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INDEX 



Range-finder tor icebergs, 46, 57 



Referring Facet, 384. 



Rennick, Lieut. H. E.de P., 4, 34, 66, 76 



Riegels, 134, 136, 141, 143 



Roberts, Cape, features of, 399 ; camp at, 



400 seq. ; depot left at, 406 

 Rocks, age of (sketch), 147 ; sedimentary, 



near Taylor Glacier, 141 ; solitary, 



132-133, 147 

 Ross Island, 6ketch-map, 81 ; survey of, 



85 ; Discovery hut on, 189 

 Round Valley, 144-145 

 Royal Society Range, 127 

 Royds, Cape, Shackleton's hut at, 105- 



106 ; Taylor's visit to, 260 



Sabine, Mt., 79 



Sails, Bay of, 343 



Salmon Peak, 160 



Schizopods, 75 



Science men as seamen, 35, 424 



Scotia, 46 



Scott, Captain R. F., 4 ; first impressions 

 of, 5 ; old adventure on Ferrar Glacier, 

 75 ; visits Hut Point, 106 ; geological 

 sketch of Hut Point, 114; facsimile 

 of sledging orders, 122-123 ; One Ton 

 depot laid, 189 ; variety of interests, 

 196; journey to Cape Evans, 207 seq.; 

 takes party to Discovery hut, 216, 223 ; 

 Sunday services at Cape Evans, 225 ; 

 institutes aurora watch, 226 ,• main 

 features of winter quarters named, 233 ; 

 lecture on Plans of the Expedition, 

 241-242 ; belief in discussions, 248 ; 

 discussion on Ferrar Glacier, 257-258 ; 

 speech at Midwinter Day dinner, 268 ; 

 Taylor Glacier named, 280 ; taste in 

 literature, 283, 325 ; trip to Ferrar 

 Glacier, 304, 309 ; Taylor's summer 

 plans discussed, 311 ; Taylor's sledg- 

 ing orders, 321 ; departure on Southern 

 Journey, 325 ; charts of his and 

 Amundsen's parties, 439, 441, 442 ; 

 hardest day's work, 440 5 reason of 

 disaster to, 443-444 



Scurvy, Atkinson's tests for, 245 ; his 

 lecture on, 292-293 ; Lt. Evans at- 

 tacked by, 421, 442 



Sea, winter temperature of, 262 



Seal Rock, 233 



Seals, crab-eater, 62-63, 65 ; flensing, 63, 

 358; killing, first experiences, 116, 

 120 ; twenty miles up glacier, 141, 

 167-168 ; lassoed, 155 ; killed at 

 Hut Point, 192, 196 ; method of en- 

 larging ice-holes, 3 1 7, (sketch), ib. ; 

 and dogs, 116, 332 ; at Gneiss Point, 



342 ; at Granite Harbour, 353 ; me- 

 thod of butchering, 355 ; meat as 

 substitute for pemmican, 360 



Sedimentary Rocks. See Rocks 



Seward, Professor, 3, 444 



Shell, found on Ferrar Glacier, 125 



Simpson, Dr. G. C, 5, 13, 66 ; meteoro- 

 logical instruments, 221 ; balloons sent 

 up, 234 (sketch), ib. ; lectures by, 236, 

 288 ; magnetic work, 261 ; return of 

 sun first seen, 295 ; value of weather 

 records, 440 



Siphonophora, 262 



Sketching, Wilson's lecture on, 251-253 ; 

 value of, in Antarctica, 452 5 note- 

 books for, 453 



Ski, 68, 293 



Ski-ing, learning on the floes, 69 ; on 

 Erebus slopes, 103 



Skua gulls, mode of killing, 11, 100 ; 

 young learning to fly, 1 79 j quarrel- 

 some nature of, 355, 399 ; eggs ob- 

 tained, 372, 378 ; sketch of embryo, 

 373 ; signs of intellect in, 380 



Skua Lake, 233 



Sledge diary, 181 stq. 



Sledge-flags, 49, 73 



Sledge foods, Bowers' lecture on, 250 



Sledges, loads of, on First Journey, 117- 

 119; steel runners for, 119,452; motor, 

 91 ; loss of, 99 seq. ; Day's lecture on, 

 264 ; difficulties with, 322 seq. 



Sledging, 6tores, how calculated, 53 ; 

 weights carried, 54 ; literature carried, 

 151; facsimile of orders, 122-1235 

 food allowance, 335 ; cooking, 350-351 



Slippery Slope, 233, 296 



Smith, Mr. Reginald J., gift of books, 

 50, 283 



Snow, as thirst quencher, 373 



Snow-blindness, 408 



Snow Valley, 116, 169, 173 



Socks, patent heel-tip (sketch), 308, 455 



Soil-creep (solifluxion), 115, 300, 388 



Sollas Glacier, 139, 162 



Solitary Rocks. See Rocks 



Soundings, depth of ocean, 61, 79 ; 

 apparatus (sketch), 67 ; off glacier 

 mouths, 120; off Cape Evans, 249 



South American Glacier, 131 



South Bay, named, 233 5 biological station 

 at, 262 



South Polar Times, Wilson's sketches, 

 156 ; resumed, 231 5 Day's binding for, 

 254 j volumes produced, 265 seq., 302- 

 3°3> 3'7 > guesses at authors, 270, 303 



Spiders, sea-, 303 



"Sponge -coral" (sketch), 256 



