Scoresby, William, 81, 126, 142 Scotland, survey, 103 Scott, Capt. R. F., 131, 133 Scroggs, John, 78 Scylax of Caryanda, 12 Semliki River, 113 Senegal, 109 Shackleton, Sir E., 131, 132 Shetland Islands, 37 Shirley, Sir Anthony and Robert, 71 Siberia, 44, 72, 80 Sicily, 7 Sidon, 7 Sierra Leone, 52 Sission, Jonathan, 97 Smith, William, 128 ----, Leigh, 125 ---- Sound, 78, 124, 128 Snell, Willibrord, 93 Society Is., 85, 87 Sokoto, 109 Solis, Juan Diaz de, 62 Somaliland, 110 Soto, Hernandez de, 66 South America, 56, 62, 66, 67, 82 Southern Continent, 81, 83 South Orkney Is., 128 South Shetland Is., 84, 128 Spaniards, 60, 63 Speed, John, 102 Speke, T. H., 110 Spitsbergen, 75, 79, 124, 127 Spruner, K. von, 137 Stanford, Edward, 138 Stanley, H. M., 112, 113 Stefansson, 128 Stein, Sir M. A., 116 Stieler, A., 137 Stony Desert, 120 Strabo, 18, 24, 141 Stuart, J. M., 121 Sturt, Charles, 119, 120 Submarine cable, 142 Sudan, 114 Suess, E., 139 Suleiman, 40 Supan, A., 137, 139 Surveying, 93, 102, 135 Sverdrup, 127 Swartha, Claudius Clavus, 55 Sydney, 117 Syene, 22 Syria, 71 Tachard, P., 72 Tahiti, 87 Tanais, River, 14, 21, 37 Tanganyika, Lake, 111, 112 Tasman, Abel Janszoon, 70, 83 Tasmania, 70, 117 Terror, Mt., 130, 131 Texeira, Pedro, 67 Thales of Miletus, 8 Theodolite, 97 Theophanes of Mytilene, 24 Theophrastus of Lesbos, 20 Thompson, Sir C. Wyville, 143 Thomson, Joseph, 113 Thule, 21 Thury, Cassini de, 104 Tibet, 44, 71, 73 Tierra del Fuego, 67, 84 Timbuktu, 109 Toll, Baron, 127 Tongan Archipelago, 84, 88 Torrens, Lake, 120 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 Xenophon, 17 Yenisei, River, 80, 125