Sloets (President of the States General) signs the instructions given to Linschoten on the second voyage, [cxiv]
Snow, house covered up with, [cxlii], [135], [138], [151], [153], [169]
Soundings off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, [cxli]
Spanish words adopted by the Dutch, [12], [204]
Spitzbergen, its name given by Barents, [xx];
why so called, ib.;
the name not mentioned by De Veer, [xxiii];
first discovered by the Dutch, [cxxx], [77];
supposed to be a part of Greenland, [cxxx], [cxxxii], [clviii], [5], [82];
its discovery wrongly attributed to Sir Hugh Willoughby, ib.;
circumnavigated by the Dutch, [cxxx];
Rijp sailed back to it, [cxxxi];
H. Gerard’s history of it, ib.;
pretended journal of Barents, ib.;
his track falsified by Gerard, [cxxxiii] (but see [xxiii], et seq.);
name of the sea between it and Novaya Zemlya, [cxl]
Splindler (Mr. Christoffel), a Slavonian, interpreter to the first expedition, [civ];
the same to the second expedition, [cxiii];
his duties, ib.
Spoon-wort, see Scurvy-grass
Spruce-beer, [114]
States-General send out an expedition to the north-east, [xcix];
send out a second expedition, their instructions for that expedition, [cxii], [cxiii], [42];
object to send out a third expedition, [cxxvii], [70];
dedication to them of De Veer’s work, [clvii]