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 Rh Toscanelli, service to Columbia, 101.

Trinidad, 106, 108.

Tristan da Cunha discovered, 91.

Tristao, Nuno, Portuguese navigator, 86.

Tupaia, 14.

U.

Ung Khan (Prester John), 73.

V.

Vancouver, 138.

Vandals, 53.

Van Dieman's Land, 140, 142, 150.

Vasco da Gama. See Da Gama, Vasco.

Velasquez, Diego, governor of Cuba, 128.

Venezuela, "Little Venice," named by Vespucci, 108.

Venice, as centre of Eastern trade, 83, 119; effect of da Gama's voyage on, 92.

Vespucci, Amerigo, 108, 118.

Victoria Nyanza, Lake, discovered, 159.

Vikings, 57, 63.

Villalobos, Luis Lopez de, discoveries in Pacific Ocean, 141.

Vinland, 58.

Visigoths, 53.

W.

Waldseemüller, Martin, names America, 109.

Watling Island, 105.

Weddell, Antarctic explorer, 173.

Wentworth, Philip, explorations in Australia, 150.

Wiggins, Captain, Arctic explorer, 181.

Wilkes, Captain, Antarctic explorer, 73.

Wills, Australian explorer, 152.

Wolfe captures Quebec, 136.

X.

Xenophon, 24.

Xerxes, 36.

Y.

Yacut, Arabian geographer, 56.

Yule, Sir Henry, appreciation of Marco Polo, 69.

Z.

Zambesi River, exploration of, 154, 158.

Zamorin, King of Calicut, 92, 94.

Zarco, Joao Gonsalvez, Portuguese navigator, 86.

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