Expedition (Third) in 1596; the States General refuse to fit it out at the public expense, [cxxvii];
undertaken by the city of Amsterdam alone, cxxvii. 70;
names of the commanders, [71];
Barents subordinate to Heemskerck, ib.;
but virtually the leader, [cxxviii];
sails from Amsterdam to the Vlie, [71];
departs from thence, ib.;
difference of opinion between Rijp and Barents as to their course, [cxxix], [72];
they see the first ice, [73];
discover Bear Island, [cxxix], [74], [76];
further disputes, [75];
in great danger on land in the snow, ib.;
combat with a bear, [76];
reach Spitzbergen, [cxxx], [78];
circumnavigate it, [cxxx];
see many geese, [79];
return to Bear Island, [cxxxi], [85];
Rijp and Barents separate, ib.;
Rijp returns to Spitzbergen, ib.;
and eventually to Holland, [cxxxiii];
Barents proceeds towards Novaya Zemlya, ib., [85];
sees land, [89];
passes Admiralty Island, [90];
in great danger from the ice, [93];
arrives at the Islands of Orange, [95];
ten men land on Novaya Zemlya, and think they have attained the object of their voyage, [96];
arrive at Cape Desire, [97];
enter Ice Haven, [cxxxiv], [97];
surrounded by the ice, [98];
attempt in vain to return, [99];
three men nearly lost, ib.;
the ship being beset by the ice, they resolve to pass the winter there, ib.;
the ship in great danger, [100];
they bring their stores on land, [102], [103], [113], [116];
decide on building a house, [105];
find great quantities of drift-wood, ib.;
the carpenter dies, [108];
great sufferings from cold, [109], [114], [127], [131], [135];
sleep the first time in the house, [114];
beer frozen, [114], [116], [122];
lose sight of the sun, [121];
set traps for foxes, [123], [126];
take some foxes, [125], [130], [133], [136];
the clock frozen, [128];
wine frozen, [129];
are nearly smothered from making [[280]]a coal fire, [130];
hard frost, [137];
keep Twelfth night, [158];
short allowance, [142], [174];
the sun reappears, [144];
observations thereon, [145];
the house covered up with snow, [cxlii], [135], [138], [151], [153];
a man dies, [150];
they suffer from scurvy, [cxliv], [152];
keep Shrove Tuesday, [156];
see the Siberian coast, [162];
great trouble in fetching wood, [163];
their exemplary conduct, [cxlii];
resignation, [cxliii];
think of getting away in the boats, [176], [178];
begin to take down the house for firewood, [177];
prepare the boats for going away, [178], [185];
ship their provisions, [186];
Barents writes a letter to be left behind, [189];
Heemskerck writes a letter of protest in duplicate, of which one copy is put into each boat, [190];
it is signed by most of the crew, [193];
they leave Novaya Zemlya in two boats, [194];
pass the Ice Cape, [195];
in extreme danger from the ice, [196];
William Barents and Claes Andriesz die, [198];
draw the boats over the ice, [199];
reach Cape Comfort, ib.;
their course along the coasts of Novaya Zemlya and Russia as far as Kola, 200–203;
pass Cape Nassau, [204];
the boats separate, but again meet, [205];
nearly wrecked, [208];
Jan Fransz dies, [211];
meets with some Russians, [223], [229], [233], [237], [240], [243], [246];
suffer from scurvy, [224], [226];
cross from Novaya Zemlya to the coast of Russia, [228];
reach it, [229];
the two boats are separated, [236];
cross the White Sea, [241];
meet with Laplanders, [243];
their miserable manner of living, ib.;
the boats meet again, [244];
arrive at Kildin, [247];
send a man to Kola in quest of ships, [248];
receive tidings of I. C. Rijp, [251];
meet him again, [252];
arrive at Kola, ib.;
leave their boats at Kola, [255];
depart for Holland, ib.;
arrive at Amsterdam, [256];
relate their adventures, [257];
names of the survivors, ib.
Expeditions (subsequent):—
1608. The Dutch East India Company, under the command of Hudson, [xxxii];
its result, ib.
1609. Isaac le Maire, under the command of Melchior van Kerckoven, [xxxii];
its result, [xxxiii]
1611. The Admiralty of Amsterdam, under the command of Jan Cornelisz May, [xxxiv];
consists of two ships, their names, ib.;
sails towards Novaya Zemlya, ib.;
obliged to return to Kildin, ib.;
sails to North America and winters there, ib.;
one of the ships returns to Holland, [xxxv];
May again perseveres, [xxxv];
his attempt to sail straight to the Pole a complete failure, ib.;
returns to Holland, [xxxv]
1624. C. F. Bosman in the ship De Cat, [xxxvi];
the design of the expedition, ib.;
passes through Pets Straight, but driven back thither, ib.;
returns to Holland, [xxxvii]
1664. William de Vlaming rounds the N.E. point of Novaya Zemlya, [xl]
1676. English expedition under the command of Wood, [xxxvii];
only explore the edge of the ice between Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya, ib.
1760. Russian expedition under the command of the Russian Navigator Sawwä Löschkin, [xxxviii];
sails along the east coast of Novaya Zemlya, and twice winters there, ib.;
reaches its N.E. point, ib.
Captain Carlsen’s first expedition; sails in a small fishing-boat through Pet Strait, and reaches White Island, [xli];
pecuniary result of the voyage, ib.
Captain Palliser, English walrus hunter, sails to the north of Novaya Zemlya, [xli]
1869. Captain E. W. Johannesen in the Nordland, [xlii];
in his second voyage circumnavigates Novaya Zemlya, [xliii]
F. Torkildsen commands the schooner Alpha, [xliii];
enters Kara Bay, where he loses his ship, ib.
Capt. Ulve in the schooner Samson, [xliii]
Capt. Mack in the schooner Polarstern, [xliv]
Capt. P. Quale in his yacht, the Johan Mary, [xliv]
1871. Capt. Elling Carlsen in the Solid, [xlv], et seq.;
extract from his log, [xlvi], et seq.;
discovery of Barents’s winter house, [xlvi];
relics found there, [xlvi], [xlvii], [l], [lii]–[lxii]
1875. Gundersen, M., in the schooner Regina, [lxii];
visits Ice Harbour and discovers further relics of Barents, ib.
1875. English Arctic expedition in the Alert and Discovery, [i]
Eychelenberg (Gilles van), owner of the first Dutch ship sent to the Pudoshemsco mouth of the Dwina, [xi] [[281]]
Fabin (Cape), [xxxvi]
Fair Isle, or Feyeril, [xvii], [71]
Faire Foreland, [xxviii]
Fayril, see Fair Island
Fields of Ice, [18]
Fiele (P. A). Reference to his work, “Mémoire Bibliographique sur les Journaux des Navigateurs Nérlandais”, [lxii]
Fifth Point, [31]