402 



NEAREST THE POLE 



Eskimos, matrimonial arrange- 

 ment, 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, 9-1 1 

 time of starting, 11 

 course after leaving Dom- 

 ino Run, 17 

 southern sub-base, 34-35 

 preparation for wintering, 



59, 60, 61 

 quartered at Hecla, sub- 

 sistence, 98 

 arrival at Etah, 259 

 United States Lady 

 Franklin Bay records, 

 312 

 return to New York, re- 

 sults 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 



Floes, heavy floes in rapid mo- 

 tion, 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, ori- 

 gin 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 i6th, 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 



