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Index 
Divers Voyages (Hakluyt), no 
Dobbs, 1 66 
Dogs, 17, 337, 338, 354, 355; in 
Antarctic, 462, 472, 482, 483; 
Greenland, 23 
Dorothea, 198 et seq. 
Draba alpina, 295 
Drake, 101 
Drake, Sir Thomas, 389; his astro- 
labe, 57 
— R. N., Mr, 489 
Dress of Arctic Highlanders, 24; of 
Eskimos, 19 
Drift, Antarctic, 435 
— westerly polar, 5, 297, 310, 340, 
342, 343; Jeannette's, 328 
Driftwood, 23 
Dronning Luisa Land, 373, 378, 381 
Drygalski, Erik von, his Antarctic 
expedition, 440 
— Glacier, 481 
Duse, Lieut., 436 
Dutch, the, open trade with Russia, 
68; renew voyages to the North, 
72, 73; first visit to Spitsbergen 
by, 124; despatch second fleet to 
Spitsbergen, 126 
Dutch Arctic explorations, 358 et seq. 
Dysentery attacks Shackleton's 
party, 480 
Earl Camden, 222 
East Bygd, 51, 159, 160; settlement 
of, 40; Augustinian monastery at, 
47; churches at, 47; fate of, 51 
East India Company, founded, 105; 
undertake North- West Passage, 
129; Baffin enters service of, 146 
Easter Island, visited by Cook, 396 
Edward VI encourages Frobisher, 
81; patronises Arctic exploration, 
59, 60 
Edward Bonaventure, 60 
Eendracht, 390 
Eenhiorningen, 150 
Egedc, Hans, 158 et seq.; discovers 
Kakortak ruins, 47; history of his 
mission, 160 et seq.; on Eskimo 
words, 160; his family, 162; dies, 
163; his books, 163 
— Paul, 161 et seq. 
Egedesminde, 163 
Egerton, Admiral Sir George, 304, 
306 et seq., 446, 448 
Eira, 290; founders, 291 
Eira Harbour, 294 
Eis blink, 163 
Eliza Scott, 405, 406 
Elizabeth, 98, 99, 100 
Elizabeth, Queen, encourages Arctic 
discovery, 79 ; supports Frobisher, 
82, 85 ; decorates Frobisher, 86 
Elizabethan Arctic discoveries, 157 
Ellen, 98, 99, 100 
Ellesmere Island, 265, 298, 299, 308, 
325> 347 & seq., 354, 362; coal in, 
35o 
Emanuel, 86 
— (busse), 86, 91 
Emperor penguins, 472, 476, 496, 
497 
Empetmm nigrum, 116 
Enderby, Charles, 403 et seq. 
■ — Land, 404 
— Quadrant, 505 
England, Lieut., R.N. 478 
Engroneland, 118 
Enterprise, 248, 250 et seq., 263 
Epitaph, Franklin's, 243 
Equipment, sledging, Hearne's, 168; 
Nansen's, 334; Ross's, 256; Scott's 
450, 460; Sverdrup's, 348; Wran- 
gell's, 182 
Erebus (under Ross), 410 et seq., 418 
et seq.; collision of, 419 
■ — (under Franklin), 237 et seq., 
240 et seq., 246 et seq., 251; sinks, 
247 
Erebus and Terror Bay, 422 
Erichsen, Mylius, 369 et seq.; death 
of, 374, 375 
Erik, Bishop, 48 
— the Red, 39; Saga of, 38; voyage 
of, 41 
Eriksfjord, 113 
Esk, 195 
Eskimos, 17, r8, 84, 112, 113, 115, 
142, 143, 229, 234; boats of, 20, 
115; dress of, 19; East Greenland, 
365, 366; harpoons of, 23; iglus, 
234 ; physical characteristics of, 
19, 20, 22; priests of, 23; snow- 
huts of, 20; their folk-lore, 366; 
vocabulary of, compiled by Davis, 
97; vocabulary of, Egede's, r6o; 
at Igloolik, 214; of Boothia, 235; 
in Greenland, 22, 335; massacred 
by Indians, 168; met by Amund- 
sen, 314, 315; met by Baffin, 140; 
met by Davis, 95, 96, 97; met by 
Egede, 159; met by Hudson's 
mutineers, 134; met by M'Clin- 
tock, 275; met by Sabine, 280 et 
seq.; visit Parry's vessels, 214 
Evans, Commander, 489, 490, 492, 
498, 499 
— Edgar, 471 et seq., 490, 495, 49$, 
500 et seq. ; death of, 502 
