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Venice, its rapid rise, and the cause thereof, pp. 235-8

——, exorbitant demands of, for shipping supplied for the Fourth Crusade, p. 243

——, galleys of, rob Alexandria of the body of St. Mark, p. 465

—— raises a fleet to suppress the Istrian and Dalmatian pirates, p. 465

——, annual ceremonial at, of the espousal of the Adriatic, p. 475

——, laws and commercial policy of, liberal, but, on the whole, protective, p. 479

——, special laws of, excluding from participation in her trade, German, Hungarian, or Bohemian merchants, pp. 479-480

——, character and extent of its arsenal, p. 482

——, tradition of enormous ship built there, A.D. 1172, and probability that she was so constructed, pp. 483-5

——, [a fixed number of young and indigent nobles sent with each ship, p. 494

——, rejoicings at, when a ship was ready to start on its voyage, p. 500

Venetian Merchant Ships, value of their cargoes, p. 495

Venetians, in agreeing to carry Crusaders to Holy Land, demand an exorbitant freight, with leave to establish factories, p. 472

——, complaint against, on part of the troops employed on shore at siege of Tyre, p. 474

——, the Pope grants the dominion of the Adriatic to the, A.D. 1159, p. 474

——, contract by, to supply ships for Louis of France, A.D. 1268, pp. 485-486

Vienne, Sir John de, with a French fleet, plunders the English coasts from Rye to Plymouth, p. 432

Vikings of Scandinavia, account of, and of their remarkable skill as seamen, pp. 331-5

—— occupy the Hebrides, sea-lochs of the Highlands, and the north of Ireland; discover America (Vinland), and cruise along the Mediterranean to Constantinople, pp. 334-5

Vikings of Scandinavia, ancient clinker-built boat of, discovered in Denmark, pp. 335-7

Vincent, The Rev. Dr., doubts any circumnavigation of Africa before that of the Portuguese, p. 84

——, reply to his argument on this subject, pp. 85-6

Vinisauf, Geoffrey de, describes the crusading fleet of Richard I., pp. 376-8

Vossius's discussion of ancient rowing in his "Construction of Ancient Ships," pp. 271-3


Waghen, John de, of Beverley, privateering commission granted to, p. 432

Warwick, Earl of, "the King-maker," piratical attack by, on a fleet of Genoese merchantmen, p. 454

Wealth of England at the time of the Conquest almost wholly in the hands of the great ecclesiastics, pp. 367-8

West, Evidences of land to the, recognisable in objects washed upon the western shores of Madeira, p. 563

Whales caught as far south as Biarritz, p. 391, note, and Append. 8, p. 648

William the Conqueror, character and number of vessels with which he invaded England, pp. 362-3

——, his fleet, really of inferior vessels, small in size and hastily put together—not, perhaps, unlike the present Lerwick fishing-boats, pp. 363-4

——, state of commerce, &c., in England when he invaded it, and taxation of different towns unequal, and on no determinate principle, pp. 365-372

——, remarkable decay of many leading towns during his reign, as shown by the returns of his "Domesday," pp. 371-2

—— greatly increases the power of the English fleet mainly by aid of the Cinque Ports, p. 374

Winds, periodical, in Persian and Arabian gulfs and in Indian Ocean, favourable to early navigation in boats of small capacity, p. 3