Index 
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Bellerophon, 223 
Bellingshausen, Capt., his Antarctic 
expedition, 396, 397 
Bellot, Lieut., 262; death of, 268 
— Strait, 262 
Bennet, Stephen, visits Bear Island, 
73 
Bennett, Gordon, 327 
— Island, 179, 180, 329 
Bering, Vitus, his voyages, 177; 
death of, 178 
— Island, 324 
— Strait, 170 
Bernacchi, Louis C, 433, 449, 475 
Bernier, Capt., 362 
Berry, Lieut., 329 
Best, George, writes narrative of 
Frobisher's second expedition, 90 
Bethell, Lieut., 428 
Beynen, Koolemans, 311, 358; death 
of, 3 60 
Bird, Capt., 213, 216, 218, 411, 420, 
424; death of, 251 
Birds, 314; Antarctic, 423, 437, 455; 
of American Arctic coast, 18; of 
Baffin's Bay, 99; of Cape Digges, 
141; of Cape York, 24; of Davis 
Strait, 97; of Franz Josef Land, 
296; of Fury Beach, 236; of 
Novaya Zemlya, 185; of Spits- 
bergen, 121 ; of Waigatz Island, 64 
Biscoe, Capt. John, his Antarctic 
expedition, 403 et seq. 
Bishop Arnold, 48 
— Eric, 48 
— Olaf, 49 
Bishops of Greenland, 47 et seq., 51 
Bjaaland, 484 
Bjorling, 325 
Black Dog, 1 01 
Blake, Admiral, 398 
Blessing, Dr, 341 
Blijde Boodschap, 390 
Blink Ice, 163 
Blossom, 2 1 6, 226, 227, 234 
Blubber, 193 
Boats of Chukchis, 17; of Eskimos, 
20, 115 
— used on Franklin's land expe- 
dition, 222 ; used by Back on 
Great Fish River, 228; used by 
Dease on the Mackenzie, 229; of 
Franklin's retreat, 245 
Bona Confidentia, 60 
— Esperanza, 60 
Book of the Knowledge of all the 
Kingdoms, 389 
Booth, Sir Felix, 233, 237, 251 
Boothia Felix, 234 
Borchgrevink, Carstens, his Ant- 
arctic expedition, 433 
Bourne's Inventions or Devices, 152 
Bouvet, Capt. L., 393 
— Island, 393 
Bowers, Lieut., 490, 492, 495 et seq., 
500, 502 ; death of, 503 
Bransfield, Mr, 398, 400 
Brattahlid, 41, 44 
Breadalbane, 268 
Briefe and True Relation, Purchas's, 
145 
Briggs, Henry, 151 
"Briggs-his-Mathematics/' 154 
Briseis, 201 
Britain, discovery of, by Pytheas, 27 
British expeditions to Spitsbergen, 
287 
Brocklehurst, Sir Philip, 478, 480 
Bromley, Lieut., 428 
Bronlund, 370; death of, 373, 374; 
diary of, 373 
Brooke Place, 105 
Brooke's sounding apparatus, 426 
Bruce, Mr, his Antarctic expedition, 
439, 44° 
— Commander Wilfrid, 489, 491, 
494 * 
— Miss Kathleen, 489 
Brunei, Oliver, 130; reaches the Obi, 
68 
Buchan, 198; death of, 200 
Buchanan, J. Y., 428 
Bulldog, 427 
Burney, Capt. James, 169, 394 
Burrough, Stephen, 63, 83; dies, 65 
— William, 63; commands fleet, 65; 
his Discourse of the Compass and 
Magnetic Needle, 65, 100; dies, 65 
Burrough's Strait, 64, 184 
Bushman, J. f 201, 212 
— Cove, 260 
— Island, Meteoric boulders at, 24 
Button, Sir Thomas, 136; reaches 
Hudson's Bay, 136; winters, 136, 
137; dies, 137 
Bygd, East, v. East Bygd; West, v. 
West Bygd 
Bylot, Robert, 131, 134, 138, 142 
Byron, Commodore, 394 
Cagni, Capt., 293; attempts to reach 
Pole, 352 
"Calving" of icebergs, 10 
California, 166 
Campbell, Lieut., 490, 492 ; his party 
winters in ice cave, 49 
Canada, Arctic lands transferred to, 
362 
