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. . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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