INDEX 



Age of maturity among Eskimo women, 

 75-79. 



Airplanes, plan for rescuing author's partv 

 by, 383. 



Akeley, Carl, on eating habits of Africans, 

 356. 



Alarm clocks, usefulness of, in arctic work, 

 367. 



Alaska, schooner, 27; arrival of, at Col- 

 linson Point, 66 ; scientific information 

 gained by party on, 275; found at 

 Herschel Island, 388; author's books on, 

 463-464 ; reported on way home, 599. 



Alaska, theory of ice na\agation, 44-45; 

 successful following of, by Alaska and 

 Mary Sachs, 66. 



Alfred, Cape, 187, 190, 220; expedition 

 northwest from (1915), 294-299 ; Wil- 

 kins' base near, 447. 



Alingnak, Eskimo with author, 450, 458- 

 459. 



Allan, Alexander, captain of El Sueno, 

 392-393. 



AUanak, Minto Inlet Eskimo, 437-438. 



Alunak, Copper Eskimo, 422. 



Amauliktok, island of, 57; meaning of 

 word, 57. 



Amber-colored glasses for arctic work, 

 200-201. 



Ammunition, carried on northward ice 

 trip, 163 ; accident to author from de- 

 fective, 406-407 ; carried by author in 

 expeditionof 1916, 494. 



Amund Ringnes Island, landing on, 525. 



Amundsen, finding of Northwest Passage 

 by, 7 ; use of skis by, 164 ; snowhouse 

 building learned by men with, 176 n. ; 

 dogs bought by, and used by author, ISO. 



Anchors found at Mercy Bay, 362. 



Anderson, "Charlie," goes north with 

 author in 1916, 494-495; first seal shot 

 by, 512 ; discovery of Meighen Island 

 by, 518; suffers from snowblindness, 

 525-526 ; develops felon on hand, 567 ; 

 attacked by scurvy, 610-611. 



Ander::on, John, first officer of Karluk, 34; 

 ending of, 721. 



Anderson, Rudolph M., 27, 91 ; divergent 

 views of author and, on survey of Mac- 

 kenzie delta, 96-98; left in charge of 

 Collinson Point base, 98; stand taken 

 by, at Collinson Point, against author's 

 plans, 111-122; letter written to author 

 bj', and its subsequent history, 112-114; 

 author's instructions sent back to, by 

 support party, 157-160; reasons for 

 disobedience of author's orders by, 271- 

 272 ; failure of, to report author's in- 

 structions to Ottawa Government, 382 ; 

 reports of, give impression that no com- 

 munications could reach author in Banks 

 Island, 391 ; suppUes sent by author to 

 (1915), 392; account of surrendering of 

 North Star by, to Wilkins, 446-447 ; in 

 the Alaska, on way home, 599 ; summary 

 of work of southern section of expe- 

 dition, conducted by, 736-757. 



Andreasen, Martin, captain of North Star, 

 71, 101; theory of arctic navigation 

 practiced by, 101-103 ; attitude at time 

 of Collinson Point difficulty, 117; sup- 

 port given author by, 138 ; a believer in 

 sur\aval of author's party, 380 ; triumph 

 of, on author's arrival at Herschel Island, 

 388. 



Andreasen, Ole, volunteer with author's 

 advance party, 140 ; member of author's 

 final party on ice journey northward, 

 163 ; dread of meat diet by, 190 ; author's 

 expression of gratitude to and apprecia- 

 tion of, 236 ; lonesomeness unknown to, 

 250; and story of wolves on Banks 

 Island, 253-254; chosen for winter ice 

 party of 1915, 294; end of connection 

 with author's activities, 396; experience 

 in eating bear liver, 481 ; buys Gladiator 

 of Captain Lane, 599 ; in charge of trad- 

 ing post at Shingle Point, 675, 676. 



Angutitsiak, Point Hope Eskimo, 79. 



Animal life, in arctic regions, 17-19; 

 question concerning, in arctic waters, 

 132-136; on Melville Island, 344-345. 

 <See also Birds, 0\dbos, Seals, etc. 



Antarctic, comparison between Arctic and, 



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