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INDEX 



gard to Dr. Anderson and North Star, 

 446-447 ; winter base on North Star as 

 arranged by, 457-458 ; leaves expedition, 

 487-488; subsequent career, 488 n. ; 

 report from, on favorable conditions at 

 Polar Bear, 565 ; Prince Albert Sound 

 Eskimos photographed by, 566 ; studies 

 of Eskimo life and photographs made by, 

 745. 



Winter Harbor, depot of Captain Bemier 

 at, 576-578. 



Wittenberg, Leo, part owner of schooner 

 Challenge, 598 ; arrival at Cape Kellett 

 in autumn of 1917, 663 ; nurses author 

 during illness at Herschel Island, 679. 



Wolki, Fritz, owner of Rosie H., 387 n. ; a 

 believer in author's death, 388 ; schooner 

 Gladiator bought of, 394. 



Wolves, in arctic regions, 17 ; method of, 

 in hunting caribou, 227 ; action of cari- 

 bou herds when hunted by, 248-249 ; 

 eyesight of, 307 ; intelligence of, con- 

 trasted with lack of wisdom of foxes. 



333-334 ; example of sagacity of, 354 ; 



refusal of, to eat newly dead bear, 575 ; 



cannot kill ovibos, 575. 

 Women, Eskimo : use of tobacco by, 64 ; 



age of maturity of, 75-79 ; as seam- 

 stresses, 390-391 ; deaths among, from 



childbearing, 423. 

 Wood, distinction between hard and soft, 



as to usefulness, by Eskimos, 360-361. 

 Wrangel, Baron, lessons from journey of, 



130-131. 

 Wrangel Island, 189 ; rescue of Karluk 



party at, 721-730. 

 Wright, Orville, airplane plan of rescue 



discouraged by, 383. 

 Wynniatt, of McClure's expedition, 430; 



the farthest west of, 478. 



Yellow Knife Indians, characteristics of, 



78. 

 Young, Mr., missionary at Herschel Island, 



107. 

 Yukon River, Eskimo name for, 442. 



