Novo-Kholmogorui, lxx

Nuffelen (Hans van), clerk to W. Barents, assists in killing a bear, 64

Nunez, see Balboa

Ob, or Oby, a river of Tartary, instructions given to Bassendine and others for a voyage to it, lxxiii;
discovered by the English before 1584, lxxxiii, lxxxv;
visited by Alferius, xcii;
his description of it, xciii;
great masses of ice at its mouth, xciv;
its wonderful inhabitants, xcvii;
Nai and Linschoten imagined they had reached it, cx, 36;
visited by the Russians, 55

Observations, see Latitude and Longitude.

Ode upon Waygats or the Strait of Nassau, to the tune of the 42nd psalm, cxxiii

Oesel, Island, xiii

Oliver, see Alferius

Onega, river, vii

Oom (Lambert Gerritsz.) commands the Swan on the second expedition, cxii

Orange Island or Ostrov Golets, 51

Orange (Islands of) cix, 25, 194

Palliser (Captain), sails to the North Coast of Novaya Zemlya, xli;
reasons for his not circumnavigating it, ib.;
enters the Kara Sea through Matthew’s Straight, xlii

Pampus, 13, 174

Parhelia, see Mock-suns

Passage to China by the north-east, see North-east

Pechora, a river of Tartary, 55;
voyage of discovery to it by Bassendine and others, lxxi;
visited by Alferius, xcii;
Oliver Brunel lost there, xcvii

Pet (Arthur), Barents’s “Journal” a translation of his and Jackman’s, v, lxii;
commissioned by the Russia Company for a voyage to the north-east, lxxv;
sails from Harwich, lxxvi;
his course after separating from Jackman, lxxvii;
first enters the Yugorsky Shar, lxxviii;
which should therefore be called Pet’s Strait, ib.;
impeded by ice in the Kara Sea, lxxviii;
again joined by Jackman, ib.;
they decide on returning, lxxix;
arrives safe at Ratcliff, lxxx;
defence of his character as an able navigator, lxxxi

Pet’s Strait, called by the Dutch the Strait of Nassau, and by the Russians Yugorsky Shar, xxxiii, lxxviii

Petchora river, Brunel’s ship with cargo wrecked there, xiv

Petermann (Augustus), his track of Barents’s third voyage incorrect, xvii;
never followed by any known ship, xxv;
lays down Barents’s track, cix;
his observations thereon, ib.;
and on the geography of Novaya Zemlya, cxl

Philip of Spain, his war against the Dutch, iii

Phillip (William), remarks on his translation of De Veer’s work, clxxii;
other works translated by him, clxxiii [286]

Plancius, Cape, xcv, 219

Plancius (Peter), maintains the existence of an open Polar sea, xxxiii;
one of the promoters of the first expedition, civ;
his opinion as to Linschoten’s report, cxi;
assists in the preparations for the second expedition, 41;
persists in the opinion that the passage could be effected, cxxvii;
his biography, 41

Poems, see Ode

Polar sea, existence of an open Polar sea maintained by Plancius, xxxiii

Polarstern, schooner commanded by F. E. Mack, xliv

Pontanus, reference to Barents’s chart in his “History of Amsterdam”, xxvi;
and his “History” generally, xxix

Prinsen, Hof, the Court of Admiralty of Amsterdam, 256

Protest signed by the officers of the second expedition, cxx;
erroneously supposed not to have been signed by Barents, ib.

Proverbs and Sayings (Dutch), 106, 135, 159, 165, 174, 183, 196, 245

Purchas, his reference to Oliver Brunel, xv, xcix;
writings of Barents preserved by him, cvi, 273

Quale (Captain P.), his voyage in the Yacht Johan Mary, xliv

Quas, a beverage among the Russians, 249

Randolph (Thomas), ambassador at the court of Russia, his instructions to Bassendine and others, lxxii

Red Bay, xxvii

Refraction (Atmospheric) extraordinary, cl, clv, 145, 147, 151

Regina, schooner commanded by M. Gundersen in 1875, lxii

Reindeer exist in Novaya Zemlya, clxxiii, 5, 83, 104

Reyniersz (Ian), see Buysen

Rijp (Ian Cornelisz.), one of the supercargoes on the second expedition, cxiii;
and in the third expedition, cxxvii, 71;
disputes between him and Barents as to the course to be taken, xxviii, xxix, cxxix, cxxxi, 72, 75, 85;
separates from Barents, cxxxi, 85;
his course after separating from Barents, xxix;
proceeds up the West Coast of Spitzbergen, xxx;
sails to Kola and returns to Holland, xxx, cxxxiii;
meets again with Heemskerck and his crew, and assists them, 252

Rock crystal found in States Island, 37

Rose Island, vii, xii

Roslin (Helisarius), his book on the wrong directions of previous expeditions to the North-east presented in 1610 to the States-General, xxxiii

Rosmuislov, a Russian pilot, winters in Matochkin Shar, lxxxvi

Rotgansen, see Brent-geese

Rotterdam (town of), sends out one vessel on the second expedition, cxii

Roule (Cornelis), Dutch walrus-hunter, xxxix

Rundall (Thomas), his claim on behalf of Sir Hugh Willoughby, lxvi

Russia Company, first chartered, lxviii;
obtain an Act of Parliament, ib.;
send out expeditions for the discovery of a north-east passage to China, lxviii;
Stephen Burrough’s expedition, ib.;
commission to Bassendine, Woodcocke, and Browne, lxxi;
instructions to Pet and Jackman, lxxi, lxxv;
their continued endeavours to effect a passage, lxxxii

Russia, Richard Chancellor goes to the court of, lxvii

Russian expeditions, account of in the “Archiv für Wissenschäftliche Kunde von Rusland”, xxxvii

Russians cannot claim the discovery of Novaya Zemlya, lxvii;
their explorations to the eastward of the White Sea, xci

St. Clara (Islands of), 34

St. James’s Island, lxix

St. John (Cape), lxix

St. Lawrence Bay, 32, 223

St. Lawrence Point, 32

St. Michiel (monastery), xii

St. Nicholas Bay, see White Sea

Salingen (Simon van), an Antwerp merchant, vi;
sails from Kola to the White Sea in 1566, and travels overland to Moscow, vii

Salt-hills, see Cordova

Samoyedes, dwell on Vaygats Island, xciii, 57;
their country, 53;
dress, 58;
sledges, 59;
idols, lxix, 60

Samson, schooner commanded by Capt. Ulve, xliii

Sayings (Dutch), see Proverbs

Scala (Josephus), Ephemerides printed by him, 145

Sconce Point, 32, 223

Scoresby (Capt., now Rev. Dr.), reference [287]to his “Account of the Arctic Regions”, 18, 26

Scotchman, one of the crew on the second expedition, 64

Scurvy, sufferings of the third expedition from, cxliii, 152, 224, 249

Scurvy-grass, benefit derived from it, 226, 227, 235, 244

Sea-horse, see Walrus

Sea of Kara, see Kara Sea

Searchthrift, a vessel sent out under command of S. Burroughs for an expedition to the north-east, lxviii

Seven Islands, 246

Seynam or Senyen (Island of), its situation, lxvi;
Willoughby’s erroneous estimate of its distance from Novaya Zemlya, lxxiv

Shallow Bay, cxxxviii

Shar, or Schar, its meaning, 31

Shetland, 71

Shieldrake, see Burrow-duck

Shrove Tuesday kept by the Dutch in Ice Haven, 156

Siberia, its coast seen from Novaya Zemlya, 162

Sir Thomas Smith Bay, xxviii

Sloets (President of the States General) signs the instructions given to Linschoten on the second voyage, cxiv

Snow, house covered up with, cxlii, 135, 138, 151, 153, 169

Soundings off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, cxli

Spanish words adopted by the Dutch, 12, 204

Spitzbergen, its name given by Barents, xx;
why so called, ib.;
the name not mentioned by De Veer, xxiii;
first discovered by the Dutch, cxxx, 77;
supposed to be a part of Greenland, cxxx, cxxxii, clviii, 5, 82;
its discovery wrongly attributed to Sir Hugh Willoughby, ib.;
circumnavigated by the Dutch, cxxx;
Rijp sailed back to it, cxxxi;
H. Gerard’s history of it, ib.;
pretended journal of Barents, ib.;
his track falsified by Gerard, cxxxiii (but see xxiii, et seq.);
name of the sea between it and Novaya Zemlya, cxl

Splindler (Mr. Christoffel), a Slavonian, interpreter to the first expedition, civ;
the same to the second expedition, cxiii;
his duties, ib.

Spoon-wort, see Scurvy-grass

Spruce-beer, 114

States-General send out an expedition to the north-east, xcix;
send out a second expedition, their instructions for that expedition, cxii, cxiii, 42;
object to send out a third expedition, cxxvii, 70;
dedication to them of De Veer’s work, clvii

States Island, 37, 62

Staves (Cask) found in Novaya Zemlya, 33

Sterrenburgh (Jacob Jansz.), one of the crew who returns to Holland, 257

Stream Bay, 29

Strickbolle (Pieter Dirksz.), pilot under Nai, civ

Strogonovs, their residence in Novaya Zemlya, 33

Sun, the time of day determined by its bearing, 7;
its disappearance for the winter, cl, 121;
its reappearance, cxliv, 143, 145;
mistake of one day in the time, ib.;
Mr. Vogel’s investigation of the subject, 146;
proofs of De Veer’s veracity as to its disappearance, cxlix;
reasons for believing him as to its reappearance, clv

Surgeon, see Barber

Survivors on the third voyage, 257

Svyatoi Nos, lxix

Swan (the), one of the ships of the first expedition, ciii;
also of the second expedition, cxii, 63

Swedish shipwright employed to build two ships in the Dwina, xiii, xci, xcii

Tabin (Cape) see Taimur

Table given by De Veer, of the distances performed on their third voyage, cxxxiv, 200–203

Taemsz. (Corn.), translator of Gonzales de Mendoza’s work on China, lxi

Tail (Island with the), 65

Taimur (Cape), cx, 37, 149

Tegethof, steamer commanded by Lieutenant Weyprecht in 1872, xxxix

Ter Schelling, an island on the north coast of Holland, the native place of Barents, cv

Tetgales (Brant), commands the Mercury of Enkhuysen on the first expedition, civ;
sails for Vaigats, cvii;
meets with Barents, cx;
vice-admiral of the second expedition, cxii;
his ship runs aground, 47;
runs foul of Barents’s ship, 48;
returns to Holland, cxxii

Texel, cxv, 39, 43

Thorne (Robert), maintains the possibility of a route straight across the pole, xxxiii

Tides in the Kara Sea, Barents’s notes thereon, 273 [288]

Tiele (P. A.), reference to his opinion as to Barents’s course along the coast of Spitzbergen, xxv;
shows the chart published by Hondius to have been after a drawing by Barents himself, xxvi

Time correctly kept by the Dutch during their winter residence, cxv

Time of day, rude method of determining it, 7

Torell (Cape), xxv

Torkildsen (F.), commander of the schooner Alpha, xliii;
loses his ship in Kara Bay, ib.

Train Oil Bay, cxv, 53, 56

Translation, curious mistakes in, lxxxiii, lxxxviii, cv, clxxii, 12, 32, 33, 39, 55, 79, 166, 182

Traps set to catch foxes, 125

Trocknes Cap, see Dry Cape

Tromp (Admiral), v

Trampsoe, or Trompsont, an island on the coast of Norway, 46

Troost (Cape), see Comfort

Trust (Cape), see Comfort

Twelfth Night kept by the Dutch in Novaya Zemlya, 138

Twist Point, 55;
see Cape Dispute

Ugoria, part of the coast of Russia, xciii

Ugorian Strait, see Yugorsky Shar

Ulve (Capt. E. A.), sails in the Samson along the W. coast of Novaya Zemlya, xliii;
his track, xliv

Unekius, see Yacovius

Unknown Bay, xc, cxxxvii

Vaigats, or Vaygats Island, lxvii;
proper spelling and meaning of the name, xliv, lxxvii, 27

Vaigats Strait, first entered by Pet, lxxviii;
properly Pet’s Strait, ib.;
not passable on account of the ice, lxxiv;
called by the Dutch the Strait of Nassau, cx;
ode on it, cxxiii;
see Expeditions

Valck (Jacob) aids in fitting out the first expedition, ciii

Van de Wal (Ernst), see Wal

Variation, see Compass

Veer (Gerrit de), see De Veer

Veroue Ostrov, a name given to Vaigats Island, lxxvi

Vlamingh (William de), Dutch walrus hunter, xxxix;
Witsen’s account of his voyage to Novaya Zemlya, ib.;
sails in 1664 along its N. coast, xl;
rounds the N.E. point, ib.;
M. de Jonge’s remarks on the voyage, ib.

Vlie, or Vlieland, 71

Vogel (Edward), his calculation of the conjunction of the moon and Jupiter, clv;
of the longitude of the winter residence of the Dutch in Novaya Zemlya, cxl, 146

Vos (Hans), barber-surgeon to the third expedition, 193;
returns to Amsterdam, 257

Vos (Pieter Pietersz.), chief boatswain on the third expedition, 191;
returns to Amsterdam, 257

Voyages, see Expeditions

Waigats, or Waigatsch, see Vaigats

Wal (Ernst van de) requests the States General to fit out an expedition in 1611, xxxiv;
appointed supercargo to the ship De Vos, ib.

Walle (Jan van de) journeys overland to Russia with Brunel, xi;
acts as agent to G. van Eychelenberg, ib.;
the first Netherlander who visited the White Sea, cii;
his dispute with Horsey at the court of Moscow, ib.

Walruses met with at Novaya Zemlya, 14, 25, 218;
description of, 25;
one brought to Holland, 39

Wardhuus, its situation, 39;
the ships arrive there on their return from the second expedition, 69

Warsina, a river of Lapland, Sir Hugh Willoughby perished there, lxv

Watchers, two stars in the Little Bear (Ursa Minor), why so named, 62

Waygats, see Vaigats

Weyprecht (Lieut.), commands the steamer Tegethof in 1872, xxxix;
fails in rounding Novaya Zemlya, ib.

Whale seen, 45

White Island, xli, xl

White Sea, Dutch commerce established, xi;
first entered by Stephen Burrough, lxvii;
crossed by the Dutch in two boats, 241

Wieringen, an island on the coast of Holland, 79

Willemsz. (Laurens), one of the crew who returns to Amsterdam, 257

Willemsz. (Thomas), commands the Mercury, of Enkhuysen, on the second expedition, cxii

William, the name of Jackman’s ship, see Jackman

William’s Island, cxxxviii

Willoughby (Sir Hugh) sails on an expedition to the north-east, lxv;
meets with a violent tempest, and is driven into a small haven on the coast of Lapland, where he dies, ib.;
discovers Novaya Zemlya, lxvi;
his [289]erroneous estimate of the distance between Senyen and Willoughby’s Land, lxxiv

Willoughby’s Land, part of the western coast of Novaya Zemlya, lxvi, lxxiv, 88

Wine frozen, 127

Winterköning (Philip), instrumental in founding the Dutch settlement at Kola, vi

Winthont, see Greyhound

Witsen (Nicholas), his account of the whaling cruise of William de Vlamingh in 1664, xl;
comments thereon, ib.;
his reference to Oliver Brunel, xcix

Wood, commander of an English Expedition in 1676, xxxvii

Woodcocke (James), his commission from the Russia Company, lxxi

Yacovius (or Yakov) and Unekius, build two ships in the Dwina for discoveries to the north-east, xci

Yakan (Cape), cix

Yenisei, a river of Tartary, its course, 55

Ys (Theunis, or Antonis), master of a trading vessel, who visited Novaya Zemlya, xxxix, xc

Ysbrants (Brant), see Tetgales

Yugorsky Shar, see Vaigats Strait

Zeeland (merchants of), join in fitting out two ships for the first expedition, ciii;
send two ships on the second expedition, cxii

Zivolka (a pilot in the Russian navy), his discoveries on the coast of Novaya Zemlya, cxxxiv