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Index
Note: numbers in brackets preceded by n are endnote numbers.
Achilles (Chilean naval brig), 1
Acushnet (whaleship), 1
Adams, John, 1
Adams, Will, 1
Admiralty, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Confidential Handbook, 1, 2;
Hydrographic Office, 1
Adventure (HMS), 1, 2, 3
Aguas Buenas (Más a Tierra), 1
air travel, 1, 2, 3, 4
albatross, 1, 2
Aldus Manutius, 1
Alejandro Selkirk Island, see Más Afuera
America see United States
American Civil War, 1
American Pacific, 1, 2, 3, 4
American War of Independence (1776–82), 1, 2, 3
Amsterdam (Holland), 1, 2
Anna (storeship), 1, 2, 3
Anson expedition, 1, 2, 3; and Anglo-Spanish relations, 1;
and arrival of storeship, 1;
and buried treasure myth, 1, 2;
and cleaning/repair of ship, 1, 2, 3;
diet of, 1;
fails to find Más a Tierra, 1;
and filth/disease on ship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and French intelligence, 1, 2;
gardens created, 1, 2, 3;
and later writers, 1, 2, 3, 4;
library of, 1, 2, 3;
on Más Afuera, 1;
as national/universal possession, 1, 2;
rescued by Tryal, 1;
return of, 1, 2, 3;
and Robinson Crusoe, 1;
and scientific expeditions, 1, 2;
and scurvy, 1, 2;
ships/goods captured by, 1, 2, 3;
and Spanish, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
survey/record of island by, 1, 2;
and voyage literature, 1;
voyage to Más a Tierra, 1;
and Wager expedition, compared, 1
Anson expedition, voyage narratives of, 1, 2; official account of, see Lord Anson’s Voyage Round the World; and promotion of trade/British sea power, 1
Anson, Lord George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; attacks Manila/Havana, 1;
Barrow’s biography of, 1;
celebrity of 1, 2;
fortune acquired by 1, 2, 3;
plans occupation of Más a Tierra 1, 2;
plans world expedition 1;
and Shugborough/Moor Park 1
Anteus, 1
Antwerp, 1, 2
Argentina, 1, 2; and Falklands Islands 1, 2
arsenic, 1
Asia (HMS), 1
Asiento, 1, 2, 3
Astoria, 1
astronomy, 1, 2, 3
Atlantis, 1, 2
Atlas Maritimus (Seller), 1
Atrato (steam packet), 1, 2(n10)
Australia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Australia, HMAS, 1, 2, 3
Avery, John, 1
Aztecs, 1
bacalao, 1, 2
Bacon, Francis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Bahía del Padre/Horseshoe Bay (Más a Tierra), 1, 2
Bahía Pangal (Más a Tierra), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Banks, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Baron de Breueuil (French ship), 1
Barrow, John, 1, 2
Batchelor’s Delight (privateer), 1, 2
Beagle (HMS), 1, 2, 3
Bedford, Duke of, 1
Beechey, Frederick, 1
Belcher, Edmund, 1
Belle Sauvage (sealing ship), 1
Benito Cereno (Melville), 1
Bentley, Richard, 1, 2
Beresford, Lord Charles, 1
Bering Straits, 1
Betagh, William, 1, 2, 3
Betsey, 1
Bickford, Rear Admiral (Warspite), 1
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