Browne (Oliver), see Brunel [[277]]
Browne (Richard), his commission from the Russia Company, [lxxi]
Brownell, Oliver Brunel so called by Hudson, [xcviii]
Brunel (Oliver), reaches the Obi by land, [vi];
sent by the Dutch to Kholmogory, [vii];
the founder of their White Sea trade, ib.;
their first arctic navigator, ib.;
his identity with Alferius maintained, [viii], [ix];
his history by Mr. S. Muller, [ix], et seq.;
birth and early career, [ix];
goes to Kholmogory, [ix];
imprisoned by the Russian Government but subsequently released, [x];
acts as agent to Russian merchants in expeditions to the East, ib.;
is taken by a Russian guide to Kostin Shar, ib.;
opens up Russian trade with the Dutch, and establishes the commerce of the Netherlands with the White Sea, [xi];
sent to Holland to commission men for a Russian expedition to the North-East, [xiii];
his interview with J. Balak, ib.;
who gives him a letter to G. Mercator, [xiii], [xcii];
abandons his Russian connection and undertakes a voyage to the North-East in 1584, [xiv];
unable to pass Pet Strait, ib.;
result of the voyage, ib.;
enters the Danish service, [xv];
makes three fruitless attempts to discover the lost Greenland colonies, [xv];
uncertainty as to his subsequent career, [xv],
and death, [xvi];
Knight’s journal, quoted by Purchas, partly written by him, [xv];
reasons for supposing he entered the English service, [xv];
his voyage to Novaya Zemlya and discovery of Kostin Shar, [xcv];
supposed to be the same as Alferius, ib.;
his voyage one of the causes of the Dutch expeditions, [xcviii], [cii];
land-locked near Mezhdusharsky Ostrov and rescued by a Russian, [xcvi];
shipwrecked and lost at the mouth of the Pechora, [xcvii], [xcix];
not an Englishman, but a native of Brussels, [xcviii]
Bry (de), his translation of Gerard’s tract on Spitzbergen, [cxxxi]
Buchelius, papers of, in the Archives of Utrecht, [xiv]
Bunel (Oliver), see Brunel
Burrough (Stephen), his voyage in the Searchthrift, [lxviii];
and return, [lxx];
discovers Burrough’s Strait, [lxxi]
Burrough’s Strait, the Karskoi Vorota or Kara Strait so called, [xxxviii], [xlii]–[xliv], [lxxi], [lxxxvii]