Japan, 1, 2, 3
Jasus frontalis, 1, 2
Jenkinson, Charles, 1, 2, 3
Jervis, John, 1
Jesuits, 1
Jones, William, 1
Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean (Porter), 1, 2
Juan Fernández group, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Colnett’s survey of, 1;
fact/fiction blended in, 1;
first English encounters with, 1;
location of, 1;
on maps, 1;
as National Park, 1, 2, 3;
and Spanish Empire, 1;
tourism on, see tourism; and whaling industry, 1, 2;
see also Más Afuera; Más a Tierra; Santa Clara
Juan Fernández (island), see Más a Tierra
Juan Fernández rock lobster (Jasus frontalis), 1, 2
Juan, Jorge, 1, 2
Kennedy, Captain William (Reindeer), 1
Kent (HMS), 1, 2
King, Captain Philip Parker (Adventure), 1, 2, 3, 4
King of Pirates (Defoe), 1
Knapton, James, 1, 2(n4)
La Pérouse, comte de (Jean François de Galaup), 1, 2
Lady Washington, 1
Larrain, Dom Joachim, 1
Le Maire, Jacob, 1, 2, 3
Legge, Henry, 1
l’Hermite, Jacques, 1, 2
libraries, onboard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lidger, Lewis, 1
Lima (Peru), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Lloyds of London, 1
Locke, John, 1, 2
London (UK), 1, 2
Lord Anson’s Voyage Round the World (Walter/Robins), 1, 2, 3, 4; Anson’s involvement in, 1;
captured Spanish material in, 1, 2;
French translation of, 1;
illustrations to, 1, 2, 3;
as navigation guide, 1, 2, 3, 4;
popularity of, 1, 2, 3;
as promotion of trade/exploration, 1;
Robin’s contribution to, 1, 2;
and Rousseau, 1;
trade/naval strategy in, 1, 2, 3
Luce, Captain John (Glasgow), 1, 2
Ludecke, Captain (Dresden), 1
Luxor, 1
Mackenna, Vicuña, 1, 2
Mackinder, Halford, 1
Madeira, 1
Madrid (Spain), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Magellan, Ferdinand, 1, 2, 3
Magellan, Straits of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; charting, 1
Malaspina, Alejandro, 1, 2, 3
Mandeville, John, 1
Manila galleon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Manila (Philippines), 1, 2
maps/charts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9(n7); captured from Spanish, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and Defoe, 1;
and South Sea Bubble, 1;
and voyage literature, 1, 2
maquis (shrub), 1, 2, 3
maritime world view, 1, 2, 3, 4
Markham, Clements, 1, 2, 3(n6)
maroons, see castaways
Marquesas Islands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Melville on, 1, 2
Marryat, Frederick, 1
Más Afuera, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; anchorage dangerous at, 1, 2;
despoiled by sealers, 1;
Enderby’s Cove, 1;
in First World War, 1, 2, 3;
invasive species on, 1;
legal title to, 1;
name changed to Alejandro Selkirk Island, 1;
as navigational marker, 1;
prisoners on, 1;
seals on, 1;
and Selkirk myth, 1;
survey/recording of, 1
Más a Tierra islanders, 1, 2, 3, 4
Más a Tierra (Juan Fernández/Robinson Crusoe Island): abandoned settlements on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Aguas Buenas, 1;
air travel to, 1;
airstrip on, 1, 2;
American ambition for, 1;
and Anglo-Chilean relations, 1, 2, 3;
archaeology of, 1, 2;
Bahía del Padre, 1, 2;
Bahía Pangal, see Bahía Pangal/Horseshoe Bay; birds of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and blending of fact/fiction, 1, 2;
and Britishness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and buried treasure myth, 1, 2, 3;
cemetery on, 1, 2, 3, 4;
as Chilean territory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
as cornucopia/paradise, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Cumberland Bay, see Cumberland Bay;
discovery of, 1;
Dutch on, 1, 2, 3;
earthquakes/tsunamis on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
ecological devastation of, 1, 2, 3;
El Yunque, see El Yunque; failure to locate, 1, 2, 3, 4;
fire on, 1;
in First World War, 1, 2, 3;
flora/fauna of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
French ambitions for, 1;
gun emplacements on, 1;
introduced species on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
isolation of, 1, 2;
landscape/scenery of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
legal title/ownership claims on, 1, 2, 3;
magical/mythic status of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
maps/illustrations of, 1, 2, 3;
modern facilities on, 1;
modern journey to, 1;
name changed to Robinson Crusoe Island, 1;
newspaper reports on, 1;
penal colonies on, see penal colonies; and pirates, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
place names/land markers on, 1;
prisoners on, see penal colonies; proposed settlements on, 1, 2;
Puerto Inglese, see Puerto Inglese; Punta de Bacalao, 1;
recreation of England on, 1, 2, 3, 4;
remoteness of, 1, 2, 3;
as rendezvous point, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
as ruin, 1;
and San Félix/San Ambrosio, 1, 2;
San Juan Bautista, see San Juan Bautista; Santa Barbara, Fort, 1;
scientific expeditions to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
in Second World War, 1;
Selkirk on, see under Selkirk, Alexander; ‘Selkirk’s Mirador’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Sharp’s Bay, 1;
and South Sea Bubble, 1, 2, 3;
Spanish garrison on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Spanish occupation of, 1, 2;
Spanish survey of (1742), 1;
storm damage on, 1, 2;
strategic importance of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Sutcliffe’s governorship of, 1, 2;
timber/logging on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
tourism on, see tourism; and trade, 1, 2, 3, 4;
as watering stop, see water supplies; Windy Bay, see Windy Bay; as Worldwide Biosphere Reserve, 1;
wrongly located on maps/in books, 1
Maui, 1
medical care, 1; see also naval hospitals
Mediterranean, 1, 2, 3
Melanesia, 1
Melpomene (HMS), 1
Melville, Herman, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; and American identity, 1, 2;
as castaway, 1;
and Dana’s journal, 1, 2, 3;
and Juan Fernández islands, 1, 2;
on orgy on ship, 1;
and Robinson Crusoe/Gulliver’s Travels, 1, 2;
and scurvy, 1;
seafaring cousin of, 1;
and voyage narratives, 1;
whaling career of, 1, 2, 3;
writings on Galápagos Islands, 1
Mexican–American War (1846–48), 1
Mexico, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Millechamp, Lawrence, 1, 2
Milton, John, 1, 2
Minerva, 1
Miskito Indians, 1, 2
Mitchell, Captain (Gloucester), 1
Moby Dick (Melville), 1, 2, 3, 4; entomology section, 1, 2;
reception of, 1
Moll, Herman, 1, 2
Monmouth (HMS), 1
Monte Carmelo, 1
More, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Morgan, Henry, 1
Moseley, Henry, 1, 2
Moss, John, 1, 2, 3
Mulgrave, Captain Lord, 1
Murray, John, 1, 2, 3
mutiny/desertion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
myrtle trees, 1, 2, 3
Nantucket, 1, 2
Napoleon, 1, 2
Narborough, John (Sweepstakes), 1, 2, 3
naval hospitals, 1, 2, 3
Naval Intelligence Division, 1, 2
navigation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
errors in, 1, 2
Navigation Laws, 1
Negada, 1
Nereus (naval stores hulk), 1
New Atlantis (Bacon), 1, 2, 3, 4
New England, 1, 2
New South Wales (Australia), 1, 2
New Voyage Round the World (Dampier), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; full title of, 1(n11)
New Voyage Round the World (Defoe), 1
New York (US), 1, 2, 3, 4
New Zealand, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Niada, Pedro, 1
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1
nitrate exports, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Nootka Sound Crisis (1790), 1, 2, 3
Northwest Passage, 1
Nova Scotia, 1
Nuestra Señora de la Conceptión, 1
Nukahiva (Marquesas Islands), 1, 2
Oahu, 1
oceanography, 1, 2, 3
O’Higgins, Ambrosio, 1
O’Higgins, Bernardo, 1
oil, 1, 2
Omoo (Melville), 1
Orama (HMS), 1, 2, 3(n5)
Orduna, 1
Oregon Crisis, 1
Oregon (US), 1, 2, 3
Orinoco River, 1, 2
Osborne, Archibald, 1
Pacific Northwest, 1, 2
Pacific Ocean, 1; charting, 1
Pacific Station, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 1, 2
Pacific War (1879–1881), 1
Paddock, Captain Obed, 1
Paita, 1, 2, 3, 4
Panama, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Isthmus of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and piracy, 1, 2
Panama Canal, 1, 2
Panama Railway, 1
Paradise/Eden, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Paradise Lost (Milton), 1, 2
pardelas, 1
Parker, Hershel, 1
Patagonia, 1, 2, 3, 4
Patey, Rear Admiral, 1, 2, 3
Peard, Lieutenant George (Blossom), 1
Pearl, 1
penal colonies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Pendleton, Captain C.N. (Golden Rocket), 1, 2
Pepys Islands, 1, 2
Pepys, Samuel, 1, 2
Perseverance, 1
Persia (whaleship), 1
Peru, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; British trade with, 1, 2, 3, 4;
coastal defences of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Drake’s attack on, 1;
in First World War, 1;
liberation of (1823), 1;
and piracy, 1, 2, 3;
silver mines in, 1, 2;
Viceroy of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
war with Chile, 1
Philip, Arthur, 1
Philip V, 1
Phoebe (HMS), 1, 2
Phoenicians, 1
Pilgrim, 1, 2
pintados, 1
pirates, see privateers
Pitcairn Island, 1, 2
Pitt, William, the Younger, 1, 2, 3
Pizarro, 1, 2
Plato, 1, 2
Pocock, John, 1
Pollard, Captain George Jr, 1, 2
Popham, Captain Home, 1
Porcupine (HMS), 1
Porter, Captain David (Essex), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Portland (HMS), 1
Porto Bello, 1
Potosi (Bolivia), 1, 2, 3, 4
Powell, Commodore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Princess Royal, 1
Prinz Eitel Friedrich, 1
privateers/pirates, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; and Crown, 1;
and ending of trade, 1, 2, 3;
French perpetrators of, 1;
French victims of, 1, 2;
impact on Spain of, 1;
and investors, 1, 2, 3;
in literature, see buccaneer tales; maps/charts captured by, 1;
and mutiny/desertion, 1, 2;
and prize money, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and South Sea Bubble, 1;
Spain’s weak response to, 1, 2;
and War of Spanish Succession, 1, 2;
and whaling industry, 1
Prospero, 1, 2
Protestant Church, 1
publishers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Puerto Inglese (Más a Tierra), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Punta de Bacalao (Más a Tierra), 1
Purchas, Samuel, 1, 2, 3
Quirós, Fernández de, 1, 2
rabbits, 1, 2, 3, 4
Racoon (HMS), 1
radio stations, 1, 2
railways, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rainier, Admiral Sir Peter, 1
Rainier, Peter, 1
Raleigh, Walter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and Defoe, 1, 2, 3;
and El Dorado, 1
Ramsdell, Charles, 1
Ranke, Leopold von, 1
Rappahannock, 1, 2
rats, 1, 2
Rattler (HMS), 1
Reformation, 1
Reindeer (HMS), 1
religious experience, 1, 2
Ridgely, Captain Charles (Constellation), 1
Rieggel, Otto, 1
‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (Coleridge), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Ringrose, Basil, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1, 2, 3
Robin (Miskito Indian), 1, 2
Robins, Benjamin, 1, 2, 3
Robinson Crusoe (American schooner), 1
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; and Britishness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
and colonialism/trade, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Crusoe’s cave in, 1;
and Des Brosses, 1;
disputed authorship of, 1;
and ending of privateer era, 1;
impact in Europe of, 1;
and later voyage narratives, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and Melville, 1, 2;
as multilayered text, 1;
and Raleigh, 1;
relocation of island in, 1;
sequel to (King of Pirates), 1;
translations of, 1;
see also Crusoe, Robinson; Friday, Man
Robinson Crusoe Island, see Más a Tierra
robinsonades, 1, 2, 3, 4
Roebuck (HMS), 1
Rogers, Captain Woodes (Duke/Duchess), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; and Selkirk, 1, 2, 3, 4
Roggeveen, Jacob, 1, 2
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1, 2, 3, 4
Royal Geographical Society, 1, 2
Royal Navy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; and scurvy, 1, 2;
survey vessels, 1;
and whaling, 1, 2, 3;
see also Admiralty; seapower, British
Royal Society, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sacramento, 1
sailors: black, 1; Cook’s man-management of, 1;
and disease, see disease; and drunkenness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
literacy of, 1;
and madness, 1, 2;
medical care for, 1, 2, 3
St Esprit (French ship), 1
St George (privateer), 1, 2, 3, 4
St Joseph (French ship), 1
St Mary’s Island, 1
Samoa, 1, 2
San Ambrosio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
San Félix islands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
San Félix–San Ambrosio archipelago, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
San Francisco (US), 1, 2, 3, 4
San Juan Bautista (Más a Tierra), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
sandalwood, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sandwich, Lord, 1
Santa Barbara, Fort (Más a Tierra), 1
Santa Clara, 1, 2, 3
Santa Cruz, 1
Santa Rosario, El, 1
Santaella,
Juan Navarro, 1
Santiago (Chile), 1, 2, 3
Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro de, 1
Saumarez, Philip (Centurion), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Saunders, Captain Charles (Tryal), 1, 2
Schouten, Willem, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
scientific voyaging, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, see also botany expeditions
Scotland, 1, 2, 3, 4
Scott, Robert Falcon 1, 2
Scott, Samuel, 1
Scouler, John, 1, 2
scurvy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; on land, 1;
mental symptoms of, 1, 2, 3;
and notion of sea as unhealthy, 1;
and sensory perception, 1;
and Sick and Hurt Board, 1;
vitamin C cure for, 1, 2, 3, 4
Scylla (HMS), 1
sea lanes, see shipping/trade routes
sea lions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
as food, 1, 2, 3
sea otter pelts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
sea stories, see voyage literature seals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
fur/skins, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
as meat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
oil from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
seapower, American, 1
seapower, British, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9(n10);
in First World War, 1, 2;
and Raleigh, 1;
and ‘Second’ British Empire, 1;
and voyage narratives, 1;
and whaling industry, 1
seapower, Dutch, 1
seapower, Spanish, 1, 2
Second World War, 1, 2
Selden, John, 1, 2
Selkirk, Alexander, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; as British, 1, 2, 3;
cave of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
and Christian morality, 1, 2;
Cooke’s account of, 1;
Cowper’s poem on, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Crusoe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
death of, 1;
and Defoe, 1, 2, 3;
‘lookout’ of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
maroons himself, 1, 2;
modern searches for, 1;
myths surrounding, 1, 2, 3;
plaque to, 1, 2, 3;
popularity/influence of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
religious/spiritual experience of, 1;
rescued, 1;
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