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INDEX. 



Snefiel-rock of snow, 186 



Snite, or purple sandpiper, 57, 101 



Snow and meteors, 40, 44 



Snow bird, or snow bunting, 58, 150 



South harbour or bay, Spitzbergen, 12, 

 13, 18, 21, 23 



South-west land, 25 



Spiny lump-sucker, 158 



Spitzbergen, first sight of, 4 ; arrival 

 at, 7 ; home voyage from, 13 ; exter- 

 nal face and appearance of, 10; ha- 

 vens, 18; birds, 26.; medicinal herbs, 

 ib.; sea horses, z'&.; ice mountains, (7;., 

 20 ; animals, 20 ; hills and islands, 

 22 ; old Dutch settlement, 23 ,• river 

 at South Harbour, 23 ; islands, 24, 

 25 ; the sea, 26 ; the ice, 32 ; the 

 air, 38 ; the winds, 30 : the sun does 

 not set from tlie 3rd of May till tlie 

 2nd of August, 38, 40 ; meteors and 

 snow, 40, 44 ; plants, 45 ; animals, 

 57 ; birds with toes or divided feet, 

 ib.; broad, or web-footed birds, 60; 

 four-footed creatures, 79 ; crustace- 

 ous fish, 91; finned fish, 97; the 

 whale, 105 ; finn-fish, 132 ; rotz 

 fishes and sea qualms, 134 ; ap- 

 pendix to, 143; Leonin's account of, 

 233 



Star fish, 94, 95 



Stomias ferox, 158 



Stone-crap, herb like, 50 



Storluson Suorro, Icelandic chroni- 

 cles, 184 



Storm, signs of, 28 



Strawberry, herb like, 53 



Strosnes church, formerly the metro- 

 politan residence of the Bishop of 

 Greenland, 192 



Strunt-jager, or dung-hunter, 69, 156 



Sun (the) does not set from the 3rd 

 of May till the 2nd of August, 38, 40 



Sword-fish, 102 



Talguestin,curiotxs stone so called, 191 

 Torwald, a gentleman of Norwav,father 



of Eric tlie Red, 184 

 Train oil, i^reparation of, 130 



Unctuous sucker, 158 



Unfortunate pilot who went for gold 

 and brought back sand, 228, 229 



Unicorn or narwhal, 102, 149 ; dis- 

 cussion respecting, 198, 205 



Valkandor, Eric, chancellor to Chris- 

 tian II, afterwards archbishop of 

 Dronthem, 213 



Vestrebug, dwelling built by Ei'ic, 186 ; 

 name afterwards given to the west 

 of Greenland, 189 



Vogelsanck, (bird's song) 12 



Vormius, Dr., his opinion respecting 

 the Skreglingres, 193; argument on 

 the unicorn, 199 ; on the commerce 

 of Greenland, 1484, 211; his evi- 

 dence concerning the original in- 

 habitants of Gi'eenland, 248 



Voyage from Norway to Greenland, 208 



Walrus, or morse, 80, 146 ; adven- 

 ture with a bear, 144; anecdote of 

 a mother and young one, 147 



Warmth of the weather in July, 40 



Weigate, or Weighatt, or straits of 

 Hindelopen, 10, 11, 25 



Whales taken, 0, 7, 8 ; encounter with, 

 9; others caught, 10, 11; dead, a 

 defence for the ship against the ice, 

 34 



Whale, of the, 105 ; how to catch the, 

 110; what they do mth the dead, 

 125; common, 149; j)ike, 26. 



White bears, 11, 20, 34, 80, 143 



White fish, Northern Beluga, 101, 150 



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