An account of several late voyages and discoveries

The introduction 4
Contents of the introduction 29
A Journal kept by Captain John Narborough, &c. 40
Instructions for the better finding each other after separation by chance, foul weather, or otherwise 51
A relation of a voyage made towards the south terra incognita... 169
A relation of a voyage for the discovery of a passage by the north-east, to Japan and China… 181
Journal, in his majestys ship the speed-well, captain John Wood commander… 193
Journal on board the prosperous, captain William Flawes commander, from Nova Zembla to England. 1676. 207
Now, ofter the journal, i do intend to shew my conceptions of the said voyage, and a true relation of our miscarriage; with some observations made in the said voyage 220
Now, i itend to give a brief description of the land, and the observations i made there 228
A table of the wind and weather in the voyage to spitzbergen 232
The first part of the Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland 234
Chap I. Of the voyage from the Elbe to Spitzbergen 234
Chap II. Of our home voyage from Spitzbergen to the Elbe 250
The second part of the Voyage to Spitzbergen: containing the description of Spitzbergen 255
Chap I. Of the external face and appearance of Spitzbergen 255
Chap II. Of the sea 271
Chap III. Of the ice 279
Chap IV. Of the air 288
The Third part of the Voyage to Spitzbergen 298
Chap I. Of the plants of Spitzbergen 298
Chap II. Of the plant with Aloe-leaves 303
Chap III. Of small honse-leek 304
Chap IV. Of crows-foot 305
Chap V. Of Scurvy-grass 309
Chap VI. Of an herb like Stone-crap 310
Chap VII. Of a snake-weed 311
Chap VIII. Of the herb like unto mouse-ear 312
Chap IX. Of a plant like unto periwinkle 313
Chap X. Of an herb like a strawberry 314
Chap XI. Of the rock plant 315
The fourth part of the Voyage to Spitzbergen: of the animals of Spitzbergen 320
Chap I. Of birds with toes or divided feet 321
Chap II. Of the broad or web-footed birds 325
Chap III. Of some other birds that i did not catch or delineate 357
Chap IV. Of the four-footed creatures 354
Chap V. Of the crustaceous fish that i observed 372
Chap VI. 380
Chap VII. Of the whale 393
Chap V. How they catch the whale 411
Chap VII. What they do with the dead whale 424
Chap X. Of the trying out of the train-oyl from the fat 431
Chap XI. Of the finn-fifh 433
Chap XII. Of rotz-fifhes and sea-qualms 437
A supplement to capt. Woods and Martens north-east voyages 446
Freesland, or friseland 478

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