Lauder, Richard, 109 Leachman, 117 Lefroy, H. M., 121 Lehmann, J. G., 101 Leichhardt, 120 Lemaire, Jacob, 84 Leon, Juan Ponce de, 63 Le Testu, Guillaume, 69 Lhasa, 72, 115 Limnology, 141 Littledale, St. George, 116 Liverpool Plains, 119 Livingstone, David, 112 Longitude, 97 Loubet Land, 132 Louisiana, 67 Louis Philippe Land, 129 Love, A. E. H., 139 Lualaba, River, 112 Luque, Hernando de, 66 McClintock, 124 McClure, 124 Mackenzie, Alexander, 78 ---- River, 78 McKinlay, T., 121 McMurdo Sound, 132 Macquarie, River, 118, 119 Madagascar, 44, 57 Madeira, 50, 52 Magalhães, Fernao de, 64, 82 Magellan. _See_ Magalhães Magnetic Pole, 123, 127 Magnus, Albertus, 43 Mahomed Ali, 110 Malacca, 68 Malay Archipelago, 44, 57, 68, 69, 70 ---- Peninsula, 5 Mam, Island of, 56 Manchuria, 89 Mandeville, Sir John, 45 Maoris, 2 Map-making, 2, 9, 12, 37, 41, 46, 54, 98, 137, 145 Marianne Islands, 65 Marinus of Tyre, 26, 40 Marion-Dufresne, 86 Marion Is., 86 Markham, 126 ----, Albert, 124 Marquesas Is., 83 Martianus Capella, 34 Masailand, 113 Masudi, 40 Maupertuis, P. L. M. de, 96 Mauro, Fra, 50, 55 Maury, Matthew F., 14, 20 Mawson, Dr. D., 132, 133 Mediterranean, the, 3, 5, 37, 39, 48, 58, 143 Melville Island, 123 Mendana, 83 Mercator, 98, 102, 103 Meridian, 22, 41 Meroe, 16 Mexico, 64, 65 Middleton, Christopher, 78 Mill, H. R., 106 Mitchell, Sir Thomas, 120 Moeris, Lake, 3 Moluccas, 60, 69 Monaco, Prince of, 144 Mongolia, 115 Moseley, H. N., 143 Mota, Antonio de, 69 Mountains of the Moon, 31 Muhammad ben Musa, 90 Münster, Sebastian, 105 Murray, River, 119 ----, Sir John, 141, 143 Murrumbidgee, River, 119 Muscovy Company, 79, 80 Musil, 117 Nachtigal, G., 114 Nain Singh, 115 Nansen, Fridtjof, 126 Nares, Sir George, 124, 143 Nasamonian youths, the, 16 Natal, 68 Nathorst, 127 Nearchus, 20 Necho, 5 Neckam, Alexander, 48 New Caledonia, 88 Newfoundland, 75 New Granada, 66 New Guinea, 69, 83, 87 New Hebrides, 83, 85, 88 New Pomerania, 84 New Siberian Is., 127 New South Wales, 117 Newton, Sir Isaac, 94, 105, 144 New Zealand, 70, 83, 87 Nicaragua, 64 Niebuhr, Carsten, 73 Niger, River, 16, 108, 109 Nile, River, 16, 31, 37, 49, 108, 110, 111 Nordenskiöld, A. E., 125, 126 Norfolk Is., 88 Norsemen, 37 North America, 2, 61, 67, 75 North American Indians, 2 North Cape, 75 North-East Passage, 78 North-West Passage, 76, 127 Norwood, Richard, 93 Nova Scotia, 75 Novaya Zemlya, 72, 75, 80 Ob, River, 80 Oceanography, 141 Odoric, 45, 71 Œcumene, 22, 23 Ohio, River, 66 Okhotsk, Sea of, 72 Orellana, Francisco de, 66 Orinoco, River, 61, 145 Orkney Islands, 37 Orléans, Prince Henry of, 116 Orontius, 82