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
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
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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.
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
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 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