Plato, 18
  • Pliny the Elder, 26
  • Polo, Marco, 43, 69
  • Polybius of Megalopolis, 23
  • Polyhistor, Julius Solinus, 35
  • Pomponius Mela, 26
  • Pont, Timothy, 102
  • Portolano maps, 48, 50, 55
  • Portuguese, 51, 55, 60, 68, 79, 108
  • Posidonius the Stoic, 23, 72
  • Potamology, 141
  • Potanin, 116
  • Prester John, 53
  • Pretorius, Jean, 93
  • Prjevalsky, Nicolai, 116
  • Procopius, 34
  • Ptolemy, 26, 39, 54, 72
  • Putte, Samuel van der, 72
  • Pygmies, 7, 17
  • Pythagoras, 8
  • Pytheas of Massilia, 21
  • Quadrant, 91, 94
  • Queensland, 119, 120
  • Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de, 83
  • Rae, Dr. John, 124
  • Ramsden, 97
  • Ratzel, Friedrich, 145
  • Ravenstein, A., 137
  • Rawling, Capt. G.C., 116
  • Rebmann, T., 110
  • Red Sea, 5, 35
  • Regiomontanus, 97
  • Rennell, Maj. James, 104
  • Retes, Inigo Ortes de, 83
  • Retreat of the Ten Thousand, 17
  • Rhins, Dutreuil de, 116
  • Torres, 70, 83
  • —— Strait, 83
  • Torricelli, 93
  • Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzi, 56
  • Traverse Is., 128
  • Trinidad, 61
  • Triquetum, 90
  • Turkestan, 115
  • Turnagain, Cape, 123
  • Turner, Capt., 73
  • Tyre, 4
  • Uganda, 111
  • Ugyen Gyatso, 115
  • Unyamwezi, 111
  • Varenius, Bernhard, 105
  • Vernier, FranÇois, 93
  • Vesconte, Petrus, 49
  • Vespucci, Amerigo, 62
  • Victoria, 119
  • —— Falls, 112
  • —— Land, 130, 133
  • —— Nile, 111
  • —— Nyanza, 111, 113
  • Vinci, Leonardo da, 82
  • Vineland, 37, 75
  • Virgilius, Bishop of Salzburg, 36
  • Vlamingh, William de, 70
  • Volga, River, 30
  • Wagner, Hermann, 145
  • WaldseemÜller, Martin, 63, 103
  • Wallace, Sir Alfred Russel, 146
  • Wallis, Samuel, 85
  • Warburton, 121
  • Watling Island, 60
  • Weddell, James, 129
  • Wellby, Capt. W.S., 116
  • Welle, River, 114
  • Werner, 99
  • Western Australia, 121
  • West Indies, 60
  • Weyprecht, Lieut., 125
  • Whale fisheries, 80
  • White Nile, 108
  • —— Sea, 75, 79
  • Wiggins, Capt. Joseph, 125
  • Wilkes, Charles, 89, 130
  • William of Rubruquis, 42
  • Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 79
  • Wills, William, 121
  • Wilson, 131
  • Wissmann, 113
  • Wright, Edward, 99
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