INDEX

Abruzzi’s “farthest,” 97 highest, 126

Adams, Mt., Bluffs of, 26

Ahmah, Merktoshah’s wife, 259

Ahngmalokto, 115

“Ahnighito,” meteorite brought home, 295

Ahsayoo, 323

Albert and Polaris, channels navigated, 50

Aldrich’s “farthest,” 174, 188, 190

Almy boilers, 18

Appearance of glacier, see Ice

Arctic autumn night, 57

Arctic, beginning of winter, 47, 48 canons of navigation, 39 Circle, 178 Circle crossed, 19 day, 16 exploration, its main purpose, 295 ice, from Cape Sabine to Grant Land, 30 life at Godhavn, 20 library, 11 maps, 11 perfect summer night, 20 purple flowers, grass, moss, 195 summer, end of, 47 night; surface of Inglefield Gulf; ice; icebergs and glaciers; slopes of the “great ice”; red-brown bluffs, 26 ship, main work of, 362 power of, 364 wood essential in construction of, 365 terns, 226 three degrees beyond Arctic Circle; keen breeze, aspect of water; aspect of cliffs of Disco, 20; “Ultima Thule,” 326 winter, 317

Alert, winter quarters of, 49

Assizes Harbour, 275

Attainment of the Pole, x

Anoritok, 259

Aurora, seen while lying at Domino Run, 17

Autumn, work of, 299

Bache Island, a peninsula, 300

Barometer, 18

Bartlett, Capt. Robt. A., see personnel of the party under Expedition, 4, 16, 17, 33, 39, 46, 78, 173, 259, 312 his departure for Cape Hecla, 97 Samuel, 4 John, 4 Harry, 4 Moses, mate, see personnel of the party under Expedition, 5

Basis of successful national character, viii

398Battle Harbour, 275

Battle with the ice, lasting 75 days, 259

Bay, Allman, 298, 302 Belknap, 57 Bismarck, 332 Buchanan, 34, 336 Carl Ritter, 310 Chateau, 16 Cope’s, 298 Disraeli, 227 Franklin Pierce, 302 Hand, 163 Independence, 332 Jas. Ross, 233 Lady Franklin, 43, 307, 334 Lincoln, 47 McClintock, 186 Maury, 36 Melville, no ice seen in bay, 21 Musk-ox, 311 Newman, 40, 43 North Star, 22 off Milne, 225 Parker Snow, last of the Eskimos landed, 266 Parr, 232 Porter, 56 Princess Marie, filled with ice, 297 sledge trip, 298 reconnoissance of, 300 Rawlings, packed with ice, 36, 304 Richardson, 36, 304 Rowan, 57 Sagdlek, 271 St. Patrick, 311, 334 Sawyer and Woodward, arms of Princess Marie Bay, 300 Scoresby, squeezed into, 36, 302 Shift Rudder, 248 Wrangel, 46 full of slack ice, ship delayed by floe in, 249 Yelverton, 224 full of glaciers, 189

Bear, first seen by the Expedition, 258 hunt, 336 Polar, 259

Bears, 300

Bear Camp, 300

Beaumont, 165

Bedford Pim Island, 335

Belle Isle, graveyard of ships, 16

Benedict, E. C., 288

Benedict, H. H., 288

Bergs, see first appearance, under Ice; see 68° Lat., under Ice; fleet of, see Ice; two, see Ice; at Cape John Barrow, 303; see small berg, under Ice; berg-like, see Ice

Bright depot of boats, coal and provisions landed, 34

Big Lead, 135, 143, 144 ice on northern side, scar of, 142 open water, 143

Black Cape, 63, 339 Horn Cliffs, 164 fronted by open water, 322

Bliss, Eliphalet W., 288

Blue-top floe-bergs, see Ice

“Bo’sun” bird, 18

Bradford, 4

Brant, 187, 195 flock of, 208 at Southwest Camp, 215

Bridgman, Herbert L., 288, 289, 296, 335, 349

399Brown children of the ice, 124

Buchanan “Strait,” 300

Cache, 223, 333 on hummock of old floe, 120 of musk-ox meat, 163 of provisions, 199 deposited at Cape D’Urville, 298 at Cape Sabine, 315

Cairn, Alert’s, at Floeberg Beach, 50 record, 55 at summit of 1,600 ft. record deposited, 207 at top of Columbia, 183 built near ice-foot, 210, 219, 240, 329, 332 Lockyer Island, 298 at Cape Morris K. Jesup, 329 Alert’s—Alert’s winter quarters, 339

Cairn Point, ship headed for, 257

Camp, between enormous hummocks, 111 first, 153 floe, see Ice off Challenger Point, 181 on outer swell of glacier, 224

Campaign, preparation for spring, 336

Caribou, from Ellesmere Land, 349–351

Cape Albert, 34, 337 Albert Edward, 189 Alfred Ernest, 190 Alexandra, 185 Alexander, reached at midnight, 265 Athol, 266 Anguille, on Newfoundland coast, 15 Baird, 307, 250 Beechy, 249 Benêt, 324 Brevoort, 40, 321 Bridgman, latitude of, 328 Bryant, 324, 43 Calhoun, sailed into loose ice, 39 Chalon, 29, 265 Collision, 337 Conger, time spent in homely duties, 338 Cracroft, 307 Creswell, 177 Desfosse, 253 Defosse, 338 Discovery, 186 D’Urville, 36, 297 Dudley Diggs, 266 Dyer, 270 Fanshawe Martin, 187 same Lat. as Hecla, deep snow, 188, 225 Farewell and Chidley, in latitude of, 18 Fraser, 302 dog-food and supplies advanced to, 310, 337 Harrigan, 17 Harrison, tidal current, 298 Hecla, 56, 177, 340 three marches from Sheridan; time spent there; occupation while there, 97 difficulties in reaching, 233 Henry Cliffs, 234 Isabella, 34 John Sparrow, 36 Joseph Goode, 36 Joseph Henry, 57, 63, 234 400Lawrence, 304, 306, 336, Lieber to Joe Island, 250 Leopold von Buch, 319, 337 Louis Napoleon, 301 supplies at, 302, 336 Lupton, 39 May, 150 Morris K. Jesup, 147 Nares, 183 Neumeyer, 148 North, young ice on tidal crack, 324 Norton Shaw, 303 Parry, 25, 266 Rawson, 43, 49 Richardson, 339 Ramsay, 325 Carl Ritter, 337 Sabine, densely packed with ice, 34, 335, 337 Sheridan, extremity of, ice packed heavily against point of, 50 to Cape Hecla, 177 Stanton, 324 Summer, 39, 40 Sumner, 321 Union, 40, 166 Wilkes, 36, 304 York, 16, 21, 22, 269

Celebration, July 4th, 215

Cestus, 369

Chart, notes for, 314

Channels, Kennedy and Robeson, 36

Channel pack, contest with, see ice; very large floes, no leads, 247

Channel, Robeson, 166

Christmas Day, 87

Cirro strata, 133

Clark, Chas., fireman, see personnel of the party under Expedition

Clark, with his Eskimos, 148, 149

Clements Markham Inlet, trip into, 63, 178 condition while crossing, 232

Cliffs, Disco, visible 95 miles away, 19

Clouds, inky, 220

Coast, between Wrangel and Lincoln Bays, 249

Colgate, Jas. C., 290, 356

Columbia, 181 twin peaks of, its ascent begun, 182

Commander Peary’s reply to President Roosevelt, ix

Conger, 335

Copies of records from cairns, 286

Cosmic boundaries, xi

Cracks, closing of, 125

Crew and firemen, see personnel of the party under Expedition

Crossed second glacier, see Ice

Crozier Island, 340

Cumberland Sound, 270

Darling, Judge, Asst. Secy. of the Navy, 11, 356

Daylight, disappearing, 302

Deer, track in the snow, 204 development of dew claws, length of hoofs, 205 numerous in Western Land, 205–8 skins, 227

Delta, Boat Camp, 43

Diet, preserved eggs and mush, 206

Dennis and Mike, 12

Disk, sun’s, 55

401Diana, S.S., despatched to Etah, 315, 316

Distant Cape, 250

Discovery, S.S., 363

Dix, Capt., builder of the Roosevelt, 68 Capt. Chas. B., 280, 356

Dogs, deaths of, 79 killed, 132 the gray, 155 number of survivors, 174 their diet changed from pemmican, 205 maimed from ice, 227 the white, 229 twelve left, 309 heard from the shore, 17 additional number purchased, 29 food, sent to Cape Sabine, 317

Dobbin Bay, 298

Dory, sent to Cape Louis Napoleon, 310

Drift Point, 322

Domino Run, 16 lying to, letters left, length of stay—fall of the fog, 17

Dome Cape, 325

Eagle, S.S., used in Arctic exploration of 1886, 6

Ellesmere Land, 314

Episodes, 36

Erik, S.S., 287, 289, 335 getting aboard, 22 alongside the Roosevelt, 29 her arrival at Etah, 29 Harbour, 336

Ermack, Russian S.S., 362

Eskimo dog, x

Eskimo, settlement, village, 21 families, 93 natives taken on board, 25 dogs and supplies held in readiness, 26 busy at work, 29 prosperity of natives, 30 hunting party sent out, 46, 49 parties sent out for musk-oxen, return from Black Cliffs Bay, making sledges, 56 settlements in the interior, 77 their excitement, 88 most northerly born babe, 93 sent to form cache, 102

Eskimos, report of rafted ice, 102 as trailers, 140–1 their temperament, 146 at their meal of musk-oxen, 161 sent into Cape Bryant region, 163 dismissed until homeward voyage, 173 sent overland for skins, 253 physical characteristics, 375 return of, 320, 312, 299 their origin, their inquisitiveness, 375 as imitators, 376 their training, their vocabulary, 379 significance to them of celestial bodies, 380 gauges for time and location, 380 sense of humour, 381 their ingenuity in ornamentation, 381, 382 staple food of, ideas of cleanliness, 386 402matrimonial arrangement, as regards morals, 387 their death ceremony, 388 their amusements, 389 their religious beliefs, 389 how useful to the world, 390

Etah, rendezvous at, 297, 315

Expedition, its objective point, opening scenes of the voyage, starting point, Polaris, 4 the ship, its decks, its quarters, regrets at leaving, 4 personnel of the party, 4–9 notice to members, 9 environment of, 9–11 time of starting, 11 course after leaving Domino Run, 17 southern sub-base, 34–35 preparation for wintering, 59, 60, 61 quartered at Hecla, subsistence, 98 arrival at Etah, 259 United States Lady Franklin Bay records, 312 return to New York, results of, 280, 281 Lady Franklin Bay, 286, 288

Explorer, the true, ix

Fielden Peninsula, 177, 339

Fire, 15

Flags, 135

Flipper, square, 250

Floes, velocity of, see Ice heavy floes in rapid motion, see Ice big blue, see Ice blue-topped, see Ice blue hummock kind, see Ice 8–10 miles diameter, 258 driven ashore, see Ice

Floeberg, 20 to 28 feet above the water, see Ice and paleocrystic ice, origin of, 333 birthplace of, 326

Flowers at Cape Aldrich, 231 in bloom, 211

Fog, 203, 219, dense, 17, 19, 199, 201 feeling way through the straits, 16 on uplands of peninsula, 301 extinguishes trail, 215

“Fog eater,” fog bow, 200

Fort Conger, 36 door of, 307 site of, 40

Fragments of floes, see Ice

Fram, S.S., 362, 363

Fossils in the rocks, 234

Foulke Fiord, mouth of, 297

Fox, Danish steamship, 22

Gale, October 16th, 63

Game score, 62 secured, 314

Gateway, American, 50

Gauss, S.S., 362, 363

Getting ready for rough water, 269

Gifford Peak, 232

Glacier, character of glacial fringe, 189 Tossuketek, 20 403Heilprin, 25 Melville, 25 Petowik, 22 Tracy, 26 Snout, see Ice composed of hummock ice, 228

Glaciers at head of Sawyer Bay, view from, see Ice true characteristics, see Ice Disco Bay, see Ice

Glacial fringe, 181 interesting to glacialists, 240 surface of, 191 clay, 200

Gravel, appearance of, 204 reached, 215

Gray dog, 227

“Great day,” in border land of, 18

“Great Ice,” see Ice

“Great Night,” 17 preparation for, 305

Greely party (1883), 6

Godhavn, Capital of Northern Inspectorate of Greenland; under Cliffs of Disco, 20

“Grand Canal,” 345

Granite erratic at Cape Aldrich, 231

Grant Land, 63 coast of 190, western shore, 202

Greenland, 16 Mts., snow-clad summit, 147 shore of, trip given up, 311 caribou, 351

Grinnell Land, coast of, 299 shore of unbroken ice, 36

Guillemot, Brunnich’s, flying south, 18 in the water, 19

Gull, skua, 187, 195 Burgomaster, 196

Hall Basin, western portion packed with ice, 39

Hamilton Fish Peak, 234

Harbour, Battle, 16 outside of, 12 Discovery, 250, 307; winter quarters of Discovery, 40 Payer, 337 Repulse, 43, 165 Thank God, winter quarters of Hall’s Polaris, 40

Hayes, 4 Point, 35, 334 halt south of, 319

Hecla, 178

Hebron, Labrador coast, 271

Henson, Matthew, personal attendant of Com. Peary, see personnel of the party, under Expedition beside closed lead, 131 departure from Cape Hecla, 98 Henson’s farthest, 302 his report, 311 sent to Etah, 313 and Capt. Bartlett, their records, 112

Herbert and Northumberland Islands, 266

Highways, beyond the world’s, 18

Holsteinburg, 19

Hope, 296 ship used in Arctic exploration in 1898, 6 Sanderson’s, named by John Davis, 21

404Hopedale, 272

Hospital, Bellevue, 6 St. Vincent’s, 6

Hudson Bay, 4 River, 119, 120, 125, 127 Strait, chop sea, 271

Housing of the personnel, 369

Ice, a chaos, 142 active glacier west of Cape Fanshawe Martin, 226 against the coast at Domino Run, 17 along the Grinnell coast, 43 ancient ice encountered, 34 appearance of glacier, 188 berg-like pieces, 131 big hummock, 166 blue-topped floe-bergs, 326 camp floe, 123 channel pack, 39 character of, 133 commotion continuous, 93 completely flooded, 210 contest with channel pack, 44 crossed second glacier, 326 culmination of its movement, 74 Disco Bay glaciers, 19 East Coast, 19 edge of ice-foot chopped away, 55 features of the glacial fringe, 181 field of beautiful icebergs, 16 first appearance of bergs, 16 fleet of bergs, 20 “floeberg,” 20 to 28 ft. above water, 226 floes, blue hummock kind encountered in March, 124 floe driven ashore, 307 one hundred feet in height, 331 glacial fringe, characteristic of, 189 glaciers at head of Buchanan Bay, 300 glacier at head of Sawyer Bay, 314 glaciers, two, true characteristics, 191 “Great Ice,” 26 heavy floes in rapid motion, 49 heavy pack, 35 Heilprin glacier, 25 homogeneous ice, 109 cap, 129 foot, north of Cape Union, 167 foot, 39, 301 in Nansen’s Strait, 203 its aspect along Grinnell Land, 36 its aspect, young ice, 117 its aspect, 123, 220 its condition, 342 its horrible conglomeration, 146 its separation from the ice-foot, 88 journey in darkness, 307 large floes, 34, 297 large fields moving southward, 36 loose, 265 Melville glacier, 25 middle pack, 270 narrow shaves from icebergs, 17 405north of Cape Washington, 326 off Cape Albert, 297 old floes passed, 131 pack surging down Smith Sound, 33 peculiar formations of, 187 Petowik glacier, 22 Polar pack, 101 pressed harder with the flood-tide, 55 rough, 301 rubble, 117 rubble ice as nets, 124 rubble ice half congealed, 143 sea ice, 187, 301 shifting, 47 small berg, 18 solid edge of, 265 surging of the pack, 93 thickness of young ice, 298 through rafters and rubble, 124 Tossuketek glacier, 20 Tracy glacier, 26 trail over young ice, 102 trash ice, 63 traversed in March, 201 traversed fragments of old floes, 327 trouble with, 36 twenty-seven bergs in 68° Lat., 19 two bergs, 18 two big blue floes, 44 velocity of floes, 47 ice window (in igloo), 105 winter’s ice still intact, 40 young ice across the lead, 144 young ice, 265, 266 (formed), 298

Ice-bergs, see Narrow shaves from, under Ice; also see Field of, under Ice ice boats, 359 ice-cap, 129 ice-foot, 39, 301 edge of, 55

Ice-foot, 306, 320, 340, 341 Alpine in character, 303 a broad deep lake, 239 a trail along, 322 found by Egerton, Rawson and Parry, 339 hewing road along, 322 reaching from (reaching low-sloping “spit”), 224

Igloos, 303, 319, 382 abreast of Cape Albert, 337 at Hecla, 101 built of floe, 105 building of, 125 “Christmas,” 36 Henson’s, 123 first, 102 Henson’s igloo shattered, 125 snow, 306

Igludiahni, 29

Inaloo, 384

Independence Bay, 161

Inlet, Clements Markham, 56

Intermediate Point, difficulties encountered, 214

Inueto, 101

Island, Bache, 299 Beaumont, 154 Bellot, 307 Britannia, 150 Crozier, 39, 233 Duck, (whaler’s lookout on summit), 21 Eagle, 6 Ellison, 150 406Franklin, 39 Hare, 20 Harvard, 26 Herbert, 26 Josephine Peary, 26 Joe, 39 Littleton, 33 Meteorite (Eskimo taken aboard), 21, 22 Norman Lockyer, 298 Red, (passed afternoon of second day out), 15 Saunders (bird cliffs), 25 Stephenson, 161 Sukkertoppen, 19 Ward Hunt, 184 Williams, 174, 235

Ittibloo, 25

Jesup, Morris K., 288, 355 Founder of the Expedition, 11 President of the Peary Arctic Club, 282

Jesup Land, 189 attainment of, 203

Journey, down Baffin’s Bay, 270

July 30th, reached the S.S. Roosevelt, 240

Kamiks, 240, 308

Kangerdlooksoah, 25, 317 deep pastures of, 26

Kane Basin filled with Polar pack, 297

Karnah, 29 six tents located here, 25

Kayak, 388

Kennedy Channel, 306

Kittiwakes, 19

Kolguev, 208

Kookan, landing of Eskimos, 265

Kooletah (deerskin coat), 154

Koolootingwah and Ooblooyah sent to reconnoitre, 196

Kyo, Anangabok (medicine man), 383 with hunting party, 383

Labrador, on the coast of, 16

Lake, a deep blue, 223 Hazen, 56

Lamps, in commission, 63

Large floe, see Ice

Latitude from noon sights, 19, 21 reached, 134

Lead, 126, 343 across Robeson Channel, 40 crossed on young ice, 145 eleven, 131 fifty feet wide, 132 its closing (the “Hudson River”), 118 its extent, 97 young ice cut by, 146

Leaving last camp, 211, 212

Lemming burrows, 199 fauna of Jesup Land, 210

Library, 9

Lieber, Cape, 320

Lincoln Bay, 334

Line of demarcation, 225

Lockwood’s record, 330

Malone, Murtaugh J., asst. engineer, see personnel of the party under Expedition, 5

Mary Murray Island, 325

Marvin, Ross G., secy. and asst., see personnel of the party under Expedition, 6

407Marvin, 62, 78, 97, 173 his report of musk-oxen, 93 his return with the Eskimos, 93 his report of the Roosevelt, 235 his westward compass, 236

March, distance covered, 200 from S. W. Camp, 213, 214 plan of, 153 the first, 131 the last outward, 139

Mascart Inlet, 148

Medical College (Cornell University), 6

Meigs Fiord, 325

Melville Bay, 4, 362

Moons (winter), duration, 77

Moraine material, camp on, 219

Mount, Camel, 178 Cheops, 63 Daly (red-brown bluffs of), 26 Saddle, 178 Streaked, 178 Twin, 178 Wistar, 328

Mountains, Greenland, 19

Musk-oxen, 35, 60, 142, 181, 300 cows, 182 killing of, 154, 333 tracks in the snow, 204 twenty-one killed, 320

Murphy, John, boatswain, see personnel of the party under Expedition, 5

Mystery of the North, xi

Nain, 272

Nansen, 126 Nansen’s Strait, 202

Nordenskjold Inlet, 324

Nares Land, 150

Narksami, 266

Narwhal, 250 school of, 43

National Geographic Society, vii Hubbard Medal of, vii

Natives, property of, see Eskimos report of Melville Bay, 269 taken on board, see Eskimos

Navy Department, leave of absence granted Com. Peary, 295

Neptune, Canadian Government Steamer, 4

Newfoundland, ice, pilots, 5

Newman Bay, 321

New land, 195

Nicaragua, 6

North Coast Mts., 330

North Pole, value of attainment, x

Norwegians, 359 and Americans, 360

Nungwoodie, the gray dog, 228

Observatory Pinnacle, 118

Observation Camp, 214 with sextant and transit, 117

Old floes, see ice

Omens, of the ship’s position, 74

Onkilon, Siberian tribe, 375

Ooming-muksue (musk-oxen), 154

Oomunui, 266

Oatah, 141

Open leads, region of, 132

408Open water, 92, 331, 342 see “big lead,” 143 alongside of the ice-foot, 181 in shape of leads and lakes, 74 its extent, 97

Orography of the glacial fringe, 231

Outward track, impracticable, 210

“Paleocrystic” floes, 228

Panama, Stars and Stripes planted, xi

Panikpah, 145

Panther, 4

Payer Harbour, 335, 337

Pemmican, 78, 186 supply exhausted, 227

Peninsula, Bache, 34

Percy, Chas., steward, see personnel of the party under Expedition

Peary Arctic Club, ix, 282 contributors to, 290 founders of, 288 history of, 285 incorporators of, 289 its officers, 286 its charter, 288 object of, 285 organisation of, 286

Personnel of the party on return, 276, 279

Petersen, Danish interpreter, 55

Piblocto, 384

Plan accomplished, 182

Point Armour Light, 16

Point Moss, 178 20 miles west of Cape Hecla, 97

Polar, ocean, x middle pack, 20 Polar pack, 331, 340 contest with, 341, 342 gateway to the Polar sea, 63 mystery, ix, 17 Sea, 4, 102, 332

Polaris, left by Hall’s party, 43 boat camp, 321

Poppies, at Cape Aldrich, 231

Potentilla, growing at Cape Aldrich, 231

Pot Rocks, coast of Labrador, 271

Pressure ridges, 129, 143

Primus stoves, 215

Programme, for spring work, 318

Ptarmigan, 196

Pumice and slag, 213

Rafters and rubble, see Ice, of Alpine character, 144

Rainbow Hill, 185

Rangifer Pearyi, 351 Grænlandicus, 351

Range, United States, 56, 63

Reconnoissance, along the ice-foot, 298 from Cape Frederick VIII, 249 for spring route, 62

Record, in cairn, 329 in North cairn, 329

Records, at Cape D’Urville, 318

Reindeer, found on Fielden Peninsula, 57

Report, to Peary Arctic Club, 295

River, Ruggles, 77 Shelter, south of Cape Union, 48

409Roosevelt, S.S., a crucial moment, 58, 59; arrival in New York, 289; as a sea boat, 280 a splendid ice-fighter, 45 at Etah, 29 beginning her fight with ice, 33 capacity, 11 channels navigated as far as Cape Sheridan, 50 construction and launching, 289 christened by Mrs. Peary, 370 departed from Etah, 260 desperate fight with the big floes, battle won by brute force, 44, 45 departure for North, 289 features of her model, 363 forced ashore by large floes, 47 forced ashore a second time, 48 forcing way through dense barrier of ice, 49 forced on to heavy floe, 250 furnishings of her rooms, 9, 10, 11 general construction, 366–369 goes direct to Etah, 25 heading for Thank God Harbour, 249 headed for Cape Isabella, 265 held up by the ice, 249, 257 her decks on leaving North Sydney, 11 her cargo, 11 her cargo on leaving Etah, 30 her detour to the east, 34 her struggle with the ice north of C. Lupton, 40 her crucial time, 247 her moorings, 275 impending peril, 91 imprisoned among heavy floes, 257 official measurements, 370 on board after backward journey, 167, 168 propeller loose, 258 race with incoming pack, 50 readings of the log, 15 ready for fight with Arctic Sea, 30 repaired at Etah, 260 restowed her supplies, 30 return to Sydney, 276 severing connection with the civilised world, 33 sight at Cape Rawson, 167 size, 361 special features of, 370, 372 travelling under difficulties, 248

Roosevelt, President, etching of, 11

Ross Bay, 335

Routes, two feasible, 306

Rubble ice, see Ice

Sabine, Cape, 5

St. George, Cape, 15 fiord, 162

St. Mary’s school ship, 6

St. Paul’s Light, 12

Sandpiper, 187, 189

Saunders Island, 266

Scotch, 359

Scotchmen, 360

410Sea, 18 East Greenland, 148 ice, 203 attempt to sledge over, 298

Seal, 133, 189 near ice-foot, 215 seen on ice, 228 six, 259

September 5th, a memorable day, 49

Sextant, 286

Shelter River, mooring of the Roosevelt, 236

Sheridan Point, 57

Sherard Osborn fiord, 162

Ship, for Arctic and Antarctic navigation, 359 held by ice, 249 motion of, 19

Sinnipahs, 382

Sipsu, 125 dog killed, 230

Sipsu and his wife, 248

Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 375

Sledges, carried on backs of the party, 304 repaired and strengthened, 125, 207, 305, 318 journey for spring, 77, 78

Smith Sound, 260, 364

Snow, 47, 178, 181, 188, 269, 299 blindness, 140 bunting, 199 snowshoeing, 185, 186, 203, 208 snowy owl, 199

Society, Seamen’s Friend, 9

Sound, Whale, 25 Wolstenholm, 25

Soundings, 259, 265

“Spits,” 188

Spring, campaign, 299

Squalls, 207

Steamers, two, 16

Storm Camp, 130, 140

Stoves, 62

Strait, Cabot, 12 Davis, 16

Streams, two negotiated, 228

Summits, snow-clad of distant land, 207

Sun, 63, 109

Sverdrup’s “farthest,” 174

Sverdrup, 210

Swells, rolling, 185

Sydney, 20

Talus, 178

Temperature, 112, 220, 298, 299, 304, 309, 322

Tidal crack, 214

Tides, 125

Tigress, 4

Thermometer, 112

Trail, 123

Transit, 208

Tree, 148

Trevor-Battye, 208

Tumulus, 220

Tupiks, 382

Twilight, 93 arc, 101

Twin Peaks of Columbia, 230

Very River, 333

Victoria Head, 34

Victoria Inlet, 154

View, from Lookout Hill, from bluffs, 211 of peaks from Cape Alfred Ernest, 224 from Cape Hawkes, 298

View Point, 177, 234, 339

411Waigatt, 20

Walrus, first appearance of, 20 grounds, 26 out to the grounds, 29 number secured, 265, 266 in Buchanan Bay region, 300

Wardwell, Geo. A., chief engineer, see personnel of the party under Expedition, 5 his report, 18

Water, 58

Water sky, 339

Water-smoke, 105

Weather, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 47, 48, 55, 56, 91, 98, 105, 106, 110, 114, 118, 123, 125, 126, 129, 132, 139, 141, 183, 192, 195, 201, 209, 215, 219, 223, 247, 257, 266, 305, 319, 322, 341, 342

Western trip, 174, 240

Whales (two), first appearance of, 20

Whale Sound glaciers, 189

Whaling Station, 275

Windward, S. S., 4, 35, 286, 296, 315, 316, 334, 349

Winds, 62, 91

Winter, 73, 74, 93, 299 Arctic, atmospheric conditions, 73

Wolfe, Dr. Louie J., surgeon, see personnel of the party under Expedition, 78, 97, 173

Work accomplished, 315, 317

Zone of high ridges of rubble ice, 343

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

P. 291, changed “°F” to “inches of Hg”.

Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.

Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.

Re-indexed footnotes using numbers.