Warsina, a river of Lapland, Sir Hugh Willoughby perished there, [lxv]
Watchers, two stars in the Little Bear (Ursa Minor), why so named, [62]
Waygats, see Vaigats
Weyprecht (Lieut.), commands the steamer Tegethof in 1872, [xxxix];
fails in rounding Novaya Zemlya, ib.
Whale seen, [45]
White Sea, Dutch commerce established, [xi];
first entered by Stephen Burrough, [lxvii];
crossed by the Dutch in two boats, [241]
Wieringen, an island on the coast of Holland, [79]
Willemsz. (Laurens), one of the crew who returns to Amsterdam, [257]
Willemsz. (Thomas), commands the Mercury, of Enkhuysen, on the second expedition, [cxii]