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Frith Henry. Notable Voyagers, From Columbus to Nordenskiold
Notable Voyagers, From Columbus to Nordenskiold
Table of Contents
Introduction—A.D. 1486
Chapter Two
First voyage of Columbus—A.D. 1492
Chapter Three
First voyage of Columbus continued—A.D. 1492
Chapter Four
Second Voyage of Columbus—A.D. 1403
Chapter Five
Second voyage of Columbus continued—A.D. 1494
Chapter Six
Third voyage of Columbus—A.D. 1498
Chapter Seven
Fourth and last voyage of Columbus—A.D. 1502
Chapter Eight
Last voyage of Columbus, concluded—A.D. 1503–6
Chapter Nine
Voyage of Vasco da Gama, to find a way to India by sea, and to discover the Kingdom of Prester John—A.D. 1497
Chapter Ten
Voyage of Vasco da Gama, continued—A.D. 1498
Chapter Eleven
Voyage of Vasco Da Gama, continued—A.D. 1498
Chapter Twelve
Voyage of Vasco da Gama concluded—A.D. 1498–9
Chapter Thirteen
Voyage of Fernando Magalhaens—The discoverer of the Straits of Magellan—Round the world A.D. 1519–20
Chapter Fourteen
Voyage of Magalhaens, continued—A.D. 1521–2
Chapter Fifteen
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake round the world—A.D. 1577
Chapter Sixteen
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, continued—A.D. 1578
Chapter Seventeen
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, continued—A.D. 1579
Chapter Eighteen
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, continued—A.D. 1579–80
Chapter Nineteen
Voyage of Cavendish round the World—A.D. 1586
Chapter Twenty
Cape Horn first doubled by Schouten and Le Maire—A.D. 1615–17
Chapter Twenty One
Voyages and adventures of William Dampier—from A.D. 1674
Chapter Twenty Two
Dampier’s voyages, continued—A.D. 1686
Chapter Twenty Three
Dampier’s voyages, continued—A.D. 1699
Chapter Twenty Four
Anson’s voyage to the South Sea—A.D. 1740
Chapter Twenty Five
Voyages of Captain Cook—A.D. 1768
Chapter Twenty Six
Captain Cook’s Second Voyage—A.D. 1772
Chapter Twenty Seven
Captain Cook’s third voyage—A.D. 1776
Chapter Twenty Eight
Parry’s three voyages in search of a North-West Passage—A.D. 1819
Chapter Twenty Nine
Sir John Franklin’s expeditions
The Last Voyage of Franklin
Chapter Thirty
Dr. Kane’s voyage to the Polar Regions
Chapter Thirty One
The “Fox” Expedition
Chapter Thirty Two
The German and Austrian Expeditions to the Arctic Regions
Chapter Thirty Three
The voyages of Erik Nordenskïold—1870–1878
Chapter Thirty Four
Captain Hall’s Voyages
Chapter Thirty Five
Captain Sir George S. Nares’ voyage with the “Alert” and “Discovery”—1875–6
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William Henry Giles Kingston, Henry Frith
Published by Good Press, 2019
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As he foresaw the farther they sailed the more their vague terrors would increase, to deceive them, he kept two logs; one correct, retained for his own government, and the other open to general inspection, from which a certain number of leagues were daily subtracted from the sailing of the ships.
The crews, though no faint-hearted fellows, had not as yet learned to place confidence in him. The slightest thing alarmed them. When about one hundred and fifty leagues west of Ferro, they picked up part of the mast of a large vessel, and the crews fancied that she must have been wrecked drifting ominously to the entrance of those unknown seas.
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