INDEX 



467 



Scott, Captain, Expedition 



Permanent weights taken, 163 ; 

 outfit, 172 ; rations., 180 81, 

 183 ; records, 454 

 Scott -Keltie, Dr., 2, 3 

 Seagulls, 272 

 Seahorse Islands, 65 

 Sealing, 230, 271, 286, 31617 ; at 



Kevuleek, 375 

 Seattle, Danes in, 5 

 Sedge grass, use of, 177 

 Seward Peninsula, the trail to, 



38486 

 Shaktolik, 390 

 Sheerwater Bay, 28 

 Sheldon " musher," 383 

 Shoodlak, Eskimo boy, his diary, 



35657 



Shumagin Islands, 29 



" Skies," 166 



Sky, an Arctic, 131 33 



Sledge Expedition, the 



Rations for, 146 47 ; purchase 

 of dogs, 147 48 ; date of 

 starting, 148, 156 58 ; the 

 outfit, 153 ; equipment of the 

 sledges, 15960, 164 66 ; 

 permanent weights, 159 64 ; 

 means of crossing water, 166 

 67 ; the sledge dogs their 

 care and driving, 168 and 

 note 72 ; tent and camping 

 outfit, 172 74 ; moisture in 

 the sleeping bag means of 

 preventing it, 17475 5 cloth- 

 ing furs contrasted with 

 wool, 17578 ; instruments, 

 178 ; medical outfit, 179 ; 

 food, 179 ; comparison be- 

 tween the food of different 

 explorers, 180 82 ; malted 

 milk compared to pemmican 

 183 84 ; rations for the 

 sledge trip, 182 ; outfit taken, 

 184 87 ; the journey over 

 the pack ice ; 188 : 277 ; 

 rubble ice, 19295 ; forced to 

 return, 195 ; second start, 196 



97 ; considerations favour- 

 ing return, 25658; subse- 

 quent weights of the sledges, 

 262 ; first native tent sighted, 

 275 76; the arrival home, 276 

 77 ; Uxra's report, 313 14 



Sledge, the 



Stability needed, 159 60 ; 

 the art of starting, 240 ; evil 

 of badly-made runners, 364 

 65 ; wreck of the Author's, 

 before reaching Hope Point, 

 369 70 ; horse sledges at 

 Candle, 379, 387 



Sledges and sledge-driving, 164 66 



Sleeping bags 



Moisture in the, 161 62, 174, 

 175 ; questionable comforts 

 of, 198 



Smith's Bay, 345 



Smyth, Cape, 69 70, 348 



Snow houses, 443 



Snow-blindness 



Mr. Leffingwell suffers from, 

 185, 274 75 ; the author has 

 an attack, 24142; native 

 cures, 453 



Sounding machines, 178 



Spencer, Dr., 16, 437 



Spencer, Port, 44 



Spriggs, Mr., Presbyterian mission- 

 ary, 71, 350, 352 



Stage-driving, 414, 420, 424, 428 



Stamboul, whaling vessel, 15 



Steamers, calling at Flaxman 

 Island, 304 6 ; at Herschel 

 Island, 318 



Stefansson, Mr. Vilhjalmr 



Account, ii ; at Herschel Island, 

 91, 135 ; arrival at Flaxman 

 Island, 28081 ; return to 

 Herschel Island, 281, 441 ; 

 again at Flaxman Island, 284; 

 his collection of ethno- 

 graphical specimens, 286 ; on 

 the disposal of the crew, 292 ; 

 the start for Point Barrow, 

 294, 299 ; decides to stay 



