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INDEX. 



Whale Sound, enormous glaciers of, 50. 

 White-fish, or Coregonus, of North America, 310, 



:ni. 



White Seu, Castreii's journey to the, 170. 



-, Chancellor's discovery of the passage from 



England to the, 192. 



, an English expedition in the, 33G. 



Whymper, Frederick, travels in Alaska, 277-289. 



Wilkes, Captain, his discoveries in the Antarctic 

 Ocean, 402. ' 



Wilkes's Land, discoveiy of, 402. 



Williwaws of the Strait of Magellan, 412. 



Willoughby, Sir Hugh, his voviige and death, 336. 



Willow, polar (Salix polari-''), of Nova Zenibla, 153. 



-, dwarf, of the treeless zone, 21. 



, dwarf, on tlie shores of the rivers and lakes, 24. 



A\'ind-hole Sirait of the Dutch navigators, 339. 



Winds, eflects of the cold sea-winds on vegetation, 

 .22. 



, influence of the, on an Arctic climate, 27, 



Winter Harbor, Parry's winter in, 345. 



IVinteria aromatica, the, 410. 



AVitchcraft and witches of the Laplanders, 158. 



Wolf, its attack of the reindeer, 37, .38. 



, Lapp mode of hunting the, 164, 



in Newfoundland, 378. 



Wolverine. See Glutton, 



-, fur of the, 316. 



Wood, length of time necessary for the formation 

 of, in the Arctic regions, 25. 



Woman, dying, abandoned, 462. 



Wrangell, Lieut, von, his services as an Arctic ex- 

 plorer, 233. 



Wrangell, his journey to the chores of the Polar 



sea, 234. 



, his winters at Kolymsk, 238. 



, his night on the Polar sea, 239, 



, his danger, and return to St. Petersburg, 241- 



243. 

 Wrestling for a wife among the Tinne Indians, 330 ; 



and among the Kutchin Indians, 332. 



Yenisei river, importance of. 17. 



Yermak Timodajcft", the Cossack robber, 192. 



, his conquest of Siberia and death, 194. 



, his monument in Tobolsk, 194, 195. 



York roads, beauty of, 412. 

 Yukon river, 278-289, 



, ice in, 283. 



Yukon, fort, 284. 



Zkmbla, Nova, vast ice-fields of, 27. 



, mean temperature of, in summer and winter, 



27. 



, the narwhal of the seas of, 60, 



, the walruses of the coasts of, 64. 



Zinzendorf, Count, his interest in Greenland, 384. 

 Ziwolka, the Russian steersman, his voyages, 149, 



150. 

 his meteorological observations, 150. 



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