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INDEX 



Hudson, Henry, 2. 



Hudson, W. H., photographer, 99. 



Hudson's Bay Company, expansion of, 



along Arctic coast, 389-390. 

 Hunger, remarks on death from, 193 ; 



relation between irregularity of meals 



and, 457. 

 Hunting, method of, in Banks Island, 



280-281 ; dogs used by Eskimos for, 



420-421. 



Ice, popular misconception concerning, in 

 arctic regions, 11-12; freshening of sea, 

 31-32, 166 ; description of moving sea, 

 145-146; action of, 146-147; winter 

 camps on, 147 ; lack of salt in sea, after 

 weathering, 166; telling the age of, 171- 

 172 ; presence of seals dependent on 

 mobihty of, 183-184 ; depth of, suitable 

 for safe travel, 295, 298; paleocrystic, 

 defined, 351 ; "needle," 352; action of, 

 on shores, 509-510. 



Ice deserts in the Arctic, 613, 735-736. 



Iceland, effect of Gulf Stream on climate 

 .of, 9. 



Ice movement off northern Alaska, 188. 



Ice shoeing for sleds, 601. 



Ikkayak, Eskimo woman, 441. 



Illun, Herschel Island Eskimo, 393, 400, 

 431 ; revelation of Eskimo beliefs by, 

 409-415. 



Indians, tactics of, in hunting caribou, 229- 

 230 ; Mackenzie River, 432. 



"Ingoldsby Legends," as a traveling 

 companion, 464-465. 



Ingutok whales, question of species, 416. 



Insanity among Eskimos, 466. 



Insects in arctic regions, 15, 18. See 

 Mosquitoes. 



Instincts, unreliability of, 188. 



Inuksuit, use of, in caribou hunting, 401- 

 402. 



Inuksuk, "likeness of a man," 402. 



Investigator, McClure's ship, a treasure 

 house to Eskimos, 240-241, 360-363; 

 abandonment of, at Mercy Bay, 359- 

 360 ; remaining traces of, 362. 



Ireland's Eye, island so called by McClin- 

 tock, 325 ; question of location of, 325- 

 326. 



Isachsen, Cape, 498 ; arrival at (May, 

 1916), 503 ; error in original location of, 

 506-507 ; correction in location of, 618. 



Itkilik River, 55. 



Jadite, tools and ornaments of, 38. 

 Jags River, derivation of name, 92 n. 



Japan Current, action of, 9. 



Jeannette, drift of the, 673. 



Jenness, Diamond, anthropologist, 51 ; 

 left at Cape Halkett to study Eskimos, 

 70, 79 ; success of, with Eskimo lan- 

 guage, 105 ; work accomplished by, 737, 

 750. 



Jochimsen, Captain, master of King and 

 Winge on voyage to rescue Karluk sur- 

 vivors, 726-730. 



Johansen, Frits, marine biologist, 111, 139, 

 140 ; attitude of, in CoUinson Point dif- 

 ficulty, 120 ; work done by, 738. ,^ 



John and Winthrop, whaling bark, 42. 



John Russell, Point, northeast corner of 

 Banks Island, 434 ; wrongly placed on 

 map, 632, 636 ; correct location of, 639. 



Jones, John, second engineer of Polar Bear, 

 395; death of, 483. 



Jones Islands, 57. 



Karluk, departure of, from Nome, 27; 

 encounters ice floe off Cape Smythe, 29 ; 

 experience in ice pack, 34, 41-43 ; 

 grounding of, 43-44 ; reasons for buying, 

 47 ; news of, received by author at Cape 

 Kellett, 270; news of, from Polar Bear 

 party at Cape Kellett, 375 ; books lost 

 on, 463-464 ; other items lost, 464 ; facts 

 proved by drift of, 673; Hadley's per- 

 sonal account of last voyage of, 703-721 ; 

 supplementary accounts of rescue of 

 survivors, 721-730. 



Kataktovik, Cape Smythe Eskimo, 36, 54. 



Kayaks, Nansen's, 207-208. 



Keenan Land, non-existence of, proved, 

 702. 



Kellett, explorer, depot left by, at Dealy 

 Island, 628-631. 



Kellett, Cape, 189 ; the Mary Sachs found 

 at, 266-267 ; start of ice expedition from 

 (1915), 293 ; return to (summer of 1915), 

 372; departure from (Sept. 3, 1915), 

 397 ; story of events at, during author's 

 absence in 1917, 646-662. 



Kerosene, advantages over seal oil as fuel, 

 163, 327, 597. 



Keruk, wife of Kurraluk, 36, 54. 



Kilian, Herman, engineer of Polar Bear, 

 374, 395 ; with Storkerson on survey of 

 Victoria Island coast, 408, 694. 



Kihan, Martin, 395, 435, 443 ; with autl.or 

 in trip of 1916, 474 ; support given 

 Storkerson by, in survey work, 657-658 ; 

 volunteers for drifting trip in Arctic 

 Ocean (1918), 695; meteorological rec- 

 ord kept by, 697. 



