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INDEX. 



SAB 



SABELL1TLE, ii. 259 

 Sagitta, ii. 259 

 Sail Harbour, ii. 37 

 Sailing-orders of the Expedition, i. 



p. xi. 

 Saint George's Fiord, ii. 98, 105 



— Patrick's Bay, i. 120; ii. 68, 130, 

 132, 136 



Harbour, i. 291, 292 



Salmo alipes, ii. 221 



— arcturus, i. 329 ; ii. 220 



— naresii, ii. 220-222 

 Salmon-fishing at Disco, ii. 182 

 Salmon-trout, species of, i. 20 

 Salt in sea-water ice, i. 168 

 Saltness of Polar floes, ii. 60 



Salt water, action of snow on, i. 137 

 Salt-water ice, melting-point of, i. 7 



— thickness of, i. 79 

 Sanderlings, i. 329 ; ii. 210 

 Sanderson's Hope, i. 31 



< Sastrugi,' i. 218, 222,232, 288, 307 ; 



ii. 15-22 

 Saxicavse, ii. 334 

 Saxicola asnanthe, i. 29 ; ii. 207 

 Saxifraga oppositifolia, i. 238 ; ii. 



207 

 Saxifrages, i. 17, 329 ; ii. 2, 21, 32, 



67, 78, 140, 193, 203-212, 302, 311 

 Scalibregmidas, ii. 258 

 School established for the crew, i. 



187 

 Scoresby on Spitsbergen ice, i. 79 



— Bay, i. 100, 101, 106 ; ii. 150 

 Scurvy amongst the crews, i. 256, 



284, 314, 318, 323, 324, 331, 344- 

 346, 373, 395 ; ii. 9, 22, 33, 34, 50, 

 81, 82, 85, 93, 103 



— amongst the Eskimo, ii. 183 



— committee for inquiring into 

 causes of, i. 256 ; ii. 86 



Sea,temperature and specific gravity 

 of, i. 7, 8, 72, 240, 320 ; ii. 158, 

 164, 180, 184 



— discoloration of, i. 11 



— green colour of, ii. 149 

 Sea-bed, raised, i. 247 

 Sea-bottom off Torske Bank, i. 13 

 Sea- water, analysis of, ii. 164 

 Seaweed, i. 19, 144 ; ii. 53, 54 

 Seals, i. 8, 40, 62, 71, 110, 137, 279 ; 



ii. 130, 152, 182, 188, 195, 352, 

 353 

 Seal-skins, supply of, for the tra- 

 vellers, i. 19, 226 



SNO 



Self, J., i. 314, 317 ; ii. 3, 44, 45 

 Semisuberites arctica, ii. 293 

 Sextants, effect of cold on quick- 

 silver of, i. 279 

 Shales, ii. 333 

 Shearwaters, i. 3, 4, 7 

 Shift Rudder Bay, i. 291, 292 

 Ships, fastening them to icebergs, 

 i. 26 



— galleys of, improvement in, i. 149 

 Shirley, J., i. 358-372, 394 

 Shortest day, i. 209 



Shortness of breath, complaints of, 



i. 236 

 Sickness of sledge-crew, i. 346. 



See Scurvy 

 Silurian limestones, ii. 329, 344 

 Simmonds' Island, ii. 45 

 Simmons, J., i. 150, 155, 249, 273, 



295, 296, 314 

 Simmons Island, i. 351 

 Simpson, i 384, 388 

 Skale Island, i. 28 

 Skua, the, i. 389 ; ii. 214 

 Sky, northern, colours of, i. 248 

 Sladen, Mr. W. Percy, on the 



Echinodermata collected by the 



Expedition, ii. 260 

 Sledge-crews, dietary of, i. 259 



— exercise of, i. 273 



— sickness amongst, i. 346 



— address to, i. 348 

 Sledge-driving, i. 82 

 Sledge-equipments, weight of, i. 



172 

 Sledges, carrying ice-boats on, i. 63 



— preparation of, i. 277 

 Sledging, i. 128, 151-173 ; ii. 46, 84 



— results of autumn journey by, i. 

 173 



Sleeping-bags, i. 351 



Smith, Herr Inspektor and Mrs. K., 

 i. 15, 17, 21 ; ii. 182 



Smith, Mr. E. A., on Mollusca col- 

 lected by the Expedition, ii. 

 223 



Smith Sound, i. 3, 21, 41-72, 80, 90, 

 128, 137, 227, 255, 278, 313 ; ii. 

 17, 151, 163-176, 296-310, 352 



North Pole unattainable by 



route of, i. 326 



— ■ — animals procured in, ii. 352 

 Snow, action of, on salt water, 137 



— decay of, i. 310 ; ii. 79 



— evaporation of, i. 225 



