INDEX 



46: 



Sponges, in the ice, 177, 1S0 



SpringtaiJ, Antarctic. See Gomphoce- 

 phalus 



Stalactites, how formed, 287 



Stamp6, surcharged, 80 



Steig-eisen (sketch), 197 



Stocking Glacier, 28, 132 



Storm, on outward voyage, 40-44. ; on 

 homeward voyage, 428-432 



Strand moraines, 410 



Straw hat, 146 



Suess Glacier, and sketch, 141-142 



Suess, Mt., 362 5 nunatak (sketch), 385 ; 

 map, 385 ; circumnavigated, 388, 

 (sketch), 389 



Sun, midnight, 59 ; lowest point of, cal- 

 culated, 269, (sketch), ib.\ return of, 

 celebrated, 294 ; first seen, 295 



Sunholes, 93, 121 



Sunshine recorder, sketch of, 306 



Swinging ship. See Terra Nova 



Tasman Glacier, 26 ; sketch of, 27 

 Taylor, Griffith : official position, 7 j a 

 walker, 7, 10 ; visit to Alps, 8, 9 ; 

 survey work in Australia, 10 ; his 

 problem in Antarctica, 14; bowie- 

 knife disturbs compass, 34 ; midnight 

 watch, 59; retrieves fish from floe, 70; 

 sledge work on landing, 92 ; visits 

 Inaccessible Island, 95 



First Western Journey, i i i seq. ; 

 a geologist's equipment, 144 ; washes 

 for gold, 145 ; fall into " moat," 147 ; 

 dreams, 150, 1S2 ; adventure among 

 crevasses, 152 ; lassoes a seal, 155 ; a 

 week's cooking, 165-166 ; flooded out, 

 174; unfulfilled prophecy, 177; sledge 

 diary, 181 seq. ; hallucination, 185 



A Month in Discovery Hut, 189 

 seq. ; visits Crater Heights, 197; cook, 

 200, 202 5 dreams, 201 ; frostbite, 202; 

 fall into sea-ice, 205 ; journey to Cape 

 Evans, 207 seq. 



In Winter Quarters, 211 seq. ; 

 plan of hut, 212 ; first aurora seen, 

 2i 8 ; report on Western Journey, 219; 

 musical abilities, 223 ; photography, 

 224, 296 ; ice caves visited, 230 ; 

 night watchman, 231, 243, 264 ; main 

 features of winter quarters named, 233 ; 

 lectures by — on principles of physio- 

 graphy, 238-239 ; on Beardmore Gla- 

 cier, 255 ; on physiography of Western 

 Mountains, 270 ; on glaciation, 295 ; 

 on corals, 303 ; list of officers' travels, 

 242-243 ; physical measurements, 225, 

 248 ; articles for South Polar Times, 



241, 243, 287, 288, 312, 318 ; hut 

 routine, 247-249 ; chart of mean tem- 

 peratures, 255 ; visit to Cape Royds, 

 260 ; speech at Midwinter Day dinner, 

 268 j sun's lowest point calculated, 269 ; 

 competition with Gran, 270 ; chess, 

 271 j hut arguments, 273-274 ; dreams, 

 277-278, 287 ; night watch supper 

 (sketch), 274 ; "jam day," 279 ; Tay- 

 lor Glacier named, 280 ; Erebus steain 

 cloud sketched, 281 ; books read, 283- 

 284 ; book-binding, 293 ; Cape Evans 

 mapped, 295, 298 seq. ; plane-table 

 improvised, 295 ; debris cones dis- 

 sected, 297 ; Wilson's caricature of, 

 301 ; meteorological work under- 

 taken, 303, 305 ; " patent heel-tips," 

 308 ; Tent Island visited, 311, 317 ; 

 summer plans discussed with Scott, 

 311 ; bicycling to Turk's Head, 314- 

 315; trip to Shackleton's hut, 3 1 9 seq. ; 

 sledging orders for Granite Harbour 

 expedition, 321 ; Barne Glacier tra- 

 versed, 322-323 ; last impressions of 

 Oates and Wilson, 326-327 



Granite Harbour Expedition, 

 329 w'y.; sledges packed, 331 ; Bowers' 

 list of stores, 332 ; blizzards met, 333, 

 335) 3^2 seq. ; magnetic variation, 

 337 ; steering on the march, 337 ; 

 Butter Point reached, 338 ; relaying, 

 339 ; survey, 340 ; ice-yacht, 342-343 i 

 dreams, 342, 364 ; night marching, 

 345 ; Granite Harbour reached, 348 ; 

 View Point camp, 349 ; foods on sledge 

 journey, 350-351 ; cave discovered, 

 352 ; cloud effects, 353 ; water supply, 

 354 ; seal hoosh, 3553 Gompliocephalus 

 found, 356 ; birthday of, 356 ; adven- 

 tures on sea-ice, 366 ; benefit of 

 goggles, 369 ; finger cut, 371, 376, 

 379 ; snow as thirst-quencher, 373 5 

 value of "ironclad" boots, 373; 

 Mackay Tongue movement measured 

 373, 375 ; unusual minerals found, 379 -, 

 Christmas Day celebrations, 380 ; in- 

 sects embalmed, 381 5 journey over 

 Mackay Glacier, 382 seq. 5 peaks and 

 glaciers named, 384 ; fish fossils found, 

 386 ; Mt. Suess circumnavigated, 388 ; 

 Mackay Glacier movement measured, 

 395 ; return journey begun, 396 ; fall 

 into sea, 397; as "sledge poet," 398, 

 401 ; Cape Roberts camp, 400 seq. j 

 Terra Nova seen, 402 ; crevasses met, 

 406 seq. ; snow-blindness, 408 ; picked 

 up by Terra Nova, 4 1 1 



The Voyage Back, 413 seq. ; gifts 



