INDEX. 



Adams, Captain, rescues the Polaris 

 crew, 37. 



Ah Sara goes on a hunting expedition, 

 156 ; does Tong Sing's work when 

 lie is sick, 1 58 ; has a fever, and his 

 work is taken by Tong Sing, 355 ; 

 flies kites, 526, 528; experience with 

 a bear, 536 ; his dead body found, 855. 



Air, precautions taken to secure fresh, 

 155, 470; measurement of, 471. 



Ajaket, 846. 



Alaska Commercial Company, 83 ; fur- 

 nishes supplies, 87. 



Alaska, U. S. Steamer, 76. 



Alcohol, value of, in warding off hun- 

 ger, 794. 



Ale, value of, in the Arctic, 325. 



Alert, U. S. Steamer, 76 ; carbonic acid 

 in, 131. 



Alexey, Indian hunter, engaged at St. 

 Michael's, 95, 96 ; his wife"~96 ; talks 

 with an old squaw at Cape Serdze 

 Kamen, 105; his views on dogs, 162 ; 

 has a tussle with a bear, 179 ; gives a 

 native dance, 204, 208; digs out ice 

 under the bow, 220; politeness of, 

 272 ; meets with an accident, 409 ; on 

 the sick list, 521 ; causes of anxiety, 

 631 ; kills reindeer in an hour of anx- 

 iety, 765 ; is baptized and dies, 797 ; 

 vain search for his body, 856. 



Alliance, U. S. S. sent in search of the 

 Jeannette, 864. 



Allison's Bay, 18, 20, 28. 



Ambler, James M., surgeon of the Jean- 

 nette, 64; his high qualities, 65; at 

 sea, 80; a Mark Tapley, 91 ; on a 

 bunting party, 94 ; experiments to de- 

 termine amount of carbonic acid in 

 sleeping quarters, 131 ; his curious 

 dream, 162 ; taken ill, 221 ; perforins 

 operation on Danenhower's eye, 227 ; 

 tests presence of salt in ice, 2*51 ; des- 

 cribes geological formation of Bennett 

 Island, 681 ; his dead body found, 

 855; and buried, 860; memorandum 

 by, on ice formed by sea water, 878; 

 remarks of, on snow crystals, 887. 



Aneguin, Indian hunter, engaged at St. 

 Michael's, 95 ; takes part in tableaux, 

 208 ; digs out ice under the bow, 220 ; 

 cleverness at learning English, and 

 politeness, 272 ; finds a house, 519; 

 serves out pie to the dogs, 543 ; dies 

 of small pox, 861. 



Arctic day, a perfect, 334. 



Arctic fox caught, 237, 238; another, 

 after much tribulation, 478. 



Arctic scenery, 213; beauty of, 358, 

 457 ; a night scene, 472, 474. 



Arctic vessel, memoranda of design for 

 construction of, 880. 



Arrhu, 830. 



Articles of War, read monthly, 484. 



Auroral displays, 189, 197;" less fre- 

 quent with the lengthening days, 270; 

 description by Mr. Collins, 287 ; re- 

 appearance of, at end of summer, 

 439; brilliant colors, 449, 479; de- 

 scription of, by Lieut. Chipp, 497. 



Baffin Islands, 17. 



Bailey, Captain, experience of, with re- 

 gard to ice north of Behring Strait, 

 362. 



Baird, S. F., 66, 67. 



Ballorh, one of the huts in which Capt. 

 De Loug had left records, 841, 842. 



Balloons, the use of in Polar exploration, 

 49 ; best manner of repairing them, 

 871. 



Barencap, 741. 



Barkis, the point aimed at on the Lena 

 Delta, 829. 



Barometric action, 488. 



Bartlett, J. H., fireman, sent by Lieut. 

 Danenhower with dispatches to Mr. 

 Melville, 837 ; left in charge at Bu- 

 lun, 838 ; retained by Mr. Melville 

 to assist in search, 847 ; engages in 

 the search, 851 ; searches for Lieut. 

 Chip]), 861 ; returns to Yakutsk, 863 ; 

 and to the United States, 863. 



Baxter boiler, used with the auxiliary 

 pump, 222 ; connected with the bilge- 

 pump, 224, 226 ; its good work, 230 ; 



