Mealhaven, a part of Novaya Zemlya, why so named, [33]
Medina (Pieter de) his work, “The Navigation, or the Art of Sailing,” etc., 1580, one of those found in Barents’s winter house, [lx];
its bearing on the date of the Dutch Expedition, [lxi]
Mendoza Juan Gonzales de, see Gonzales
Mercator (G.), co-operator with Moucherson in originating the first Dutch Arctic expedition, [ix];
his letter to Hakluyt, [lxxxii];
letter to him from John Balak, [xcii], [261]
Mercury (the), of Amsterdam, one of the vessels of the first expedition, [cv];
commanded by W. Barents, ib.;
notes upon its name, ib.;
Forster’s mistake, ib.;
probably on the second expedition, [cxiii]
Mercury (the), of Enkhuysen, one of the vessels of the first expedition, [civ];
in the second expedition, [cxii], [36]
Mermare, or Marmoria (Sea), [55]
Meyer (Cornelis de) an Antwerp merchant, [vi];
sails from Kola to the White Sea, in 1566, and travels overland to Moscow, [vii]
Mezhdusharsky Ostrov (or Island), [xlii];
its position, [xcvi];
Oliver Brunel land-locked there, ib.
Middleburg, see Zeeland