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Namollo, ii. 80, 221

Naples, stay at, ii. 443

Narainzay river, i. 225

Narborough, John, i. 260

Narwhal, i. 165, 418

Narontza river, i. 225n

Nathorst, A.G., ii. 332, 394, 408

Nay, C., i. 232

Nearchus, i. 169

Nedrevaag, A.O., i. 298

Negri, C., i. 34; ii. 443

Nephrite among the Eskimo, ii. 236; among the Chinese, ii. 236n, 399

Neremskoe, i. 172

Neumann, C. von, ii. 79, 118

New Siberian Islands, i. 23, 131n, 132, 413; ii. 171n; exploratory journeys to, i. 412; first visited by Europeans, ii. 204; journeys to, ii. 205

Nierop, i. 203

Nikul river, ii. 167

Nilson, K., ii. 453

Njaskaja, i. 370

Noah Elisej, ii. 50; portrait, ii. 51

Noah's Wood, i. 30, 207, 381; ii. 207n

Nobel, A., ii. 452

Nordenskioeld, K., i. 320; ii. 406n

Nordenskioeld (steamer), ii. 298, 301

Nordquist, O., i. 4, 37, 39, 187, 200, 202, 319, 321, 327, 444, 446n, 489; ii. 12, 44, 82, 115, 315, 362, 369, 371, 435, 447; excursion to Menka's home, i. 497; visit to Pidlin, i. 502; excursion to Nutschoitjin, ii. 18; on the animals wintering in Chukch Laud, ii. 44; portrait, ii. 435

Nordvik, ii. 190

Noril Mountains, i. 360

North-east Land, inland ice on, i. 176

North-east Passage, reasons of search for, i. 58, 231; prize for its discovery, i. 246

North Pole, said to have been reached, i. 263

Norways, the i. 109

Northbrook, Earl of, ii. 451

Notti, ii. 7, 19, 22, 129; portrait, ii. 8

Novara Elliya, ii. 432

Novaya Sibir, ii. 204, 205, 206

Novaya Zemlya, animal life there, i. 107; first known to West-Europeans, i. 215; its name, i. 216; Russian landmarks on, i. 228n; its northern extremity passed for the first time, i. 248; proposal to colonise it, i. 271n; supposed riches in metals, i. 277; Russian voyages to, i. 280; Norwegian voyages to, i. 293; curcumnavigation of, i. 297

Nummelin, G.A., i. 211, 314; portrait, i. 316

Nunamo, ii. 222

Nutschoitjin, excursion to, ii. 18

O

Ob, Gulf of, Owzyn's voyage on, ii. 185, 186; surveyed, ii. 186

Ob, river territory, i. 372n; navigable, i. 374; first mentioned, ii. 157; Russian navigation to in former times, i. 226, 244, 271; English vessel stranded at, i. 229n, 256; vessel stranded east of, i. 271; Russian expedition to, ii. 183; recent voyages to, i. 313

Obdorsk, i. 204, 290; ii. 185, 186

Observatory, magnetical, at Pitlekaj, i. 473, 509

Oiwaki, ii. 352

Okotsk, ii. 174

Okotsk, Sea of, bottom frozen, ii. 61n; navigation on, ii. 175, 176

Okuschi, ii. 364

Old Believers, Russian sect i. 179, 270n

Olenek river, i. 20, 26, ii. 160, 188, 190

Olutorsk river, ii. 165

Onkilon tribe, the ii. 80, 221; excavations on the sites of old dwellings i. 444, implements, i. 444; Wrangel's account of them, i. 446

Oom, L.G., i. 243

Oordt, Consul van, ii. 298

Ophiacantha bidentata, i. 345

Ophioglypha nodosa, ii. 49

Orange Island, i. 241

Orange Islands, i. 234, 248

Orca gladiator, i. 170

Orosius, Paulus, i. 47n

Osaka, ii. 364, 366

Oscar, Duke of Gotland, ii. 453, 454

Oscar, King, i. 2, 3; ii. 459, 460, 463

Osche, ii. 278

Oshima, ii. 297

Osmerus eperlanus, i. 494

Ostatiof, M., ii. 72

Ostyaks, i. 384

Otaria Stelleri, see Sea lion

Otaria ursina, see Sea-bear

Othere, i. 158; voyage, i. 47

Otter, F.W. von, i. 3; ii. 460

Owl, snowy, i. 131; observed during expedition, i. 343, 352

Owzyn, Lieut, i. 16; ii. 185, 186

P

Pachtussov, voyages of, i. 279; death of, i. 282

Paget, Sir A.B., ii. 446

Paj-Roj mountain, the, i. 74

Palander, L, i. 4, 9, 10n, 11, 36, 38, 137, 141, 172, 176, 190, 191, 319, 348, 429, 456, 474, 478, 509; ii. 67, 131, 226, 256, 298, 401, 410, 412, 443, 445, 447, 451n, 463; excursion to a reindeer-chukch camp, ii. 15; portrait, ii. 68

Pallas, ii. 211, 275

Pallavicini, Prince, ii. 445

Palliser, John, i. 286

Palmieri, Prof., ii. 445

Panelapoetski, i. 262

Pansch, Dr., i. 140n

Pappan Island, ii. 409

Paradeniya, botanic garden at, ii. 428

Parent, E., ii. 446

Paris, fetes at, ii. 453

Parositi, Asiatic tribe, i. 103n

Parry Island, i. 113, 133

Parry, Sir Edward, ii. 144, 210

Paulov, Lieut, i. 272; i. 183

Paulutski, D., ii. 75, 221

Payer, i., 266, 422

Pedrotalagalla, ii. 414, 432

Pekarski, ii. 275

Pelikan, Consul, ii. 298

Penschina Bay, ii. 75

Penschina River, ii. 166

Permakov, J., ii. 169

Perry, Commodore, ii. 297

Pet, A., i. 60, 172; his voyages, i. 227

Petchora river, i. 55, 219, 224; ii. 157

Peter the Great, ii. 175, 179

Petermann, A., his belief that the Polar Sea is occasionally navigable, i. 265

Petersen, C., i. 143, 423

Petropaulovsk, ii. 196, 268, 294

Pet's Straits, i. 172

Phalarope, i 128, 191, 320; observed during the expedition, i. 415, 437; ii. 42

Philip and Mary (vessel), i. 226n

Phipps Island, i. 133

Phoca barbata, i. 159n, 162, 334

Phoca Groenlandica, i. 165; young of the, 164

Phoca hispida, i. 165, 343

Pidlin, i. 485; excursion to, i. 502

Pinto, Major, ii. 448

Piper, Count, ii. 451

Pitlekaj, i. 485; flora at, i. 468; appearance of, ii. 60

Pjaesina River, i. 193; ii. 187; is discovered, ii. 160

Plancius, Dutch geographer, i. 232

Pleuropogon Sabini, i. 332

Pliny the elder, ii. 153, 157n

Plover expedition, ii. 79, 245

Podurids, Novaya Zemlya, i. 148

Poetry, Japanese, ii. 382

Pogytscha, River, ii. 162

Point de Galle, arrival at, ii. 414; departure from, ii. 437

Polar bear seen during the expedition, i. 190, 339, 353; ii. 46; account of, i. 137

Polar Sea hunting, i. 291

Pole of cold, i. 474

Police in Japan, ii. 331

Polo, Marco, i. 58, 144; ii. 154, 157n; his life, ii. 153

Polynias, i. 466

Pompeii, excursion to, ii. 444

Pontchartrin, Count de, ii. 216

Poole, J., i. 291

Popov, ii. 78

Porcelain manufacture in Japan, ii. 381

Port Clarence, ii. 226

Port Dickson, i. 18; stay at, i. 189; its discovery, i. 311

Porthan, i. 47

Portugal, stay in, ii. 447

Pospjelov, i. 277

Postels, ii. 245

Postnik, ii. 161

Potatoes, antiscorbutic, i. 11

Preobraschenie Island, i. 353

Pribylov, ii. 212

Pribylov Islands, ii. 258

Priluschnoj, i. 195

Procellaria galcialis, i. 108

Promontorium Scythicum, ii. 153

Promontorium Tabin, ii. 153

Prontschischev, i. 19; ii. 188, 189

Protodiakonoff, Z., i. 418

Proeven (hunting sloop), i. 1, 292

Provision depot on land, i. 473

Ptolemy, ii. 152

Purchas, i. 62n

Puschkarev, ii. 203

Pustosersk, i. 75

Putrefaction slow in the Polar regions, i. 167

Pyramids, the, visit to, ii. 440

Q

Quaen Sea, i. 215

Quaens, skilful harpooners, i. 224

Quale, P, i. 298

Quatrefages, ii. 453

R

Rabaut, A., ii. 447

Railway, Siberian, i. 375

Rambodde, ii. 432

Ratnapoora, ii. 416

Recherche's wintering, ii. 36

Red ochre, ii. 235

Red Sea, ii. 439

Reindeer, tame, i. 78; wild, i. 132

Reindeer's skin used for clothing, i. 37

Reindeer's stomach, contents of, consumed by the Chukches, i. 435

Reitinacka, ii. 57, 58

Renoe, i. 43

Rhinoceros antiquitatis, i. 406

Rhinoceros Merckii, i. 411

Rhytina, ii. 272

Riccio, ii. 444

Richter, Consul-general, ii. 451

Rijp, i. 246

Riksdag, the, supports the expedition, i. 5

Rio-San, ii. 382

Rirajtinop, i. 485

Robeck, ii. 211

Rodgers, i. 26

Rokuriga-hara, ii. 348

Romanzov, ii. 204

Rondes (sable), i. 145

Rookery, ii. 282

Rossmuislov, i. 274

Rotgansen, i. 247

Rotschilten, ii. 16, 31

Roule, C., i. 216

Rubies, ii. 419

Ruggieri, Prof., ii. 444

Ruinlike rock formations, i. 428

Runeberg, R., i. 8

Ruspoli, Prince, ii. 445

Russians, at Chabarova, i. 79

S

Sabinea septemcarinata, ii. 48

Sachanich Bay, i. 236n

Sacrificial heights, i. 92

Saigo Kichinosuke ii. 303

Sajsan, Lake, i. 374

Salix artica, ii. 65

Samoyeds, i. 77; their idols, i. 85, 94; their dress, i. 89; Compared with other Polar races, i. 91; burying place, i. 97; their weapons, i. 99; old accounts of them, i. 100; their place in ethnography, i. 103

Samurai, ii. 376

Sandman, Captain, ii. 294

Sandpiper, see Phalarope

Sankin Grigorej, ii. 170

Sannikov, i. 24

Sanyo Sanitomi, ii. 303

Saostrovskoj, i. 311

Sapetto, Prof., ii. 439

Sapphires, ii. 419

Sarytschev, ii. 408

Satow, E M, ii. 321

Sauer, Martin, i. 418

Savavatari, ii. 337

Savina river, i. 280

Schalaurov, ii. 200

Schelags, ii. 170

Schelechov, G, ii. 270n

Scheltinga, ii. 198

Schestakov, A, ii. 74

Schigansk, i. 369

Schmidt, F, i. 409

Schmidt, H, i. 360

Schrenck, L von, i. 410

Schtinnikov, A, ii. 182

Schwanenberg, D, i. 9n, 314

Scoresby, i. 143n

Scurvy, i. 45; ii. 295

Sea-bear, the, ii. 272

Sea-cow, ii. 272

Sea-lion, i. 446; ii. 267

Sea-otter, ii. 271

Sea-spider, i. 349

Seals, i. 162

Sealskin used as clothing, i. 37

Searchthrift (vessel), i. 217

Seebohm, Mr., i. 315

Selenetz Islands, i. 228

Selenga, i. 374

Selennoe Lake, i. 269

Self-dead animals, i. 322

Selifontov, i. 204

Selivaninskoj, i. 387

Selivestrov, ii. 166n

Semenoffski Island, i. 414

Semipalitinsk, i. 373

Senjavin Sound, ii. 244

Senkiti-San, ii. 336

Serapoa Koska, i. 217

Serdze Kamen, i. 467

Seribrenikoff, S.J., i. 39

Seven Islands, i. 117

Severnoe Sianie, i. 211

Shamans, ii. 128

Shaman drums, ii. 24

Shimonoseki. ii. 387

Shintoism, ii. 378

Sibbern, ii. 453

Siberian Polar Sea, i. 14, 28

Siberian cattle plague, i. 78

Sibir, ii. 159

Sibiriakoff, A., i. 2, 3, 8, 24

Sibiriakoff Island, ii. 312

Sidoroff, M., i. 211

Sidoroff's graphite quarry, ii. 235

Siebold, P.H.F. von, ii. 326

Siebold, H. von, ii. 326

Sieversia glacialis, i. 197

Simonsen, i. 300

Simovies, i. 193

Simpson, John, ii. 118

Singapore, ii. 413

Singhalese, ii. 424

Sirovatskoj, ii. 204

Skoptzi in Siberia, i. 387

Skuratov, i. 204

Slaves among the Chukches, ii. 123

Sledges, i. 82, 83

Smitt, F.A., ii. 59

Snobberger, C.P., i. 259

Snow-blindness, i. 477; ii. 10

Snow-bunting, the, ii. 129

Snow-drifting, i. 483

Snow-shoes, ii. 102

Snow-spectacles, i. 477; ii. 10

Snow, the melting of the, ii. 34

Snups, M., ii. 157n

Sokolov, ii. 176

Solovets, ii. 157

Somateria molissima, i. 123

Somateria spectabilis, i. 123

Somateria V.-nigrum, ii. 42

Spangberg, Martin, ii. 179

Spinel, ii 423

Spirits, i. 440; ii. 13, 116, 118

Spitzbergen hunting, history of, i. 29

Spitzbergen, its discovery ascribed to Willoughby, i. 62n; discovered by Barents, i. 247; Russian voyages to, i. 291; Norwegian voyages to, i. 293

Spottiswoode, Mr., ii. 451

Springs, hot, ii. 343

St. James's Islands, i. 223

St. Laurens Bay, i. 236

St. Lawrence Bay, ii. 212, 218

St. Lawrence Island, i. 154; ii. 250

Stegocephalus Kessleri, ii. 48

Stellar, G.N., ii. 80, 187n, 200, 266; his death, ii. 268

Steppes, Siberian, i. 384

Sterna macroura, i. 123

Stockholm, arrival at, ii. 459

Stolbovoj Island, i. 414

Stone Pacha, ii. 440

Stone polishing works in Canton, ii. 399

Strabo, ii. 148, 151

Strahlenberg i. 405

Strix nyctea, i. 131

Stroganov, Russian commercial house, i. 235

Stuxberg, A., i. 3, 38, 151, 193, 194, 198, 311, 324, 438, 451; ii. 225, 291, 315, 434; portrait, ii. 435

Suez, arrival at, ii. 440

Suez Canal, the, ii. 441

Sujeff, student, i. 185n

Swan, Bewick's, i. 127

Swedish expedition of 1875, the, i. 12; visits Yalmal, i. 205; reaches the Yenisej, i. 311

Swedish prisoners of war in Siberia, ii. 175

Swell from falling pieces of ice dangerous to vessels, i. 183n

Sword-bearing in Japan, ii. 377

Sylvia Ewersmanni, ii. 43

Sylvius, AEneas, i. 52n

T

Tabin, Promontorium, i. 13, 241

Taffelbeiget, ii. 29

Tagil river, the, ii. 159

Taimur Island, i. 331

Taimur lake, ii. 192

Taimur Land, inhabited by Samoyeds, i. 244n position of its east coast, i. 352; Minin's travels along the coast, ii. 187

Taimur river, the, i. 409

Takasaki, ii. 325

Takasima coal mine, ii. 394

Tamils, ii. 424

Tanning reindeer hides hides, ii. 122

Tas-ary, i. 362, 368

Tas river, the, ii. 156, 159n

Tatarinov, Feodor, ii. 203

Tatariov, Cossack, ii. 206

Tattooing, Chukch, i. 499; ii. 99; Eskimo, at Port Clarence, ii. 232; Eskimo, at St. Lawrence island ii. 251, 252

Tazata, Insula, ii. 155

Teano, Prince, ii. 445, 446

Temples in Japan, ii. 375, 377; on Ceylon, ii. 425

Tennent, E, ii. 415n, 419, 424n

Terfins, i. 48n

Tetgales, B.Y., i. 232

Thalassiophyllum Clathrus, ii. 293

Theel, Hj, i. 3, 311

Theatres in Japan, ii. 356

Thorne, Robert, i. 57n

Thunberg, C.P., ii. 43, 326n

Thwaites, Dr., ii. 428

Tietgen, state councillor, ii. 456

Tigil River, the, ii. 167n, 176

Tintinyaranga, i. 509

Tjapka, Chukch village, ii. 20

Tjumen, ii. 159, 268

Tobacco, its use among the Chukches, ii. 116; in Japan, ii. 321

Tobiesen, S.K., i. 108, 141, 144, 152, 300; his voyage to Spitzbergen, i. 302; wintering on Bear Island, i. 303; his death, i. 305; his portrait, i. 303

Tobol river, the, ii. 159

Tobolsk, i. 344; ii. 185, 186

Tokaido road, the, ii. 315

Tokio, visit to, ii. 304; the Shoguns' graves at, ii. 309

Topaz, ii. 400, 419

Toporkoff Island, ii. 291

Torosses, i. 425, 463; ii. 2

Toxar Island, i. 239

Treacher, Governor, ii. 408

Trees, distribution of, in Siberia, i. 383

Tringa maritima, i. 128

Trofimov's mammoth, i. 409

Tromsoe, Vega's stay at, i. 38; its climate, i. 45n

Tumat Island, i. 362

Tundra, appearance of the, i. 378

Tunguses, i. 384, 408; ii. 191

U

Umbellula in the Kara Sea, i. 184

Ural-Altaic race, i. 103

Uria Bruennichii, i. 110

—— grylle, i. 113

Urusov, Prince, ii. 445

Ustjansk, ii. 205, 206

Usui toge, ii. 352

V

Vardoe, i. 66, 68; climate of, i. 45

Varsina river, the, i. 66

Varthema, Luduvico de, ii. 438

Vasa Murrhina, ii. 236n

Vaygats Island, i. 77, 93; discovered, i. 215; visited by Pet, i. 228

Veer, Gerrit de, i. 101; his book, i. 245 Vega, the, purchased, i. 8; description of, i. 9; equipment of, i. 11; position when frozen in, i. 468; action of cold on, i. 466; prepared for wintering, i. 469; repaired, ii. 396; sold, ii. 463

Vessels, Norse, i. 50; Russian, on the Polar sea, i. 219

Vlamingh, i. 258

Volcanic dust in Scandinavia, i. 330

Volcanoes, ii. 249

Vulpes lagopus, see Fox, Arctic

—— vulgaris, see Fox, common

W

Waern, C.F., i. 5

Waldburg-Zeil, Count, i. 205

Walden Island, i. 112

Walrus, i. 152

Walton, Lieut., ii. 198

Wax tree, the Japanese, ii. 389

Waxel, Lieut, ii. 197

Weasel, ii. 46

Werchojansk, i. 411

Werkon, the river, ii. 202

Weyprecht, i. 266

Whales, on the coast of Norway, i. 49; scarce at Novaya Zemlya, i, 168; fear of, in ancient times, i. 169; with European harpoons, found in the Pacific, i. 264

Whale bones on Spitzbergen, i. 168; sub-fossil at Pitlekaj, i. 520; used is building materials, ii. 223; at St. Lawrence Island, ii. 253

Whale-fishing, described by Albertus Magnus, i. 159n; at Spitzbergen, i. 168

Whale mummy at Pitlekaj, i. 523

White-fronted goose, i. 124

White Island, see Beli Ostrov

White Sea, the, i. 215

White whale, the, i. 79, 167

Widmark, H.A., ii. 35

Wiemut, Julian, ii. 294

Wiggins, J., i. 311, 312; portrait, i. 313

Wilkoffski, ii. 238

Willoughby, Sir Hugh, i. 13, 58; portrait, i. 59

Willoughby's, Land, i. 62

Wilui river, the, i. 406

Wood, Captain, i. 260

Wosnessenski, conservator, ii. 276

Wrangel, Ferdinand von, i. 23, 265, 446, journeys, ii. 209; portrait, ii. 208

Wrangel Land, i. 23, 26, 448; ii. 171n, 202, 209; landing on, i. 448

Wrestlers, Japanese, ii. 339

Wulfstan's travels, i. 50

Y

Yakovieva, i. 316

Yakuts, i. 384; ii. 161

Yakutsk, i. 19, 22, 26, 370, 371; ii. 187, 190, 193

Yalmal, exclusion to, i. 201; visited in 1875, i. 205; population i. 204; origin of the name, i. 203; old accounts of, i. 204; surveyed, ii. 185

Yana River, the, i. 418n

Yanimoto, ii. 366

Yefremov Kamen, i. 376

Yekargauls, i. 498

Yelmert, i. 203

Yelmert Land, i. 203

Yenisej, the, voyages of the Fraser and the Empress, up, i. 357; ascent of, in 1875, i. 387; river territory, i. 372; navigable, i. 373; its banks, i. 377; vegetation on, i. 381; steamers on, i. 394; discovered, ii. 160; Russian navigation on, in former times, i. 243; Russian sea, expeditions to, ii. 185; Minin's voyages on, ii. 186; later voyages to, i. 311

Yenisej, mouth of the, map of, i. 192; formerly inhabited, i. 193; winter at, i. 209

Yettugin, ii. 29, 67, 125

Yii gate, the, ii. 399

Yinretlen, i. 485

Ymer (steamer), i. 1, 9n, 312, 358

Yokohama, ii. 296; arrival at, ii. 295; departure from, ii. 364

Yokosuka, ii. 396

Yoldia Artica, i. 199

Young, Sir Allen, ii. 451

Yugor Schar, i. 14; expedition passes, i. 171; rules for sailing through, i. 172; harbours in, i. 174; origin of the name, i. 172; Pet did not sail through, i. 228; map of, i. 242

Yukagires, ii. 75

Yukagir dwellings, remains of, on the New Siberian Islands, ii. 209

Z

Zaritza (steamer), i. 360

Zeno, i. 53

Ziegler's map of the north, i. 53

Zivolka, A.K., i. 282; portrait, i. 284

Zircon, ii. 423

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Vol I page xxvi "Yenissej" changed to "Yenisej" [ to match many instances in text ]

Vol I page 22 "Staduschin" changed to "Staduschin" [ to match 11 other instances in the text ]

Vol I page 43 "Middendorf" changed to "Middendorff" [ to match 19 other instances in text ]

Vol I page 51 "Ptolemoei Cosmographia" changed to "Ptolemaei Cosmographia" [ confirmed on internet as the correct spelling, also correct in one other instance in the text ]

Vol I page 73 "Besimmanaja Bay" changed to "Besimannaja Bay" [ to match 5 other instances in text ]

Vol I page 219 "Cape Woronov" changed to "Cape Voronov" [ to match entry in index and confirmed on Internet ]

Vol I page 310 "Novya Zemlaya" changed to "Novaya Zemlya" [ over 200+ instances of "Novaya Zemlya" ]

Vol I page 315 "Sewernoe Sianie" changed to "Severnoe Sianie" [ to match 2 other instances in text ]

Vol I page 317 "Meywaldt" changed to "Meyenwaldt" [ to match 2 other instances in text, note also spelt as "Meyenvaldt" in the index ]

Vol I page 377 "YEKISEJ" changed to "YENISEJ" [ to match many instances in text ]

Vol I page 397 "MIDDENDORF" changed to "MIDDENDORFF" [ to match 19 other instances in text ]

Vol I page 451 "Redogoerese" changed to "Redogoerelse" [ to match 4 other instances in the text ]

Vol II page xvi "Pribyloo" changed to "Pribylov" [ to match 4 other instances in the text ]

Vol II page 140 "ocasionally" changed to "occasionally"

Vol II page 183 "Dolgoj Island" changed to "Dolgoi Island" [ to match index and 2 other instances in text ]

Vol II page 249 "Hessal Gerritz" changed to "Hessel Gerritz" [Internet book text search gives both variations of surname see under differences of spelling below, but always "Hessel" as the first name of the author ]

Vol II page 432 "Pedrotalegalla" changed to "Pedrotalagalla" [ to match 2 other instances in text, also confirmed on Internet as correct spelling for this mountain ]

Vol II page 447 "Nutschoitzin" changed "Nutschoitjin" [ to match other index entry and 6 instances in the text ]

Vol II page 481 "Vlaming" changed to "Vlamingh" [ to match 8 other instances in text ]

Differences noticed in spelling, these remain unchanged as it is not obvious which is correct.

"Bruzewitz" In index and Illustration, but "Brusewitz" in text

"Engehardt's" or "Engelhardt's"

"Hessel Gerritsz" or "Hessel Gerritz"

"Gusinnaja Semlja" or "Gusinnyja Semlja"

"Gwosdarev" in text, but "Gvosdarev" in index

"Cape Kamennoj" in text, but "Cape Kammennoj" in index

"Kolmogorsov" in text, but "Kolmogorzov" in index

"Krassilnikoff's" in text, but "Krassilinikoff" in index

"Labuan" in text, but "Labaan" in index

"Matvejev" in text, but "Matveyev" in index

"Meyenwaldt" in text, but "Meyenvaldt" in index

"Morgiouets" in text, but "Morgiovets" in index

"Mutnoi" in text, but "Mutnoj" in index

"Oiwake" in text, but "Oiwaki" in index

"Rotschitlen" in text, but "Rotschilten" in index

"Sarytchev" or "Sarytschev"

"Semenoffskoj" in text, but "Semenoffski" in index

"Gusinnaja Semlja" in text, but "Gusinnaya Semlya" in index

"Serebrenikoff" in text, but "Seribrenikoff" in index

"skuggsja" in text, but "skuggja" in index

"Sumiyashi" In list of illustrations, but "SUMIYOSHI" Caption on illustration

"Tajmur river" or "Taimur river"

"Volodomir" in text, but "Volodimir" in index

"Yekargaules" in text, but "Yekargauls" in index

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