Balboa (Vasco Nunez de) discovers the Pacific Ocean, [2]
Barents or Barentszoon (William), the track of his third voyage incorrectly laid down by Dr. Beke, [xvii];
extract from his log preserved in Gerard’s “Histoire du Pays nommé Spitzbergen”, [xvii], et seq.;
the log not written by Barents according to Dr. Beke, [xxii];
refutation of that opinion, [xxii], et seq.;
direction of his true track, [xxv], [xxvi];
the question treated of by Mr. P. A. Tiele, [xxv];
the track in the chart of J. Hondius’ “Tabula Geographica”, a drawing after Barents himself, [xxvi];
his winter house discovered in 1871, [ii], [xlvi];
relics found there, [xlvi], [xlvii], [l];
description of them in detail, [lii]–[lxii];
their discovery made known in Holland in February 1872, [li];
they become the possession of Mr. Lister Kay, ib.;
by him transferred to the Netherlands Government, ib.;
finally deposited in the Naval Department at the Hague, [lii];
his journal found in 1875, [v], [lxii];
a Dutch translation of that of Pet and Jackman, ib.;
commander of the Mercury of Amsterdam on the first voyage, [civ], [6];
his biography, [cv];
wrote the account of the first voyage, [cvi];
his character, ib.;
various ways of spelling his [[276]]name, ib.;
sailed from Texel, [cvii], [6];
separates from Nai and Tetgales, ib.;
account of his voyage, [cviii]; difficulties and return, [cix];
accuracy of his observations, [cx], [cxl];
his great discoveries, [xcix];
meets again with the other vessels, [cx], [36];
returns to Holland, [cx], [39];
difference between his report and that of Linschoten, [cx];
had gone further than Nai and Tetgales, [cxi];
on the second voyage is pilot-major of the fleet, aboard the Greyhound, [cxiii];
goes on shore, [cxvi], [57];
his dispute with the admiral, [cxvi], [60];
resolves on proceeding, [cxvii];
proposes to winter there, [cxviii];
observes the tides in the Kara Sea, [cxix];
his note thereon, [273];
again attempts to proceed, [cxix];
signs protest with the other commanders, ib.;
his scruples, [cxxi];
arrives in the Maas, [cxxii];
on the third voyage accompanies Heemskerck as chief pilot, [cxxvii];
reasons why he did not command, ib.;
his relation to Heemskerck and the crew, [cxxviii];
differs with J. C. Rijp as to their course, [xxviii], [xxix], [cxxix], [72], [75];
further disputes and separation, [cxxxi], [85];
journal of third voyage wrongly attributed to him, [cxxxii];
reaches Novaya Zemlya, [cxxxiii];
speaks with Heemskerck about returning home in the boats, [cxliii], [177];
writes a letter to be left at Novaya Zemlya, [189];
his last words, [195], [198];
dies, [198];
his belief in the practicability of a north-east passage to China, [clix], [6]
Barents’s Land, the north-eastern portion of Novaya Zemlya proposed to be so called, [cxl]
Barents’s Sea, the sea between Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya proposed to be so named, [cxli]
Barnacles, see Brent-geese
Barrow (Sir John), his observations on Olivier Brunel and on Kostin Shar, [ci];
references to his “Chronological History”, [lxxx], [5], [32], [33], [79], [149]
Bassendine (James), his commission from the Russia Company, [lxxi]
Bast, boat sewed together with, [55]
Baxo (Cape), [12]