INDEX. 



Air, of the, 38 



Abbe, town in Greenland, 189 



Anauavieh, name given by the English 



to part of Greenland, 215 

 Animals of Greenland, 190, 197 

 Appel, (Michael), 12 

 Arctic coal-fish, 158 

 Arctic fox, 80, 145 

 Arctic skua, 66, 69, 156 

 Arctic tern, 73, 157 

 AiTnenians, carried by tempest to 



Greenland, 184 



Bear, anecdote of his cunning attempt 

 to take a walrus, 144 



Bear harbour or bay, 12, 25 



Bears' flesh, feast of, and conse- 

 quences, 144 



Beautiful colour of the ice mountains 

 in Greenland, 185 



Beehive, hill at Spitzhergen so called, 

 22 



Bell sound, 260, 261 



Beluga, northern, 101, 150 



Bert-Iver, maitre d'hotel to the Bisho]) 

 of Greenland, 192 



Birds, abundance of, 18 ; take refuge 

 in the ship, 27 ; with toes or divided 

 feet, 57 ; with broad or web feet, 00 



Bird's islands, 22 



Bird's song island, 24 



Bishops of Greenland, list of, in the 

 " Specimen Islandicum " of Angri- 

 mus Jonas, 189 



Black Guillemot, 63, 154 



Black pestilence of 1348, 210 



Bloserken, another name for Hind- 

 serken, 185 



Boats of the Greenlanders, 223 ; won- 

 derful skill in managing them, 224 



Bottle-head, a small wliale, 100, 149 



Bremen, arclibishop of, copy of tlie 

 hull constituting him Metropolitan 

 of all the North, 188 



Brent goose, 151 



Brudifiord, 192 



Brunnich's Guillemot, 154 



Bui'germeister, or glaucous gull, 67, 156 

 Buts'copf, or Places' Head, 100, 149 



Cape Farewell, 183, 184 



Cathedral of Greenland, 189; its pos- 

 sessions, 191 



Christian I. King of Denmark, 212; 

 Christian II., his cruelties, 213; 

 Cliristian III., tries the passage to 

 Greenland, and fails, ib. ; Christian 

 IV., takes great interest in the dis- 

 covery of Greenland, 218 



Christianity introduced into Green- 

 land, 188 



Christopher of Bavaria, 212 



Christopherson, Claudius, a priest, 

 composer of the Danish Chronicle, 

 184 



Clifted Eock Island, 24 



Climate of Greenland, 205 



Colours of the sea, 31 



Common guillemot, 64, 154 



Common mackarel, 158 



Common seal, 140 



Cookery of Haarlem, 23 



Crawfish (sea) without a tail, 91 



Crow's-foot, (plant) 48 



Crustaceous fish, 91 



Cuneate tailed gull, 156 



Curious altars, etc. found by Captain 

 Munck, 242 



Danes, harbour of, at Spitzhergen, 7, 

 13, 21 



Danish chronicle, 183 



Davis Straits, ib. 



Deadmaii's island, 22 



Deer or Muscle bay at Spitzhergen, 12 



Deer, 20 



Devils Huck, a lai'ge high moiuit at 

 Sjutzbergen, 22 



Diver, great northern, 154 ; red- 

 throated, ib. 



Diving parrot or puffin, 71, 154 



Diurnes, first chiucli in Greenland, 

 191 ; country belonging to it, 192 



Dolphin, of the, 99, 150 



Dragon fish, 99, 158 



