Index 
529 
Lady Franklin, 251 
Lady Franklin Bay, 317 
Lambert Land, 371, 373 
Lamont, Mr, 287 
Lamprenen v. Lamprey 
Lamprey, 150, 151 
Lamps, cooking, 342, 461 
Lancaster, Sir James, 106, 108, 113, 
135. 142 
Lancaster Sound, 144, 207, 234, 241, 
2 53> 3 11 , 3!2 
"Land of Busse/' 91 
"Land of Desolation," 95 
Landnamabok, 37 
Lane, Henry, 104 
Lapps, 13; in Greenland, 332, 335 
Laptef, Cheriton, 177 
La Roche, Anthony, 393 
Larsen, Capt., 431, 432, 440 
Lashly, 471 et seq., 490, 495, 498, 
499, 5°3 
Laub, Lieut., 376 et seq, 
Ledyard, John, 171 
Leif Erik, Flatey book account of 
voyage to Vinland (Newfound- 
land), 43; marries Thorgunna, 42; 
reaches Vinland, 42 
Leigh-Smith, Benjamin, 287, 288; 
visits Franz Josef Land, 290; 
revisits it, 291; winters in it, 291, 
294 
Le Maire, Jacob, 390 
Lena, 323 
Lena River, 316, 324, 329; dis- 
covered, 175; descended, 177 
Levick, Dr, 490, 493 
Liakhov Islands (New Siberian 
Islands), 1 77, 179, 328, 329, 34L3 8 4 
Lichtenfels, 163 
Lievely, 217, 347 
Lightning, 437 
Lillie, Mr, 491, 494 
Lindenow, Goolske, 113 
Linschoten, J. H. van, 70 et seq.; 
dies, 72 ; his narrative, 72 
Lion, 91 
— Pickersgill's, 171 
Lively, 403 et seq. 
Loads for sledges, 23, 176, 265, 472, 
479 
Loaysa, Garcia Jofre de, 389 
Lock, Michael, 82 et seq. 
Lock's Island, 88 
Lockwood, Lieut. James, 317 et seq.; 
death of, 320 
Lodias, 63 
Log, use of the, 152 
Logarithms, introduced by Briggs, 
I5r 
London, 147 
London Coast, 99 
Londonderry, founded by Cockayne, 
108 
Longhurst, Cyril, 450, 453, 467 
Longstaff, Mr, 466; supports The 
Societies' Expedition, 445 
Lowther Island, 259 
Lumley, Lord, 152 
Lutke Land, 186 
Lyall, Dr, 412 
Lyon, Capt. G. F., 2T2 et seq.; 
voyage of, 215; death of, 216 
Lyons, Israel, 173 
Lyttelton, New Zealand, 455, 469, 
470, 477, 478, 491 
M ' Clintock, Admiral Sir Leopold, 
249 et seq., 264 et seq., 303, 427, 
446, 453; his sledges, 256; his 
sledge crew, 259 ; his sledge 
journey, 356 ; commissions the 
Fox, 273; knighted, 278; death of, 
278 
M'Clure, Capt., 248; winters in 
Prince of Wales Strait, 264; his 
record found by Mecham, 265 
McCormick, Dr R., 412, 425 
Mackenzie, Alexander, explores 
Mackenzie River, 169 
Mackenzie River, 169, 226; explora- 
tion of, 169, 384 
Maelear, Lieut., 428 
M'Murdo, Archibald, 411, 420 
M'Murdo Bay, 416 
— Sound, 456, 457, 492, 493 
Macquane Island, 455, 486 
Magallanica, 391 
Magellan, 389 
Magnetic force, irregular, 455 
— observations, 99, 115; Antarctic, 
475. 476 
- — ■ Pole, Sir James Ross discovers, 
236; South, 417, 475, 480, 481; 
position of, 415 
— storms, 417 
Magpie, 405 
Mahu, Jacob, 390 
Maigaard, Lieut., 333 
Maldonado on Strait of Anian, 82 
Mammoth ivory, 179, 180, 184 
Maps, Baffin's discoveries, 144 ; 
Barentsz's discoveries, by Hon- 
dius, 77; Claudius Clavus's, 54; 
Davis's voyages, 97; Egede's, of 
Greenland, 161; Foxe's, 155; 
Frobisher's discoveries, 87; Gra- 
ham Land, 399; Greenland, 377; 
Hudson Bay, 167; Hudson Strait, 
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