TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS
BAYLY, Captain George
Was an officer aboard the Patrick (Capt. DILLON) which in the New Hebrides in 1827 found wreckage which established the fate of LA PÉROUSE.
- "Sea life 60 years ago..." London / 1885 / Kegan, Paul, Trench.
BAYLY, William
1737-1810
Astronomer. With Cook in 1772 and 1776.
BAYNARD, Capt. Charles H.
Circumnavigation, 1812-1816.
See SNOW.
BEAMAN, Ardern George Hulme
1857-1929
Arabist, war correspondent (Egypt and Sudan).
- "Twenty years in the Near East." 1898.
BEAMONT, William John
1828-1888
Missionary to Palestine and Army chaplain in the Crimea. Pubs.
BEATIS, Antonio de
See: LUIGI OF ARAGON, Cardinal
BEAUFORT, Rear-Adm. Sir Francis
1774-1857
Naval hydrographer and cartographer after whom the Beaufort wind-scale is named (likewise the Beaufort Sea). His survey of the coast of southern Turkey (ancient Lycia) made in 1811-12 is considered a model of its kind. See his
- "Karamania" 1817.
BEAUJOUR, Felix de
- "Tableau de commerce de la Grèce." Paris / 1799.
BEAUVAU, Henri de
fl.1600
- "Relation journalière du voyage du Levant faict et descrit par messire Henry de Beauvau..." Paris / 1608.
- Another ed. (cat. RCS) Nancy / 1615 / Jacob Garnich.
BEAVER, Capt. Philip, RN
1766-1813
- SMYTH, Rear-Adm. William Henry: "Life and services of Capt. P. Beaver of HMS Nisus." 1829.
See also: PRIOR, Sir James
