Index 
533 
Parry's, land journey, 209 ; Parry's, 
Spitsbergen boat voyage, 219; 
Rae's, 231; Scott's first ex- 
pedition, 450, 461 ; Shackleton's, 
479; Sverdrup's, 348; for sledge 
journeys, M'Clintock's party, 256, 
257, 259; Ross's, 249; Scott's, 462, 
494 
Pullen, Mr, 306 
Purchas, Samuel, 111 
Piirchas hys Pilgrimes, in 
Purchas's Briefe and True Relation, 
Pyrites found by Frobisher, 85, 90 
Pytheas, voyage of, 26, 27 
Quadrant, Davis's, 102; Hadley's, 
102; Weddell's, 442; Ross's, 507 
Quadrants, Arctic, 4, 6, 13, 57 
Queen Adelaide Island, 404 
Quervain, Dr de, 381 
Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de, 392 
Racehorse, 172 ei seq. 
Rae, Dr John, winters in Repulse 
Bay, 231; reports news of Frank- 
lin's expedition, 272 
Rainbow, 227, 230 
Raised terraces, 186 
Raleigh, Sir Walter, supports Davis's 
projects, 94; drafts instructions 
for Arctic voyage, 135 
Ranunculus glacialis, 96 
Rasmussen, Knud, 379 ei seq. 
Rate of sledge travel, 23, 356; 
Aldrich's, 308; Amundsen's, 484, 
485; Hamilton's, 265; M'Clin- 
tock's, 260, 266, 269; Mecham's, 
265; Payer's, 283; Peary's, 338; 
Rasmussen's, 380; Scott's first 
expedition, 464, 472, 475 
Ravens, 332 
Ravenscraig, 301 
Rawson, Lieut., 304, 306, 307; death 
of, 307 
Record, Peary's, found, 380 
Records of Alert and Discovery, 312, 
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Regiment of Medina, 57 
Reindeer, 14, 267; introduced into 
Spitsbergen, 287 
Reliance, 227 
Relics, of the Onkilon, 21 ; of Erich- 
sens' party, 378 ; of Franklin 
found, 272, 275, 276, 314; of 
Parry's expedition, 260 
Rennick, Lieut., 490, 493, 494 
Repulse Bay, 166, 213, 230, 231 
Rescue, 252, 255 
Resolute, 251, 253 ei seq., 264 ei seq. 
Resolution, Button's, 136 
— Cook's, 169 et seq., 394 ei seq. 
— Scoresby's, 192, 194, 195 
Revenge, the, action described by 
Linschoten, 71 
Rhodostethia rosea, 343 
Rhytina Stelleri, 179 
Richard and Barnard, 124 
Richardson, Dr, 223 et seq., 226; 
shoots Michel, 225 
Rijp, Jan Cornelis, 72, 73, 78 
Ringnes, Herrn, 347 
Ringnes Islands, 348, 349, 355 1 
Rink, Dr, 332 
Rivers of Siberia, 15 
Robertson, Dr, 412 
Robertson Bay, 433, 456, 493 
Rodger s, 329 
Roe, Sir Thomas, 152 
Roosevelt, 355, 356 
Ross, Sir James, 2or, 212, 216, 218, 
233 et seq., 410; character of, 424; 
his first Antarctic voyage, 410; 
second Antarctic voyage, 418; 
third Antarctic voyage, 422 et 
seq.\ bibliography of third Ant- 
arctic voyage, 425 ; discovers 
magnetic pole, 236; winters at 
Fury Beach, 236; goes in search 
of Franklin, 248; death of, 251 
— Sir John, 201, 233, 349; dis- 
covers Arctic Highlanders, 24, 
203; his first voyage, 202; knight- 
ed, 237 
Ross Island, 494; Quadrant, 507; 
Sea, 12 
Ross's Barrier, v. Barrier, Great 
Ross's Gull, 296, 343 
Rossbank Observatory, 414 
Royal George, 102 
Royds, Lieut. Charles, 448, 452, 475 
Ruins of Greenland churches, 52; of 
Kakortak, 47, 52, 160; in Kin- 
goadal, 48 
RunicinscriptionsinGreenland,49,52 
Rupert, Prince, founds Hudson's 
Bay Company, 165 
Russia, Dutch open trade with, 68 
Russian Ambassador, first, visits 
England, 62 
— expeditions, Antarctic, 396 J 
Arctic, 175 ; Spitsbergen, 187, 285 
Russians with Scott, 489, 490, 495 
Ryder, Lieut. C, 367 
Sabine, Colonel, 201 ; sails with 
Parry, 206; visits Greenland, 280; 
on terrestrial magnetism, 410 
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