note on,116,177-179.Northeast passage,13,14;Bering's opinion of,35;charting of,36,110,125.Northwest passage,113.Norwegians and Danes in service of Peter the Great,7.Notske, cape,123.Novaia Zemlia,109,111.Novgorod,78.Nystad, peace of,11.OObdorsk,81.Obi River,21,107.Obi, gulf,100.Ofzyn, Lieut.,79;at Obdorsk,81;in Gulf of Obi,93,109;saves the St. Peter,171,172.Okhotsk, arrival at,24,62,79;building of,99;fleet in,103.Okhotsk, sea of, explorations in,26.Olenek,34,92.Ostermann,64,73,189.Ostrog, Kamchatka,27.Othere's,114.PPallas,45.Patience, bay,123.Patience, cape,54.Patiloff,21.Pavlutski, Capt.,43,45,83.Peschel, O.,117,118,146.Petchora,107.Peter the Great, Scandinavians in service of,7;death of,21,63.Petroff,96,119.Petermann, Dr.,111,116.Petropavlovsk, founding of,127.Pissarjeff,65,83;quarrel with Bering,84;sketch of,85,95;removal of,103,126.Plauting,93-96,135.Plenisner,153.Pontanus, J. J.,14.Popoff, Cossack, on Chuckchee peninsula,17,66.Preobrashensky, bay,31.Pribyloff Islands,178.Prince William's Sound,145,148.Pronchisheff,81,92,93,96,109.RReclus,67.Remesoff, atlas of,16.Ruge, Prof.,117,119.Russian fleet, founding of,9.SSaghalin, island,54;charting of,125.Sarycheff, Admiral, at Kuriles,120,146,148.Sauer, M.,146;description of St. Elias,147.Saunders, Vice-Admiral,11.Savjaloff,167.Schaep, H. C.,54.Schelagskii, cape,110.Schelting, Lieut.,119.Scurvy,182.Schwatka,21.Sea Cow,179: correct scientific name,179;extermination of,179;importance of,180.Sea Lion,178.Sea Lion Island,175.Sea Otter,177.Seljonyi, island,123.Semichi Islands,167.Semidi Islands,159.Senate, Russian, orders of,64.Serdze Kamen, cape,30et seq.Shafiroff,85.Shantar Islands,65.Shestakoff,18,56.Shumagins, discovery of,161;stay at,162,164.Siberia, determinations of longitude in,38;scientific exploration of,68.Sievers, Peter,9.Sikotan, island,123.Skeving,9.Skuratoff,109.Soimonoff,73.Sokoloff, K.,75;opinion of Spangberg,84,94;Bering's assistants,95;opinion of Bering,96,100,116;qualifications of,137,159;reproved by Bancroft,189;note.Spangberg. M., in first expedition,21;at the Kut,22;winter at the Yudoma,24;sets sail,26,50;instructions to,66,77,82;nativity of,84;accusations against,94,96;at Okhotsk,100;expedition to Japan,102,117;return to Bolsheretsk,120;results of expedition,125;return to Yakutsk,126;at Kirinsk,126;return from third expedition to Japan,190.Spangberg's Island,123.Staaten Eiland,54,117,133.St. Abraham Island,168.Stanovoi Mts.,84,89.St. Elias, island,141et seq.Stejneger, L., Dr., translator's preface;note on,173,178;note by,174;description of Steller's Arch,176;concerning sea-cow,179,180.Steller, G. W., opinion of Bering's first expedition,46,57,92;estimate of Bering,97;at Okhotsk,103;joins the Pacific expedition,135;nativity and sketch of,136;diary of,137;on American soil,141;description of St. Elias,147,150;ridicules Bering,151;165;description of animal life,176;honored by Stejneger,176, note;care of the castaways,181;account of Bering's death,186.Steller, Mount,176, note.Steller's Triumphal Arch, description of,176, note;representation of,177.Sterlegoff,80,109.St. Hermogenes, island,152;discovery of,156.St. Johannes, island,165.St. Kresta Bay,31;the Gabriel at,31,46.St. Lawrence Island,34,41.St. Marcus Island,167.St. Paul, ship, building of,100,102;crew of,135;course of,139.St. Peter, building of,100,102;crew of,135;journals of,137;course of,139;return voyage,156et seq.;at Shumagins,164;determinations of latitude by,167;stranding of,172.Strahlenberg,18;outline maps by,20,118.St. Stephen, island,158,167.St. Thaddeus, cape,30.Stuxberg, A., Dr.,111.Suckling, cape,146.TTabbert (Strahlenberg),55.Taimyr, peninsula,82,93,109;cartography of,114,115.Taroko, islands,123.Texeïra,55.Three Sisters, islands,124.Tigil,128.Tobol,79;launching of,80.Tobolsk, arrival at,21.Tolbukhin, Lieut.,102.Tordenskjold, Peter, note on,9.Trane, Thure,9.Tumannoi Island,158.Tunguska River,22.Tuscarora,139.UUdinsk,62.Ukamok, island,158.Urak, river,23.Ural Mts.,68.Urup, island,117.Ustkutsk,22.Ust Maiskaya,88.VVancouver,67,144,148.Vancouver's Island,158.Van Dieman,54.Vangondie, R. de,39.Van Haven,78.Varkhoiansk,102.Vega expedition,109,113-115,179.Viligin,18.Vlaming,112.Volga,80.Von Baer,36,41,48,72,98,111,115;concerning sea-cow,180,192.Voyage of the Vega,113-115,179.Vries, M. de,54,117,124.WWalton,96,120,121,126.Walvisch Bay,123.Waxel, Lieut.,96,135,137,152;in command of the St. Peter,161,167,169,170.Wilster, D., Admiral,9.Wingham Island,146,147.Witsen, N.,15.Wrangell,110,113.Wrangell Island,18.YYablonoi, Mts.,16.Yakutat Bay (Bering Bay),146.Yakutsk,62;foundry at,83.Yakutsk, sloop,81.Yelagin,127.Yenisei,22,107.Yevrinoff,17,119,132.Yudoma, river,23.Yudomskaya Krest,23.Yezo,14,117.