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NEAREST THE POLE 



Open 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 per- 

 sonnel 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 re- 

 turn, 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 Peary i, 351 



Grasnlandicus, 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 



