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INDEX 



land, 496 ; discovery of Meighen Island, 

 517-524 ; start on southward journey, 

 524 ; through Hassel Sound, 525 ; find- 

 ing of MacMillan's record, 528-529 ; 

 discovery of real extent of King Chris- 

 tian Island, 532-536 ; discovery of 

 Lougheed Island, 540-542; summer on 

 Lougheed Island, 542-548; journey 

 across ice to Melville Island, 548-561 ; 

 meeting with friends and finding of 

 coal, 562-570; finding of Bernier's 

 depot at Winter Harbor, 576-578 ; win- 

 ter of 1916-17 spent in Melville Island, 

 594-597 ; northward exploration in 

 1917, 608; experiences with members 

 of party sick with scurvy, 614-619; 

 finding of Bernier's beacon and record 

 on Melville Island, 624-625; arrival 

 at Kellett's depot on Dealy Island, 628- 

 629 ; crossing of Melville Sound, 633 ; 

 arrival at Knight Harbor, 636 ; finding 

 of McClure's record near Knight Har- 

 bor, 637-638; journey across Banks 

 Island to Cape Kellett, 640-645; ac- 

 count of loss of Bernard and Thomsen, 

 646-654 ; story of events at Cape Kel- 

 lett and destruction of Mary Sachs, 

 655-662; arrival at Cape Kellett of 

 schooner Challenge, and her purchase, 

 663 ; overtaking of Polar Bear, 664-665 ; 

 arrival at Herschel Island (September, 

 1917), and voyage to Barter Island, 

 670-671 ; stranding of Polar Bear, 671- 

 672; exploring plans for 1917-18 in- 

 terrupted by illness with typhoid fever 

 and pneumonia at Herschel Island, 676- 

 681 ; journey of recovery to Fort 

 Yukon, 681-685 ; kindness of residents 

 of Fort Yukon during three months' 

 convalescence, 685-686 ; return to New 

 York and Toronto (autumn, 1919), 686 ; 

 outstanding results of expedition, 687 ; 

 paper on "Region of Maximum Inac- 

 cessibility in the Arctic," 731-736. 



Sten, Christian, attention called by, to 

 Eskimos of pecuUar type, 468. 



Stewart, Kenneth, Hudson's Bay trader, 

 676. 



Stokes Company, F. A., books contributed 

 by, 464. 



Storkerson, Martina, 270. 



Storkerson, Storker T., meeting with, 

 107-108; engaged for author's expe- 

 dition, 108 ; qualifications of, as mem- 

 ber of expedition, 112; support given 

 author by, 138; member of author's 

 final party on ice journey northward, 



163 ; map of Bernard Island made by, 

 235 ; author's expression of gratitude 

 to, and appreciation of, 236 ; unused 

 to loneliness, 258 ; chosen for winter ice 

 party of 1915, 294 ; discovery of new 

 land by, 327-330; ranking member of 

 Polar Bear party, 396 ; survey of north- 

 east coast of Victoria Island by, 404, 

 406, 407-408, 430-431, 478; ice trip 

 of, northwest from Gore Islands, 461, 

 462, 463, 477; children of, 470; ex- 

 perience in eating bear liver, 481 ; plans 

 made for, in spring of 1916, 492-494; 

 report from, received at Cape Murray, 

 565 ; good survey work done by, 567 ; 

 leaves for Cape Grassy, 590 ; misad- 

 ventures of, on Cape Grassy trip, 592- 

 593 ; treatment of, by Captain Gon- 

 zales, 657-658; survey of Victoria 

 Island coast nearly completed by, 658; 

 unofficial position of, on author's ships, 

 670 ; account by, from magazine article, 

 of six months of drifting in Beaufort 

 Sea, 689-703. 



Storkerson, Mrs. S. T., at Cape Kellett, 

 270; winter activities of, 291. 



Storkerson Bay, discovery and naming 

 of, 263. 



Stuck, Hudson, 470, 681 ; cited concern- 

 ing Eskimos, 432; "A Winter Circuit 

 of Our Arctic Coast" by, quoted, 581, 

 684-685; books of, 605; quoted on 

 "hardships" of the North, 606 ; meeting 

 with, on way to Fort Yukon, 684. 



Sugar, replacing of fat by, in diet, 232, 

 355-356, 652 ; distasteful to natives at 

 Victoria Island, 366; transfer of, from 

 North Star to Polar Bear, 461-462 ; tastes 

 of Polar Bear party in, 462 ; depots 

 of, abandoned, 473 ; finding of, left at 

 Kellett's depot in 1853, 629-630. 



Sugar sandwiches, 100. 



Summer heat in arctic regions, 15-16. 



Superstitions, so-called, of Eskimos, 89, 

 107, 409-415, 439-442; white men's, 

 concerning danger of going to sleep in 

 cold, when lost, 455-456. 



Sverdrup, Otto, estimate by, of snowfall 

 of Ellesmere Island, 13 ; quoted on 

 ovibos (musk-ox) , 238 ; explanation by, 

 of diseases of dogs, 427 ; game encoun- 

 tered by, 502 ; quoted on height of 

 pressure ridges, 514 ; mistake in map 

 of, showing Crown Prince Gustav Sea, 

 517 ; non-existence of King Christian 

 Land of map of, 535 ; change in atti- 

 tude of, toward the North, 572-573; 



