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Index 
Vessels employed in Polar discovery : 
Porcupine, 427 
Porpoise, 222 
Pourquoi Pas, 442 
Prince Albert, 252 et seq. f 262 
Prince of Wales, 241 
Prosperous, 156 
Proteus, 317 et seq.; founders, 319 
Racehorse, 172 et seq. 
Rainbow, 12.J, 230 
Ravenscraig, 301 
Reliance, 227 
Rescue, 252, 255 
Resolute, 251, 253 etseq., 264 set/. 
Resolution (Button's), 136 
— (Cook's), 169 et seq., 394 eif 
— (Scoresby's), 192, 194, 195 
Richard and Barnard, 124 
Rodgers, 329 
Roosevelt, 355, 356 
Royal George, 102 
Sabrina, 405, 406 
S£ Lesmes, 389 
S£ Paul, 177 
S£ Peter, 177, 178 
Salomon, 86, 88 
Scotia, 439 
Searchthrift, '63 
Sofia, 366 
Sophia, 251, 296, 332 
Southern Cross, 433 
Speedwell (Scoresby's), 191 
— (Wood's), 156; wrecked, 157 
Sunshine, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100 
Superb, 240 
Swan, 69, 72 
Sweepstakes, 156 
Tegethoff, 289, 297 
Terra Nova, 476, 483, 489 s^. ; 
surveys N.Z. waters, 493, 494 
Terror (under Ross), 410 
418 5^.; collision of, 419 
— (under Franklin), 230, 231, 
238 et seq., 240 ^ seq., 246 £i! 
seg. ; founders, 247 
Thames, 326 
Thomas, 86 
Thomas Allin, 86 
Thomasine, 126, 127 
T^r, 124 
Trade's Increase, 105 
Trent, 198 se#. 
— (Franklin's), 222, 223 
Trost, 112 
Tw/a, 403 #2 s^. 
United States, 299 
Valdivia, 429 
Farrows, 304 
P^T a > 322 e2 s^., 324 
Vessels employed in Polar discovery : 
Victory, 233 et seq. 
W ark worth, 326 
Willem Barentsz, 359 et seq. 
William, 65; founders, 66 
Williams of Blythe, 398 
Windward, 292 
Ymer, 322 
Zelee, 407 
Victoria Island, 227, 230 
— -Land, 456, 469, 481; surveyed, 
3i5 
— Range 458, 505, 507 
Victory, 233 et seq. 
Vigdis, tomb of, 52 
Viking ships, 35 
Vikings, 35, 36; reach Iceland, 36 
Vince, T., death of, 459; monument 
to, 476 
Vinland, 42, 45 
Vocabulary, Eskimo, compiled by 
Davis, 97 
Vogel Hoek, 118 
Volcanic action, in Arctic, 4; in 
Antarctic, 400, 415, 416, 432, 465 
von Toll, Baron, 341 
Voyage of the ''Discovery," 
Voyages, of Thylde, 58; of Wil- 
loughby, 59 
Waigatz Island, 15, 64; birds of, 64; 
flora of, 64 
Wakeman, Cvrus, 212 
Walrus, 122, 144, 170, 173, 296, 343, 
349; attacks Trent's boats, 199 
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 94, 96, 98 
Warkworth, 326 
" Water sky," 8 
Weapons, 24 
Weddell, Capt. James, 404, 440; his 
Antarctic expedition, 401, 402 
Weddell Quadrant, 442, 507 
Weddell's Seal, 483 
Wellman, 293 
West Bygd, settlement formed, 47 
Wetheringsett, Hakluyt rectorof,i 10 
Weyprecht, Lieut., 288, 289, 316 
Whale, breaking up of, 192 et seq.; 
captured by Ross, 217; jaw-bones 
of, 193; killed by ship, 88; fishery, 
128, 150, 188 et seq.; initiation 
of, 123 ; in Baffin's Bay, 204 ; boats, 
190; lines, 190, 192 
— fishing, 125 
Whale Fish Islands, 241 
Whale Sound, 145, 338 
Whalebone, 193 
Whalers, 189, 283, 284, 431; Scotch, 
in Antarctic, 431 ; disaster to, 302 
