INDEX. 



907 



George, chief, 99 ; his report of Nor- 

 denskjold's expedition, 100. 



Gilder, Col. VV. H, 860. 



Glasgow, General, finds technical diffi- 

 culties in the way of G. VV. De L.'s 

 marriage, 10. 



Godhavn, 32. 



Goggles liable to frost, 266 ; made of 

 horse-hair, 269. 



Grant, General U. S., 52. 



Greeks as Arctic sailors, 47. 



Greenbaum, Mr., of the Alaska Com- 

 pany, and his liberality, 88. 



Greer, James A., 28. 



Gfinnell Henry, conversation of, with 

 G. W. De L.", 42. 



Gronbeck, Captain, joins in the search, 

 851. 



Guillemots, 340. 



Gulf stream affected by the ice, 373. 



Hall, Captain, 70. 



Hamilton, Frank, machinist on the Lit- 

 tle Juniata, 14. 

 Hand-pumping, 272 ; impracticability 



of for any length of time, 273 ; effect 

 of upon men, 307 ; slight amount re- 

 quired, 396, 446. 



Harber, Lieut. Giles B , sent out in 

 search of the Jeannette party, 848 ; 

 his operations, 863. 



Harrison, C. H., 76. 



Henrietta Island, first seen, 548; diffi- 

 culty of getting bearings of, 554 ; party 

 sent out to land on, 555 ; return of 

 party, 563 ; taken possession of, 564. 



Herald, New York, 53. 



Herald Island, first sighted, 114; land 

 beyond, 115; exploring party sent to, 

 123; its character, 125; gradually 

 disappearing, 127 ; almost out of sight, 

 134; reappearance of, 148; its doubt- 

 ful form, 153; again sighted, 174, 

 264 ; the point of departure in the log, 

 350. 



"Horpish," 100, 107, 108. 



Horse's Head, 17, 27. 



Huguenot descent of G. W. De L., 1. 



Hunt, Ensign, 862, 863. 



Hyde, Fanny A., the consort of the 

 Jeannette, 76 ; impatiently awaited 

 at St. Michael's, 90 ; arrival, 92 ; is 

 sent back from St. Lawrence Bay, 

 103, 104. 



Ice, movement of, 165, 166, 167, 168; 

 character of the sound of, 169, 170; 

 its awful appearance, 171, 172; anx- 

 iety caused by, 177; new movement 

 of, 196 ; formation of, 199 ; sounds 

 of, 209, 213, 214; excitement and 

 worry caused by, 215; severe pres- 



sure of upon the ship, 218 ; hardness 

 of, 282 ; floats deeper in winter than 

 in summer, 299 ; clearing of, from 

 tiller room, 315 ; from the captain's 

 cabin, 318 ; from the chart room, 324 ; 

 difficulty in travelling over, 349, 359; 

 sledging over with a load of bear's 

 meat, 362 ; waste of, 372 ; which way 

 does it go?, 373 ; conditions of thick- 

 ness, 398 ; measurements of thickness, 

 400; effect of fog on, 418; specula- 

 tions as to its outlet, 419 ; renewed 

 movement of, 473; hardness of , 508 ; 

 dreariness of ice scenery, 539; paleo- 

 crvstic, 614, 619; needle, 633. 



Indian summer, 445. 



Irwin, Governor, 76. 



Italians as Arctic sailors, 47. 



Iversen, Nelse, on the borders of insan- 

 ity, 374 ; improved condition of, 391. 



Jackson, J. P., special correspondent of 

 the New York Herald, 848 ; visits the 

 tomb of Capt. De Long, 862. 



Japan current, the, 48 ; supposed to 

 carry coral into the Arctic ocean, 

 148. 



Jeannette, the, formerly the Pandora, 

 48 ; made ready for sea, 51 ; the na- 

 ture of the repairs and strengthening 

 of, 60, 61 ; put in commission, 70 ; de- 

 parture from San Francisco, 76 ; ar- 

 rival at Ounalaska Island, 83 ; at St. 

 Michael's, 89 ; at St. Lawrence Bay, 

 97; at Cape Serdze Kamen, 106; 

 makes Herald Island, 114; jammed 

 in the ice, 119 ; made ready for win- 

 tering in the ice, 126; her steadiness 

 in the ice, 153; a beautiful spectacle 

 when covered with ice, 161 ; her peril 

 from grinding ice, 168; breaks adrift 

 from the floe, 180; moves through a 

 canal-like opening, 182; again closed 

 in, 184; appearance in the moonlight, 

 1 89 ; subjected to terrible pressure, 

 218; springs a leak, 219; one effect 

 of the pressure, 233 ; careful examina- 

 tion of, 428 ; on an even keel again 

 for a short time, 441 ; the ice opens 

 about her, leaving her free, 571 ; 

 again under pressure, 573 ; breaking 

 in two, 574; abandoned, 577; sinks, 

 578 ; finding of the court of inquiry 

 regarding, 868. 



Jeannette Island, first view of, 544 ; the 

 pleasure which it afforded, 545. 



Jensen the Dane, at Tessiussak, 16, 27, 

 28. 



Juniata, Little, cruise of, 15. 



Kaack, on the sick list, 422 ; his dis- 

 charge, 465 ; a new accident, 467. 



