Parhelia, see Mock-suns
Passage to China by the north-east, see North-east
Pechora, a river of Tartary, [55];
voyage of discovery to it by Bassendine and others, [lxxi];
visited by Alferius, [xcii];
Oliver Brunel lost there, [xcvii]
Pet (Arthur), Barents’s “Journal” a translation of his and Jackman’s, [v], [lxii];
commissioned by the Russia Company for a voyage to the north-east, [lxxv];
sails from Harwich, [lxxvi];
his course after separating from Jackman, [lxxvii];
first enters the Yugorsky Shar, [lxxviii];
which should therefore be called Pet’s Strait, ib.;
impeded by ice in the Kara Sea, [lxxviii];
again joined by Jackman, ib.;
they decide on returning, [lxxix];
arrives safe at Ratcliff, [lxxx];
defence of his character as an able navigator, [lxxxi]
Pet’s Strait, called by the Dutch the Strait of Nassau, and by the Russians Yugorsky Shar, [xxxiii], [lxxviii]
Petchora river, Brunel’s ship with cargo wrecked there, [xiv]
Petermann (Augustus), his track of Barents’s third voyage incorrect, [xvii];
never followed by any known ship, [xxv];
lays down Barents’s track, [cix];
his observations thereon, ib.;
and on the geography of Novaya Zemlya, [cxl]
Philip of Spain, his war against the Dutch, [iii]
Phillip (William), remarks on his translation of De Veer’s work, [clxxii];
other works translated by him, [clxxiii] [[286]]