North Kyen, [49]
North-east passage to Cathay and China, belief in its practicability, [clviii], [5], [41]
Northern Ocean, attempted voyage through it to Cathay and China by the English, [lxiv];
by the Dutch, [ciii];
surveyed by Lütke, [cxxxiv]
Norwegians, their recent inroads into the Kara Sea, [xli]
Nova Kholmogory, see Archangel
Novaya Zemlya, circumnavigated, [ii], [xliii];
its N.E. coast seldom visited by the Russians, [xxxviii];
Lieut. Weyprecht fails in rounding it, [xxxix];
the sea to the north not always obstructed by ice, ib.;
reasons why the ice is more abundant there than further northward towards the Pole, [clviii], [4], [42];
discovered by Sir Hugh Willoughby, [lxvi];
so called by the Russians, [lxvii];
search if it is the same as Willoughby’s Land, [lxxiv], [lxxv];
error in the estimate of its distance from Senyen, [lxxiv];
seen by Pet, [lxxvii];
particulars by Marsh respecting it, [lxxxiv];
map of it by Isaac Massa, [lxxxviii];
the generic name of a series of islands, [xc];
should properly be restricted to the southernmost of them, [xci];
is visited by Lütke, [cxxxiv];
by Professor von Baer, ib.;
strong current along its western coast, [cxxxv], [266];
identification of places along that coast, [cxxxvi], [cxxxvii];
deer found there, [clxxiii], [5], [8], [104];
the first expedition reaches it, [11];
the third expedition arrives there, [cxxxiii], [89], see Expeditions
Novo-Kholmogorui, [lxx]
Nuffelen (Hans van), clerk to W. Barents, assists in killing a bear, [64]
Nunez, see Balboa
Ob, or Oby, a river of Tartary, instructions given to Bassendine and others for a voyage to it, [lxxiii];
discovered by the English before 1584, [lxxxiii], [lxxxv];
visited by Alferius, [xcii];
his description of it, [xciii];
great masses of ice at its mouth, [xciv];
its wonderful inhabitants, [xcvii];
Nai and Linschoten imagined they had reached it, [cx], [36];
visited by the Russians, [55]