. . . 234
Made by PIERRE DESCELLIERS 1546, by order of Francis I. for
the Dauphin (Henri II.) of France.

Barents's Ship among the Arctic Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
From a coloured woodcut in Barents's _Three Voyages_
(De Veer), published in 1598.

Ross's Winter Quarters in Felix Harbour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

The First Communication With Eskimos at Boothia Felix, 1830 . . . 404
From Drawings by ROSS in the _Narrative of his Expedition to
the North Magnetic Pole, A Second Voyage in Search of a
North-West Passage_, 1829-33.

Shackleton's Ship, the _Nimrod_, among the Ice in McMurdo Sound . 538
From _The Heart of the Antarctic_ (published by Heinemann), by
kind permission of Sir ERNEST SHACKLETON.

BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Ptolemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the end of
the 13th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

The Best Portrait of Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
From the original Painting by an unknown artist in the Naval
Museum, Madrid.

The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Amerigo Vespucci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
From the Sculpture by GRAZZINI at the Uffizi Gallery,
Florence.

Ferdinand Magellan, the first Circumnavigator . . . . . . . . . . 198
From the Engraving by FERDINAND SELMA.

Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to sail round the World . 252
After the Engraving attributed to HONDIUS.

The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Karakakova Bay, where Captain Cook was murdered . . . . . . . . . 334
From the Engraving in the Atlas to COOK'S _Voyages_.

The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Mungo Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
From the Engraving in PAR