Plancius (Peter), maintains the existence of an open Polar sea, [xxxiii];
one of the promoters of the first expedition, [civ];
his opinion as to Linschoten’s report, [cxi];
assists in the preparations for the second expedition, [41];
persists in the opinion that the passage could be effected, [cxxvii];
his biography, [41]

Poems, see Ode

Polar sea, existence of an open Polar sea maintained by Plancius, [xxxiii]

Polarstern, schooner commanded by F. E. Mack, [xliv]

Pontanus, reference to Barents’s chart in his “History of Amsterdam”, [xxvi];
and his “History” generally, [xxix]

Prinsen, Hof, the Court of Admiralty of Amsterdam, [256]

Protest signed by the officers of the second expedition, [cxx];
erroneously supposed not to have been signed by Barents, ib.

Proverbs and Sayings (Dutch), [106], [135], [159], [165], [174], [183], [196], [245]

Purchas, his reference to Oliver Brunel, [xv], [xcix];
writings of Barents preserved by him, [cvi], [273]

Quale (Captain P.), his voyage in the Yacht Johan Mary, [xliv]