IM)EX. 



285 



Eider-ducks, CI, 7'2, 151 



Elbe (the) to Spitzbergen, voyage 

 from, -i 



Englisli hai'bour at Spitsbergen, 7, 

 •21, -U 



Eric, the Eed, son of Torwald, IBi ; 

 discovers Greenland, 185 ; an island 

 which he calls Ericsun, 186; names 

 the country Groenland, ib. ; goes to 

 Iceland andinduces manj- Icelanders 

 to settle in Greenland, 187 ; is angry 

 with his son Leiffe for bringing 

 shipwrecked sailors to Grt?¥nland, 

 187 ; is converted to Christianity, 188 



Eric, king of Denmark, assists Mag- 

 nus, ] 90 



Eric, king of Pomerania, 212 



Ericsfiorden, port of Eric, 186 



Ericsun.name given to the islandfouod 

 by line, ib. 



Eynetsflord, 191 



Fair isle, 14 



Farewell, (Cape) 183, 184 



Fertility of Greenland, contradictory 

 accounts of, 195 



Finn-fish, or razor back, 5, 13, 132, 149 



Fish, crustaceous, 91 



Fishes, (finned) 97 



Foreland, Spitsbergen, 4, 14, 21 



Forked tailed gull, 1 57 



Fos, royal residence so called, 191 



Four-footed creatures, 79 



Foxes, 20, 3-i, 80, 145 



Frederick I., 213 ; Frederick II., at- 

 tempts the discovery of Greenland, 

 214 



Fresh water at South harbour, Spitz- 

 bergen, 23 



Frobisber, Martin, discovers Green- 

 land in 1577, 214 ; returns the fol- 

 lowing year, 215; adventures with 

 the natives, 216 



Frost hardest in April and May, 38 



Fulraer petrel, 75, 155 



Funcliebuder Port, Greenland, 19i' 



Gai'de,town built in the east of Green- 

 land, 189 



Garnels or prawns, 92, 160 



Glaucous gull or burgomaster, 67, 156 



Goodler, Captain William, 258 



Great northern diver, 154 



Green-harbour, 258, 259 



Greenland shark, 103, 158 



Greenland, description of, 183; its 

 boundaries, ib. ; con jectui-es respect- 

 ing, ib. ; elevation according to Cap 



tain Muuck, ib. ; two chronicles Ice- 

 landic and Danish, 184; said to be 

 discovered by some Ai'meuians, ib. ; 

 discovered by the Norwegian Ei-ic, 

 son of Torwald, ib. ; promontory 

 called Huarf, 185 ; beautiful appear- 

 ance of the ice mountains, i6.; named 

 by Eric Groenland, 186; Christianity 

 introduced by Leitfe, son of Eric, 

 188; arguments respecting the time 

 of discovery of Greenland, ib.; di- 

 vided into east and west, 189 ; towns 

 and monasteries, ib. ; bishops of, ib. ; 

 Norwegian viceroys, and Icelandic 

 heroes, i7>. ; revolts against Magnus, 

 king of Norway, 190 ; submits when 

 Eric king of Denmark sends an ex- 

 pedition against it, ib.; j)laces of 

 interest described, ib. ; conjectures 

 concerning the early inhabitants, 

 193 ; contracUctoiy accounts of its 

 fertility, 195 ; animals and birds, 

 196; fish, 197; Great abundance of 

 horn, ib.; climate, 205; northern 

 light, 206; voyage from Nonvay to, 

 208 ; black pestilence injures the 

 commerce, 210; succession of mis- 

 fortunes, during which the country 

 is lost sight of, 212; discovered by 

 Frobisher, 214; desci'iption of the 

 natives, etc., 215; Admiral Lin- 

 denau's voyage, 218 ; account of the 

 inhabitants, 218, 219 ; Lindenau's 

 second voyage, 221 ; Piichkardtsen's 

 voyage, 222 ; nine natives taken to 

 Denmark, 223 ; their boats, ib. ; 

 wonderful skill in managing them, 

 224 ; their unhappy fate, 225, 226 ; 

 further description of the natives, 

 227 ; expedition of the merchants of 

 Copenhagen, ib. ; trade with the 

 natives, 228 ; the old and the new, 

 230; Captain Munck's expedition, 

 237 ; described by Edward Pelham, 

 257 



Groenland name given by Eric to 

 Greenland, 186 



Guillemot, common, 64, 154; Bi-un- 

 nich's, ib. ; black, 63, 154 



Gull, cuneate-tailed, 156 ; glaucous, 

 67,156; forked-tailed, 156; Kitti- 

 wake, 65, 156 ; ivory, 62, 156 



Gundebiurne Skeer, half-way between 

 Greenland and Iceland, 209 



Habits of the snail slime fish, 166 

 Hakou, Earl, called the liich, 188 

 Halfmoon bay, 25 



Hamburghers, harbour of, at Spitz- 

 berg^ n, 7, 21 



