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INDEX. 



with a bear, 426 ; speech to his men, 

 New Year's eve, 499 ; knocked down 

 by the windmill, 563 ; orders the ship 

 to be abandoned, 574 ; alarm at dis- 

 covering the northing made on the 

 march, 606 ; confides his knowledge 

 only to Mr. Melville and Dr. Ambler/ 

 611 ; reflections upon Fourth of July, 

 623 ; has a narrow escape from drown- 

 ing, 649 ; leaves record on Bennett 

 Island, 689 ; miserable for want of a 

 smoke, 719; instructions to Lieut. 

 Chipp, 731 ; suffering in his feet, 738; 

 leaves record on Semenovski Island, 

 747 ; is separated from other boats, 

 749 ; lauds on Lena Delta, 753 ; 

 leaves record on shore, 756; begins 

 march, 757 ; is cheered by a passage 

 in the gospel, 758 ; proposes to send 

 a relief party forward, 764 ; attempts 

 a raft, 768 ; his trust in God, 772 ; 

 perplexed over the situation, 774 ; his 

 distress over Ericksen's misfortune, 

 778; leaves record in hut, 782; reads 

 prayers over the dying Ericksen, 788 ; 

 sends Nindemann and Noros forward 

 for help, 795 ; his last record, 800; 

 finding of his body, 855; burial, 860; 

 removal of remains, 864 ; finding of 

 the court of inquiry upon his com- 

 mand, 868 ; his character, 869. 



De Long. Mrs. Georue W., accompanies 

 her husband in the voyage through 

 Magellan Straits, 52 ; letters to, from 

 G. W. De L., 77, 82, 88, 96 ; health 

 drunk at Christmas, 203. 



De Long, Sylvie, 52 ; health drunk at 

 Christmas, 203 : i:ives name to flag 

 on her father's sled, 584. 



Devil's Thumb, 18, 27, 28. 



Diomede Islands, 99. 



Discipline, first ease of, 641. 



Discovery, carbonic acid in, 131, 132. 



Distilling, difficulties of, 192. 



Dodge, Henry \Y., pilot on the Little 

 Juniata,14; his services, 19, 21, 35. 



Dogs, the forty, 98 ; turned out on the 

 ice for exercise, 121 ; the difficulty of 

 keeping them on shipboard, 177; 

 their instinct for danger, 193 ; sick- 

 ness and death among, 205, 206 ; 

 trouble with their food, 254 ; effect 

 on the dogs, 255 ; names of, 293 ; 

 driving a team of, 310; watch kept 

 by them over the walrus meat, 319; 

 taking comfort, 329; their fondness 

 for fighting, 343 ; their treatment of 

 eaeli other, 344 ; their cunning, 345; 

 indifference to their surroundings, 

 387 ; punishment of the hoodlum 

 gang, 401 ; scarcity of food for, 

 453; influence of the hoodlums upon 



the others, 460 ; Esquimaux treat- 

 ment of, 487 ; their diet in the win- 

 ter, 515; Dan and his tape-worm, 

 516; treatment when injured, 529; 

 short commons for, 542 ; pie served 

 out to them, 543 ; taken with fits, 

 642 ; ten of them shot, 691 ; others 

 shot or lost, 698, 699; Kasmatka 

 shot, 714; the last one shot for food, 

 787. 



Drift, difficulty in accounting for, 134; 

 record of, 283 ; explanation of, 369. 



Drift-wood from Siberia, 275. 



D neks, 333. 



Duck Island, 17, 27. 



Dunbar, William, ice-pilot of the Jean- 

 nette, 66; watch-officer, 77 ; his qual- 

 ities, 81 ; on a hunting party, 94 ; his 

 estimate of distances, 160; his pre- 

 vious experience, 199 ; depression in 

 sickness, 202; kills a bear, 2.39; re- 

 gaining strength, 308 ; observation of 

 an ice phenomenon, 309 ; his estimate 

 of distance put to the test, 332 ; the 

 first to suffer from snow-blindness, 

 336; is snow-blind again when going 

 to Henrietta Island, 564 ; sent for- 

 ward to get a better view of Bennett 

 Island, 645 ; his perplexity in making 

 out the land, 653 ; sent to explore 

 south side of Bennett Island, 682 ; his 

 report, 685 ; his fainting spells, 741. 



Edison's generator, 154. 



Electric machine, worthlessness of, 163. 



Electric phenomenon, 135. 



Emma, Cape, Bennett Island, 679. 



Ericksen lies down and desires to be left, 

 758; has his foot amputated, 777; is 

 delirious, 787 ; prayers are read for 

 him, 788; dies, 790; is buried, 791; 

 finding of epitaph board, 860. 



Exercise in cold weather, 262 ; its con- 

 nection with ventilation, 481. 



Faddejew (Thaddeus) Island, 720; 

 Hut, 725. 



Flute, a, for the Arctic vovage, 70. 



Fonvielle, Wilfrid de, aeronaut, 50 ; 

 opinion of, as to the best manner of 

 preparing balloons for use in the po- 

 lar regions, 871. 



Food, tables of, 137-144; character of, 

 322, 385. 



Forecastle, dryness of, 1-J9. 



Franklin, Sir John, Dr. Ambler's dream 

 of, 162. 



Freezing, depth of, 292. 



Fuel, economy of, 306. 



Geeomovialocke, the place where the 

 whaleboat party was detained, 832. 



