756 



INDEX. 



Vasa Murrhina, 577?i 



Vaygats Islaad, 62, 74 ; discovered, 164 ; 



visited by Pet, 174, 175 

 Veer, Gerrit de, 81 ; his book, 188_ 

 Vei^a, the, purchased, 6 ; description of, 



7 ; equipment of, 9 ; position when 



frozen in, 353 ; action of cold on 352 ; 



prepared for wintering, 354 ; repaired, 



693 ; sold, 740 

 Vessels, Norse, 42; Russian, on the 



Polar sea, 167 

 Vlamingh, 199 



Volcanic dust in Scandinavia, 251 

 Volcanoes, 587 



Vulpes layojmg, see Fox, Arctic 

 vulgaris, see Fox, common 



W 



WiERN, C. F., 6 



Waldburg-Zeil, Count, 157 



Walden Island, 88 



Walrus, 117 



Walton, Lieut., 548 



Wax tree, the Japanese, 688 



Wasel, Lieut., 547 



Weasel, 433 



Werchojansk, 310 



Werkon, the river, 550 



Weyprecht, 204 



Whales, on the coast of Norway, 41 ; 

 scarce at Novaya Zemlya, 129 ; fear 

 of, in ancient times, 129, 130; with 

 European harpoons, found in the Paci- 

 fic, 202, 203 



Whale bones on Spitzbergen, 129 ; sub- 

 fossil at Pitlekaj, 391, 392 ; used as 

 building materials, 566; at St. Law- 

 rence Island, 589 



Whale-fishing, described by Albertus 

 Magnus, 123 n ; at Spitzbergen, 129 



WTiale mummy at Pitlekaj, 393 



White-fronted goose, 97 



^Vhite Island, see Bell Ostrov 



White Sea, the, 164 



White whale, the, 63, 128 



Widmark, H. A., 424 ?i 



Wiemut, JuUan, 620 



Wiggins, J., portrait, 237, 239 



Wilkoffski, 577 n 



Willoughby, Sir Hugh, portrait, 11, 48, 

 49 



Willoughby's Laud, 51 n 



Wilui river, the, 306 



Wood, Captam, 200 



Woodcock, James, 176 n 



Wosnessenski, conservator, 606 



Wrangel, Ferdinand von, 20, 203, 337, 

 457 ; journeys, 556 ; portrait, 555 



Wrangel Laud, 19, 23, 338, 528 n, 551, 



556 ; landing on, 557 n 

 Wrestlers, Japanese, 653 

 Wulf Stan's travels, 42 



Yakovieva, 238 



Yakuts, 291, 520 n 



Yakutsk, 16, 19, 21, 23, 280, 281, 540, 



542, 544 

 Yalmal, excursion to, 154; visited in 

 1875, 157 ; population, 156 ; origm of 

 the name, 157 ; old accounts of, 156 ; 

 surveyed, 538 

 Yana river, the, 315 

 Yanimoto, 673 

 Yefremov Kamen, 285 

 Yekargauls, 375 

 Yelmert, 155 

 Yelmert Land, 158 



Yenisej,the, voyages of t\\e F reiser and 

 the Express up, 270; ascent of, in 

 1875, 293 ; river territory, 281 ; navig- 

 able, 283; its banks, 285, 286; 

 vegetation on, 287 ; steamers on, 298 ; 

 discovered, 520; Eussian navigation 

 on, in former times, 185, 186 ; Russian 

 sea, expeditions to, 538 ; Minin's 

 voyages on, 539 ; later voyages to, 237 

 Yermak, schooner, 217, 220 

 Yenisei, mouth of the, map of, 147 ; 

 formerly inhabited, 146 ; winter at, 150 

 Yettugin, 420, 449, 493 

 Yii gate, the, 696 

 Yinretlen, 365 



Ymer (steamer), 1,8 w, 238, 270, 271 

 Yokohama, 621 ; arrival at, 620 ; depar- 

 ture from, 693 

 Yokosuka, 693 

 Yoldia Artica, 152 

 Young, Sur Allen, 732 

 Yugor Schar, 11 ; expedition passes, 31 ; 

 rules for sailing through, 32; har- 

 bours in, 133; origui of the name, 131; 

 Pet did not sail through, 174, 175 ; map 

 of, 186 

 Yukagires, 455 



Yukagir dwellings, remains of, on the 

 New Siberian Islands, 556 



Zaritza (steamer), 272 n, 273 

 Zeno 44 « 



Ziegler's map of the north, 45 

 Zivolka, A. K., 216 ; portrait, 217 

 Zkcon, 713 



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