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Asia, migration from 2, 3, 4, 7, 140 



Asmayda or Asmaida, location of 17, 25 



Athapascan Indians 3,5, 140 



" Atillie " (the word) on Pizigani map 1367 59 



Atlantic Ocean 3, n, 17, 18, 26, 35, 46, 74, 107, 130, 163 



Atlantis, legend of 10, 18 



Avalon Peninsula 108, 109, 156 



Avezac, M. de 8, n, 16, 18, 24 



Ayllon, de, Colony of 63 



Azores 8, 9, 10, n, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 128, 162 



Aztecs 6, 156 



Back Bay, Boston, Hop at 48, 49, 136 



Bacon, E. M., cited 45, 46, 131 



Baffin Bay, miniature monument at 43 



Baffin Land. Thorfinn at 5, 54 



Bahamas, asserted early visits to 14, 15 



Ballads in Saga 79 



Bancroft, H. H., cited 7, 157 



Bandelier, A. R, on use of sling 156 



Bardsen, Ivar, relief expedition in 1337 39, 78, 94, 143 



Baron of Castine, mentioned 49 



Basque fishermen, voyages of 9, 49, 52, 174 



Bear Island, Greenland 33, 97 



Beauvois, E., cited 29, 40 



Beccaria's (Becharius) map (1435) considered 19,20,25 



Behaim globe (1492), inscription as to Antillia 19 



Belle Isle Strait 108, in, 156 



Benincasa Map ( 1482) considered 19, 25 



Beothuk (Beothik) Indians in Newfoundland...^, 6, 42, 109, 121, 144, 



153, 154, 156 



Bering Strait 2, 144 



Bermudas, possible early visits to 12, 26 



Bertran, G., map considered 19 



Bianco Map ( 1436) considered 19, 20, 25, 26 



Biarni, death of 105 



discovery by 69 



Biarney Island 33, 108, no, 162 



Biggar, H. P., cited 33 



Biorn, lost Saga of 28, 29, 160 



Biornsland 54 



Bird Islands 61, 62, 102, 119, 120, 162 



Bison, American, former distribution of 147, 148, 149 



Blacksark, Greenland 66 



Bleekman and Newton cited 107 



Blome, R., cited 108 



Blood feud in Iceland 31 



Blowguns 157 



Boats, Eskimo and Indian 139, 150, 157 



Boats, Norse 100, 101, 108, 1 12, 159 



Boggild, R, cited 48 



