. . . . . . 372
LIII. FRANKLIN'S LAND JOURNEY TO THE NORTH . . . . . . . . . . 382
LIV. PARRY'S POLAR VOYAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
LV. THE SEARCH FOR TIMBUKTU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
LVI. RICHARD AND JOHN LANDER DISCOVER THE MOUTH OF THE NIGER 399
LVII. ROSS DISCOVERS THE NORTH MAGNETIC POLE . . . . . . . . . 403
LVIII. FLINDERS NAMES AUSTRALIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
LIX. STURT'S DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
LX. ROSS MAKES DISCOVERIES IN THE ANTARCTIC SEAS . . . . . . 428
LXI. FRANKLIN DISCOVERS THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE . . . . . . . 432
LXII. DAVID LIVINGSTONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
LXIII. BURTON AND SPEKE IN CENTRAL AFRICA . . . . . . . . . . . 450
LXIV. LIVINGSTONE TRACES LAKE SHIRWA AND NYASSA . . . . . . . 456
LXV. EXPEDITION TO VICTORIA NYANZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
LXVI. BAKER FINDS ALBERT NYANZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
LXVII. LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
LXVIII. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
LXIX. NORDENSKIOLD ACCOMPLISHES THE NORTH-EAST PASSAGE . . . . 501
LXX. THE EXPLORATION OF TIBET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
LXXI. NANSEN REACHES FARTHEST NORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
LXXII. PEARY REACHES THE NORTH POLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
LXXIII. THE QUEST FOR THE SOUTH POLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

DATES OF CHIEF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

Ptolemy's Map of the World about A.D. 150 . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
Taken from the first printed edition of 1472 and the Rome
edition of 1508.

FACING PAGE
The Polos leaving Venice for their Travels to the Far East . . . 118
From a Miniature at the head of a late 14th century MS. of the
_Travels of Marco Polo_, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The original, made by RICHARD DE HALDINGHAM, Prebendary of
Hereford, hangs in the Chapter House Library, Hereford
Cathedral.

Map of the World drawn in 1500, the first to show America . . . . 168
By JUAN DE LA COSA.

The Dauphin Map of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .