INDEX. 



377 



SNO 



Snow, iridescent colours of, i. 356 



— on the uplands, i. 273 



— red, i. 16, 43 



— space beneath, i. 225 



Snow-blindness amongst the tra- 

 vellers, i. 298, 302, 352-360, 373 ; 

 ii. 14,27,96 



Snow-buntings, i. 16, 29, 115, 

 317-329, 339, 347, 386; ii. 26, 

 32, 33, 209 



Snow-buntings, pleasure of hearing 

 first notes of, i. 115 



Snow-crystals, i. 205 



Snow-dust, i. 221 



Snow-houses, i. 177 



Snow-house Point, i. 155 



Snow Point, ii. 107 



— Valley, i. 354, 389 

 Snowy-owls, i. 121, 278, 324; ii. 



67, 208 

 Somateria mollissima, i. 20 ; ii. 

 352, 353 



— spectabilis, i. 20 ; ii. 352, 353 

 Sounding for land at the farthest 



point reached, ii. 31 



Specific gravity of sea-water, i. 

 376 ; ii. 158, 164, 184 



Spitsbergen, i. 9, 79, 155 ; ii. 141, 

 301 



Sponges, ii. 156, 293 



Spongida — Kesults of the Expe- 

 dition, ii. 293 



Spoons, horn and metal, i. 299 



Spring travelling, i. 253 



Spruce, Norway, ii. 335 



Stalknecht Island, i. 59 



Starfish, i. 110 



Stars, i. 196, 199, 207, 222, 232, 

 236, 263 



Stellaria, ii. 193 



Stephenson, Captain, i. 41, 53, 56, 

 59, 70-75, 80, 86, 94, 103, 116, 

 153, 174, 200, 233, 255, 256, 284, 

 303, 308-312, 332-339 ; ii. 68, 82, 

 83, 126, 131, 143, 145, 161, 170, 

 185 



Stephenson Land, ii. 105 



Sterna macrura, i. 117 ; ii. 4, 207 



Stomatopoda, ii. 243 



Stones, circles of, ii. 189 



Storm-petrels, i. 4 



Strepsilas interpres, i. 115, 329 ; ii. 

 207 



Stubbs, ii. 34-38 



Stuckberry, i. 323 



TRI 



I Sun at midnight, i. 13, 35, 88, 297 



— number of days' absence of, i. 

 223 



— parhelion on each side of, i. 265, 

 301 



— power of, in Polar regions, ii. 7 

 Sunrise Point, i. 50, 51 

 Supplies, storage of, i. 21 

 Sutherland Island, i. 48, 49 

 Svarte Vogel Bay, i. 24 

 Svarten Huk, i. 27, 29 



Syllidje, ii. 258 



TAENIA, ii. 193, 194 

 < Tegetthoff,' the, i. 62, 250, 

 395 

 Temperature of sea- water, i. 7, 8, 18, 

 72, 240, 320; ii. 158, 164, 180, 

 184 



— low, first experience of, i. 134 



— of the earth, arrangements for 

 registering, i. 140 



— unusual rise of, i. 202 



— at different heights from the 

 floe, i. 242 



— of the ship in winter, i. 250 



— mean, of Feb. 1876, i. 262 



— of water beneath the ice, i. 376 

 Terebellidfe, ii. 258 



Terns, i. 85, 117 ; ii. 4, 213 



Terraces, formation of, ii. 342 



1 Terror,' the, i. 124 



Tertiary rocks, ii. 333 



Thank God Harbour, i. 262, 284, 338 



Thaw, commencement of, ii. 8, 52, 



67,80 

 Theatrical performances, i. 195, 209, 



211, 231 

 Thermometers, affected by ice, i. 



240 



— difficulty of comparing, i. 264 



— spirit, comparison of, i. 241 

 Thornback, ii. 3, 43 



Three Sisters Island, i. 67, 69 

 Tidal observations, i. 119 ; ii. 356 



— registers, i. 218 

 Tidal-cracks in the ice, ii. 52 

 Tidal-wave under ice, pulsation in, 



ii. 53 

 Tobacco-pipes, freezing of, i. 224 

 Torske Band, i. 11, 13 

 Tossukatek Glacier, i. 24 

 Transit instruments, fixing, i. 184 

 Trichecus rosmarus, ii. 352 



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