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INDEX. 



Hans Lichtenberg, 7 



Haresvint, gulf oi- strait, so named by 

 Captain Munck, 240 



Harp seal, 146 



Hart or deer, of the, 79 



Hat slime-fish, 13fi 



Havens of Spitzbergen, 7, 18 



Hay, (the) or shark, 103, 158 



Heigmingsen, Magnus, sent out by 

 Frederick II., 214 



Hellestad,royal house near the church 

 of Eynetsfiord, 191 



Henry, bishop of Garde, 189, 211 



Hemeven, island, 191 



Hilge-land, or Heligoland, 3, 14 



Himmelradsfield, large rock, 192 



Hiudelopen, straights of, 10, 11, 25 



Hitland, 14, 28 



Hooded seal, 146 



Horn in great abundance in Green- 

 land, 197 



House leek, 47 



Huai-f, name of promontory, 185 



Hudson, his discoveries mentioned, 

 237 



Hudson's Bay lemming, skeleton of, 

 147 



Huidserken, name of promontory, 185 



Ice, of the, 32 ; beautiful colour and 

 forms of the, 30, 37 



Ice mountains, 18, 20 



Ice bird, 59 



Icelandic chronicle, 184 



Icelandic heroes, their exploits re- 

 corded by Angrimus Jonas, 189 



Interesting account of the poor Green- 

 landers brought to Denmark and 

 most cruelly detained there, 223, 220 



Ivory gull, 02, 157 



" Jonas in the Whale," the ship, 3 

 Jonas, Angrimus, in his " Sjiecimen 

 Islandicum," gives a list of the 

 bishops of Greenland, 189 ; gives 

 the names of the viceroys of Green- 

 land and celebrates the Icelandic 

 heroes, ib. ; mentions the peace in 

 1201, 190 ; quotation from him, 193 ; 

 quoted again, 201 

 John Maien, island, 3, 25 



Ivindelfiord, on the west coast of 

 Greenland, 191 ; sea of, 193 



King eider duck, 152; care of their 

 young, ih. ; want of gallantry at the 

 end of the season, 153 



Kirmew, 01, 73, 157 



Kittiwake gull, 05, 157 



Kolding, governor of, punished for his 

 cruelty and avarice by the loss of the 

 poor savage through whom he hoped 

 to enrich himself, 220 



Korskirke, church so called, 19J 



Kuck's haven, 15 



Kutge-gehef or Kittiwake gull, 05 



Langen island, J 91 



Leiffe, son of Eric, goes to Norway 

 and becomes Christian, 187 ; takes 

 back a priest to Greenland to in- 

 struct Eric and the people, ih. ; is 

 called LeifTdenhepen the happy, ih. ; 

 is blamed by his father for his cha- 

 rity to some shipwrecked sailors, ih. ; 

 prevails on his father and his fol- 

 lowers to become Christians, 188 

 Lemming (Hudson's Bay), 147 

 Leonin, a Spanish naturalist, his ac- 

 count of Spitzbergen, 233 

 Lepeler, ship from Hamburgh, 

 Lesser garnels or shrimps, 93 

 Leifde bay (Bay of Love), 25 

 Lindenau, Danish admiral, goes to 

 Greenland, 218 ; his second voyage, 

 221 

 Little auk or common rotche, 68, 155 

 Louse of the whale, 93 

 Lurabs and other water fowl, 27 

 Lumb (the), or common guillemot, 04, 



158 

 Lunesfiord, 191 



Mackarel, 97,158 



Magdalen, hai-bour of, at Spitzbergen, 



7, 14,21 

 Magnus, king of Norway, 190 

 Mallemucke or Fulmar petrel, 75, 155 

 Mangelsen (George and Cornelius), 12 

 Margaret, queen of Norway and Den- 

 mark, her severity to mei'chants for 

 going to Greenland withoutleave,211 

 May-fly (sea), 135 

 Medicinal herbs, 18 

 Medusa?, immense numbers of, 170 

 Merchants of Copenhagen, their expe- 

 dition to Greenland, 227 ; trade with 

 the savages, 228 

 Mew, the, called kutge-gehef, 05 

 Mouse-ear, hei'b like, 52 

 Mountain duck, 01, 72, 151 

 Mukla Jokel,name of Huidserken, 185 

 Munck, Jean, Danish captain, 183 ; his 

 naiTative, 237 ; he leaves the Sound, 

 ih. ; enters Hudson's Straits, 238 ; 

 meeting with the savages, 239 ; 

 names various places, 240, 241 ; finds 



