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INDEX. 



Corniculariae, carpets of, and the treeless zone, 21. 

 Cortereal, his voyages of discovery, 325. 

 Cossacks, Don, their depredations, 192. 



, their conquest of Siberia for the Czar, 193. 



, their privileges and duties in Nishne-Ko- 



lynisk, 236. 

 Coureur des bois, the, of North America, 304. 

 Cranberries of the Arctic regions, 24. 

 Cree Indians, uses of the paper-birch- tree to the, 



305. 



, range of the various tribes of, 319. 



, their conquests of the Tinne, but subsequent 



defeat, 319, 320. 



, their wars with the Blackfeet, 320, 321 



• , their character, 321. 



■ , their customs, habits, and dress, 321, 322, 



323. 



■ , their wives and families, 323. 



, their cradles, 323. 



, their wigwams, or tents, 324, 



, their medicine-men and vapor-baths, 324. 



, their games and sports, 324, 325. 



, their wooden figures for worship, 325. 



, their malicious or capricious spirit, called 



Kepoochican, 325. 

 , their notion of the Great Spirit and of the 



Deluge, 325. 



■ , their Tartarus and Elysium, 325, 



, prospects of Christianity amongst them, 326. 



Cross, the game of, of the Cree Indians, 325. 

 Crowe, Mr., his copper mines at Alten, 128. 

 Crozier, Captain, his last voyage, 356. 



, the last heard of him, 364. 



- — — , his Antarctic voyages, 402. 

 Cruciferae, the, of the treeless zone, 20. 

 Crustaceans, immense numbers of, on the coast of 



Greenland, 59. 

 Cumberland Strait, Davis's discovery of, 337, 338. 

 Currents, magnificent system of, and their effects 



on the accumulation of ice, 56, 57. 



D. 



Dances of the Tchuktchi, 266. 



Darwin, ]\Ir., his ascent of Mount Tarn, 411. 



Davis, John, his voyages to discover an Arctic pas- 

 sage to India, 337. 



, his visit to Labrador, 338. 



, his subsequent life, 338. 



Davis's Straits, probable influence of the northerly 

 winds on the depression of the temperature of, 

 27. 



■ , Sebastian Cabot's discovery of, 335. 



Dead, reverence paid to the, by the Samoiedes, 181. 

 Dease, Peter Warren, his land Arctic expedition, 

 355, 



Death, black, its ravages in Iceland, 95. 

 Deception Island, account of, 393. 

 Deer, red {Cervus elephas), its habitat and uses to 

 man, 40, 



Deer of Vogelsang and Treurenberg Bay, 137. 

 Deluge, Cree legend of the, 325. 

 Demidoff^, foundation of the family of, 219. 



, their enormous wealth, 219. 



Deschnew, Semen, his tlie first and last voyage 



through Bering's Strait, 197. 

 Desolation, South, 412. 



Detti-foss, an Icelandic cascade, Mr. Gould's de- 

 scription of the, 78. 

 Disco bay, icebergs formed in, 49. 



Divers, their migrations to and from the north, 42. 

 Dog-rib Indians, hunting-grounds of the, 327. 



, their character, dress, and customs, 327, 329. 



, their want of hospitality, 329. 



, their honesty, 329. 



, their notions of a future life, 329. 



Dog, the reindeer of the Lapps, 161. 



, Wrangell's dog-sledges on the Polar sea, 



239. 



, Icelandic, 80. 



, the, of the people of Kolymsk, 236. 



, the Kamchatkan, and dog-sledges, 258p 259c 



, their mode of foretelling storms, 259. 



, mode of training sledge-dogs, 259, 



, trained by Esquimaux to attack the bear, 



297. 



, description of the, and dog-sledges of the Es- 



imaux, 299. 



qu. Dr. Kane's Newfoundland and Esquimaux, 



367. 



, epidemic amongst the Esquimaux, 372. 



Dolgorouk}^, Prince, his exile to Siberia, 205. 

 Dolphin, white, or beluga, of Nova Zembla, 155. 



, Greenland fishery of the, 387. 



Dolphins of the Polar seas, 61, 398. 



, the beluga, or white dolphin, 61. 



, the black dolphin, " ca'ing " whale, or grind, 



61, 



, the ore, or grampus, 62. 



of Spitzbergen, 137, 



Drake, Sir Francis, his voyage through the Strait 



of Magellan, 414. 

 Drifanda Foss, an Icelandic cascade, 114. 

 Drouth eim, the red deer near, 40. 



, description of, 124, 



Ducks, wild, of the Arctic regions, 19, 



, their migrations to and from the north, 42. 



of Iceland, 81, 84, 



Dndinka, Castren's visit to, 176. 



Dungeness, Point, 409, 



Durfoorth, his voyage and death, 336. 



D'Urville, Dumont, his discoveries in the Antarctic 



ocean, 402, 



Dutch, their expeditions to discover an Arctic pas- 

 sage to India, 339, 



E. 



Eagle, the sea- (flalicetus albicilla), of the north, 

 44. 



, his food, 44, 



, white-tailed, of Iceland, 85. 



, value of the skins of the, 85, 



, the, on the coast of Norway, 125. 



, in the Tundra in summer, 19, 



Ebierbing, 441, 466, 773, 774, 758-761, 



Egede, Hans, his voyage to Greenland, 384. 



Egg-vare of the coast of Norway, 124, 



Egilson, Olaf, the Westman clergyman, his slavery 



in Algiers, 118. 

 Eider-duck, its migrations to and from the north, 



43. 



of Iceland, 81, 



, breeding of, 83. 



, Mr, Shepherd's visit to one of its head-quar« 



ters, 83. 



Elder, the, in the Arctic regions, 24. 



Elephant, sea-, of the Antarctic ocean, 399. 



Elk, or moose deer, of the forests of the north, 38i 



, Caesar's account of it, 39. 



, its food and present habitat, 40. 



