PORTKAITS. 



Engraved on Steel by G. J. Stodart of London. 



Adolf Erik ITordenskiold ...... To face Title-page. 



Oscar Dickson ......... ,, Page 1 



Alexander Sibiriakoff . . . . . . . ,, ,, 3 



Louis Palander ........ ,, ,, 450 



LITHOGEAPHED MAPS. 



1. Map of North Europe, from Nicholas Donis's edition of Ptolemy's 



Cos)nogra2)hm, Ulm, 1482 . .43 



2. Map of the Nortli, from Jakob Ziegler's Schondia, Strassburg, 1532 . 44 



3. Map of North Europe from Olai Magni Historia dc gentium septcn- 



trionaliuTn variis conditionibus, Basil, 1567 . . . . .45 



4. Russian Map of the North Polar Sea from the beginning of the 17th 



century, published in Holland in 1612 by Isaac Massa . . . 181 



5. ilap sho\ving Barents' Third Voj'age, from J, L. Pontani Ecrum et urbis 



Avistelodamounum historia, Amst., 1611 ..... 190 



6. Map of Port Dickson, by G. Bove. Map of Cape Bolvan on Yaygats 



Island, by the author. The Lena's cruise in Malygin Sound, by 



A. Hovgaard. Slap of Cape Chelyuskin, bj- G. Bove . . . 243 



7. Sketch- Map of Taimur Sound ; Map of Actinia Bay, both by G. Bove . 252 



8. Map of the Eiver System of Siberia 283 



9. Herbertstein's Map of Russia, 1550 (photolithographic facsimile) . . 517 

 10. Map of the North Coast of the Old TTorld from Norway to Behring's 



Straits, with the track of the Vega, constructed from old and 

 recent sources, and from observations made during the Voyage of 

 the Vega, by N, Selander, Captain in the General Staff . . 740 



