Abbott, Jacob, 10.
Acre, 50;
Siege of, 71, 81;
assault on the town, 83;
arrival of Richard I., 89;
surrender of Acre, 97;
heroic incidents of siege, 87, 88, 93, 94.
Adams, John Quincy, 256;
memoirs of, 256.
Adventures, Captain Bonneville’s, 256.
Albany, 156.
Aleppo, 66.
Algonquins, the, 143, 157, 158, 159, 160.
Alpine Club, 8, 9.
Apaches, the, 158.
“Arabian Nights,” 31;
Lane’s translation of, 31, 32.
Astoria, 256.
Athapescans, the, 158.
Aurora Borealis, 170.
Balbeck, 66.
Bancroft’s History of the United States, 157.
Beaver, the, 170-178;
habitat of, 170, 171;
dams of, described, 172;
beaver-houses, 173, 174;
absurd stories concerning, 175;
hunting the beaver, 177, 178.
Bertrandon de la Brocquière, 45;
joins the Crusaders, 46;
their route, 46;
travelling in the desert, 47;
reaches Gaza, 48;
pilgrimage to Nazareth, 49;
the town of Acre, 50;
gardens of Jaffa, 51;
in Damascus, 52;
Baruth, 53;
Mount Tabor, 55;
description of a caravan, 58;
the shrine of Mohammed, 59;
Damascus blades, 61;
Turkish customs, 65, 66, 67, 68.
Bethlehem, 34.
Blue Hills, the, 8, 9.
Bohn’s Library, 33, 45, 71.
Bryant’s History of the United States, 127.
Buffalo-hunt, a, 273, 274.
Cabots, the, 102, 135.
California, origin of the name, 102.
Canary Islands, the, 188-193.
Caravan, description of, 58.
Casa Grande, 135.
“Cat,” a, 93.
Cathay, the Chan of, 37-43.
Cevola, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136.
Charles V., Emperor of Germany, 103.
Chateaubriand, François, Vicomte de, 255.
Clements, Alberic, death of, 93, 94.
Cleveland, Captain, early history of, 221, 222;
buys a packet-boat in Havre, and starts out to see the world, 221;
his first crew, 221;
some novel experimenting with the compass, 224, 225;
a Prussian grenadier, 225, 226;
a group worthy of Hogarth, 226;
adventure with an English frigate, 227;
encounter with a privateer, 228, 229;
arrives at Cape of Good Hope, 231;
is suspected of being a spy, 232;
further difficulties encountered, 233-236;
sells vessel and cargo, 236, 238;
a voyage in South American waters, 238;
arrives at Valparaiso, 238;
difficulty with the Spanish Governor, 239, 240;
arrested, 243;
further hostilities, 244-246;
boarding the Hazard, 246, 247;
calls on the Governor, 248-250;
final leave-taking, 251, 252;
Captain Cleveland at sixty-seven concerning himself, 237, 255.
Cleveland’s Travels, 220, 221;
opinion of his book, 237;
extracts from, 221-237, 238-252.
Columbia River, discovery of, 255.
Columbus, Christopher, 37, 101, 102.
Conversation, Uncle Fritz’s rules for, 9.
Coronado, Vasquez de, expedition of, 128, 129, 135;
discovery of the Gila River; Casa Grande, 135;
Civola, 136, 137;
description of the country, and its people, 136-139.
Cortes, Hernando, 101, 102, 103;
extracts from letters of, 103-125;
attack on colony of, at Vera Cruz, 104;
uprising in city of Mexico, 104, 105, 106;
Montezuma, attempting to pacify the Indians, is wounded to death, 106;
Cortes retreats to Tacuba, 115;
is defeated at Tacuba and Indian allies are slain, 116, 117;
again retreats, 117, 118;
Cortes as an explorer, 118-125.
Cow-tree, the, 204.
Crusaders, the, 45-68;
the Third Crusade, 71-100.
Cyprus, taking of, 90.
Dakotas, the, 263-269.
Damascus, 51, 52;
blades of, 61.
Dana, Richard Henry, 237.
Defoe, Daniel, 185.
Dobell, Peter, travels of, 277-308.
Electrical eels, method of fishing for, 208, 209.
Eliot, John, Apostle to the Indians, 158.
Ephrata, _see_ Bethlehem.
Fra Marco, 127;
a prince of liars, 129;
his remarkable account of the country he explored, 129-135;
Coronado’s opinion of Fra Marco, 136.
Frederic Barbarossa, 73, 74, 77, 78;
tragic death of, 79, 80.
Fulton, Robert, 256.
Gay’s History, _see_ Bryant’s History of the United States.
Gila River, 135.
Goeffrey of Vinsauf, 69, 71.
Goupil, René, 144, 145, 146, 147.
Greek fire, 85.
Guy, King of Jerusalem, 80.
Hakluyt, quoted, 129.
Hazard, the, 239;
seizure of 246, 247.
Hearne’s Travels, 159, 160;
extract from, 160-183.
Henry II. of England, 72, 89.
Hudson’s Bay Company, 184.
Humboldt, Alexander, early history of, 184, 185;
Travels of, 185;
visits Washington, 185;
extract from his own account of his travels, 187;
his fondness for the sea, 187;
love of Nature, 188;
plans to study the Western Continent, 188;
arrives at the Canaries, 188;
the volcanoes of Teneriffe, 189-192;
Orotava, 192;
flocks of canaries, 192, 193;
the Southern Cross, 193, 194;
Manzanares, the, 194;
bathing in, 195;
pearl-oysters of the South American coast, 195;
South American scenery, impressive character of, 197;
Caripe, convent of, 199;
preaching to the Indians, 199;
Cumana, 200, 201;
encounter with an Indian, 201, 202;
aromatic shrubs, 203;
the cow-tree, 204;
howling monkeys, 205, 206;
a search for drinking-water, 206, 207;
electrical eels, 208;
crocodiles, 209;
jaguars, 210, 211;
a primitive South American grandee, 211-213;
a midnight concert in the forest, 214;
the Land Beyond the Great Cataracts, 216-217;
interlocked rivers, 218-219.
Hurons, the, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 149, 150.
Indians, division into families, 157, 158, 159;
dialects of, compared, 158, 159;
Indians of the North, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 181,
182, 183;
an Indian Robinson Crusoe, 178, 179, 180.
Iroquois, the, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153,
154, 157.
Irving, Washington, 256.
Itinerary of Richard I., 71;
extract from, 71-100.
Jaguar, the, 210, 211.
Jefferson, Thomas, 185, 252, 254.
Jesuits, Society of, 141, 142.
Jogues, Father Isaac, 142;
sent as missionary to New France, 142;
travels to Quebec, 143;
homeward journey, 143;
is attacked by hostile Iroquois, and captured, 143, 144;
capture of René Goupil, 145;
suffers the most cruel tortures, 145, 146, 147;
captivity, 148, 149, 150;
his escape is planned, 151;
escapes, and is concealed on a ship bound for France, 152, 153;
voluntarily gives himself up, 154;
release from captivity, 154;
Dutch Governor makes terms with the Iroquois, 154;
Massacre at Schenectady, 155, 156.
Kamtchadales, the, 282, 283.
Kamchatka, Dobell’s travels in, 277;
the Kamtchadales, 282, 283;
Prince Zachar, 283;
the reindeer, 284;
sleeping in the snow, 285;
sleighing in May, 287;
among the mountains, 290;
lost in a wilderness, 294-308.
Kublai Khan, 15, 19-26.
Lady Oliver House, 7.
Lewis and Clarke, expedition of, 255, 258.
Loadstone, 35, 36.
Long, Major S. H., 257;
commands government-expedition to the Northwest, 258;
route ordered, 258;
object of journey, 259;
relics of the mound-builders, 259-263;
meets with Dakota Indians, 263-265;
Indian banquets, 266, 267;
speech of the Chief, 268, 269;
encounter with hostiles, 269-273;
a buffalo-hunt, 273, 274.
Mandeville, Sir John, 10, 31;
travels of, 31;
sources of his tales, 32;
selections from, 34-43;
why Sir John did not tell about Paradise, 43, 44.
Manhattan, 154.
Manzanares, the, 194, 195.
Mecca, 58, 59.
Mendoça, Don Antonio de, 128, 133.
Minnesota, state of, 256, 257.
Mississippi, source of, 257.
Mohammed, shrine of, 59.
Montezuma, 106;
children of, 114, 117.
Moorish feast, a, 53.
Moose-hunting, 180, 181.
Moquis, the, famed for their cakes, 139, 140.
Narvaez, expedition of, 129, 255.
New York, province of, 156.
Nolan, Philip, 254.
Northwest, the, 253-274.
Ohio, mounds of, 260-263.
Oregon, claim to, 255.
Oregon trail, the, 256.
Orinoco, the, 206, 207, 216, 217, 218, 219.
Orotava, 189, 192, 193.
Parkman, Francis, 142, 256.
Peabody Museum, the, 127.
_Petrariae_, 91, 92, 95.
Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 45.
Philip II. of France, 72, 90, 91, 93.
Pizarro, Gonzalo, 103.
Plutarch’s Lives, 70.
Polo, Marco, 10, 11;
Col. Yule’s edition of, 11, 30;
Irving’s account of, 11;
his father and his uncle, voyages of, 11, 12;
the Great Khan, 12;
Marco Polo sets out on his travels, 12;
return after twenty-four years, 12;
reception to his countrymen, 13;
is taken prisoner, 13;
begins to write the story of his wanderings, 14, 15, 16;
Persia and the Three Wise Men, 16, 17, 18;
Cublay Khan, 19;
the rebellion of Nayan, 20;
Caidu, 20;
battle between Nayan and the Khan, 22, 23;
Nayan’s defeat and surrender, 24.
Post-houses, 26-29, 102.
Post-houses in Tartary, 26-29.
Pottery, Indian, 127, 128.
Pueblos, 128, 129, 132, 136, 137.
Richard I. of England, 72;
landing of, at Acre, 89;
joins forces with the King of France, 90, 91, 92, 99;
Turkish estimate of, 99, 100.
Rio Negro, 219.
Robinson Crusoe, 185, 275;
the New, 185, 186;
further adventures of, 276, 277.
Roses, origin of, 34.
Royal Mendicant, story of, 35.
St. Paul, Vision of, 53.
Saladin, 71, 74, 75, 77, 80, 82, 83, 95, 96, 99.
Schenectady, 155, 156;
massacre at, 155;
early American ballad about the massacre, 155, 156.
Siberia, 275;
a Siberian snowstorm, 278, 279;
Siberian hospitality, 279-281.
Sindbad the Sailor, Fifth Voyage of, 36.
Six Nations, the, _see_ Iroquois.
South America, travels in, 187-219.
Southern Cross, the, 193, 194.
Spanish claims, 239.
Tabor, Mount, 55.
Talisman, the, 70, 71.
Tamerlane, 52.
Tartars, the, 40, 41.
Teneriffe, volcano of, 188, 189;
the ascent of the Peak, 189-192.
Terrestrial Paradise, 37, 44.
Three Wise Men, the, 16, 17, 18.
Tobolsk, 277.
Turks, manners and customs of, 65, 66, 67, 68;
valor of, 94, 95, 96, 99.
Tyre, 81, 84, 85;
archbishop of, 72.
United States, northern boundary of, 256, 257.
Verrazzani, 102.
Vesuvius, Mount, 191, 192.
Vicar of Wakefield, 69.
Washington, government reports published at, 256.
Washington, Mount, 69.
Watts, Isaac, 253.
World, early maps of, 101, 102.
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