INDEX. 



497 



Dietary, travelling, daily, per man, i. 32G ; 



per dog, i. 327 

 Disco Bay, ii. 441 



Disco Island, Davis' Strait, i. 19, ii. 442 

 Djteveloen (Devil Island), ii. 481, 482, 483 

 Dogs for the expedition : Norwegian 

 (Swedish) elk-dogs procured from Ind- 

 herred, i. 11 ; destroyed as useless, i. 297. 

 Eskimo sledge-dogs from Egedesminde 

 and Godhavn, i. 13, 17, 19 ; their valuable 

 qualities, i, 18, 78 ; comparison of the 

 various breeds, i. 18 ; dog-driving, i. 41 ; 

 a dog-load, i. 70 ; how best to care for, 

 i. 78, 288 ; their traits, i. 79, 327 ; ' Tiger's ' 

 vicious propensities, i. 187 ; Eskimo 

 method of securing dogs to ice, i. 110 ; 

 the dog and its ailments, i. 288-290 ; 

 daily dietary per dog when travelling, i. 

 327 ; a curious trait, i. 327 ; a dangerous 

 spill, i. 344-346 ; their music when taken 

 on board, ii. 40 ; ' Svartflekken ' mauled 

 by wolves, ii. 219 ; dogs scared by a 

 weird ice-image, ii. 245 ; the dogs and 

 the seals, ii. 260 ; heroic conduct of a 

 mother, ii. 279, 280 ; ' Turisteu's ' broken 

 rib doctored, ii. 293 ; ' one touch of 

 nature,' ii. 297 ; difficult to get them on 

 board, ii. 322 ; two dogs killed by a polar 

 ox, ii. 348 ; a fall over a precipice with a 

 bear, ii. 358; a disputed point settled, 

 ii. 382 ; parting from old friends at God- 

 havn, ii. 442 

 Dredging operations of the expedition, for 



a report on, nee Appendix, ii. 467, 477 

 Dying people, a, ii. 207-212 

 Dyrebugten (Deer Bay), ii. 296 



EAST CAPE (Ostkap), ii. 280 



Egede, Hans, Apostle of Greenland, i. 13, 17 



Egedesminde, i. 13-17 ; Eskimo sledge- 

 dogs procured at, for expedition, i. 13 ; 

 mixed population at, i. 13 ; a grand day 

 at, i. 14 ; the pastor of, i. 45, ii. 441 



Eider-ducks, i. 20, 63 ; how to start a 

 colony, i. 65, 66 ; quantities met with on 

 journeys ; myriads at Ytre Eide, ii. 302 ; 

 evidences of their cultivation by Eskimo 

 at St. Helena, ii. 311 



Eidsbotn, ii. 42 and note 



Eidsfjord, on Norskebugten, ii. 144, 151 ; 

 examined by Schei, ii. 258 



Ellef Eingnes Land, ii. 298 



Ellesmere Land, i. 28, 120, 210, 482. 

 First trip across, i. 40-70 ; descend to 

 Leffert Glacier, i. 40 ; out of Alexandra 

 Fjord, i. 41 ; in Hayes Sound, i. 42; a 

 base for mapping operations, i. 43 ; the 

 first taste of polar-ox flesh and milk, i. 

 48-67; 'Juliana' soup, i. 48, 53; Peary 

 met with near Fort Juliana, i. 57-61 ; Bay 

 and Isachsen map Beitstadfjord, i. 63. 

 Second expedition to cross, i. 120-141 ; 

 polar oxen in, i. 121, 126, 138, 141 ; 

 their methods of attack and defence, i. 

 127-129 ; triangulations in, i. 122 ; steep 

 canons in, i. 132 ; Tommen, i. 135 ; 

 Isachsen and Braskerud report on 

 glaciated portion of, i. 170-182 ; Leffert 

 Glacier, i. 171 ; country much broken, i. 

 172 ; geology of, i. 177 ; vegetation of, i. 

 VOL. II. 



181 ; zoology of, i. 181, 182 ; remains of 

 Eskimo settlements in, i, 190-192; once 

 the haunt of reindeer, i. 192 ; sledge- 

 journey through, i. 241-275; big game 

 in southern portion of, i. 257, 258, 260- 

 266, 275 ; western portion named Kong 

 Oscars Land (q-v.), i. 348 



Eskimo of Greenland, social conditions of, 

 i. 15; marriage and other customs of, i. 

 15, 16 ; murder rare in Danish Greenland, 

 but common on west coast, i. 16 ; their 

 fox-traps, i. 63 ; their ancient settlements 

 met with, i. 64, 184, 188, 190, 191, 207. 

 210, ii. 211, 212, 227, 245, 258, 303, 311, 

 313, 361, 394, 411, 420 ; parties of, visit 

 the 'Fram,' i. 101-108 ; their music and 

 singing, i. 104 ; some igdloos of, sighted, 

 i. 113, 114 ; a dying people, ii. 207-212 ; 

 evidences of their cultivating the eider- 

 duck on St. Helena, ii. 311 ; a curious 

 rind of carved bone articles at Stenkul- 

 fjord, ii. 420 



Etah. See Littleton Island 



Exkrementbugten, a bay in Hell Gate, ii. 306 



FAIR ISLE, the Orkneys, i. 6, ii. 444 



Falkberget (Falcon Mountain), ii. 308 



Finsko, i. 100, note 



Fire on board the ' Fram,' i. 207, 462465 



Flagler Fjord, tiee Nordfjord 



Flatsund, the sound between lleiberg Land 



and Schei Island, ii. 373 

 Footgear, new, ii. 26, 143 

 Fort Juliana, i. 48, 56, 68, 69, 120, 152, 154, 

 183 ; meeting with Peary at, i. 57 ; severe 

 cold while at, i. 98-100 ; Eskimo settle- 

 ments, i. 184, 190-192 

 Fosheim, Ivar, member of the expedition, 

 i. 4 ; is keen on bear-hunting, i. 239, 245- 

 247, 249, 417, vol. ii. passim ; describes 

 Kolotengva's visit to the ' Fram,' i. 

 102-108 ; gets frost-bitten, i. 268 ; his 

 winter work as carpenter, i. 298, ii. 109 ; 

 on the track of reindeer, i. 391-394 ; suc- 

 ceeds Bay as ' commandant ' at Bjorne- 

 borg, i. 458 ; his experiences there, ii. 9 ; 

 has Arctic Oce.in fester, ii. 9 ; he and 

 Kaanes journey to Heureka Sound, ii. 

 249 ; explore east side of Heureka Sound 

 northwards, ii. 192, 273-294; a fruitless 

 midnight walk, ii. 47, 158 

 Fosheim's Baby (Peak), in Havnefjord, i. 

 218 ; visited by Schei and Bay, to dredge 

 and geologize, i. 221 

 Fosheimsaeter, i. 147, 230 

 Foulke Fjord, Greenland side of Smith 



Sound, i. 26, 193, 200 ; hares in, i. 27 

 Fourth Camp (Fjosrdeleirsplads), on Jones 

 Sound, i. 354, 358 ; boat beached here, 

 ii. 300 



Fox in wolves' cage, ii. 121, 354, 424 

 Foxes, white, trapping, i. 283 

 ' Fram,' Second Polar Expedition of the, i. 

 I ; Dr. Nanseu offers Captain Sverdrup the 

 command, i. 1 ; loan of ' Fram ' by Govern- 

 ment, i. 2 ; sets sail from Christiania, 

 June 24, 1898, i. 4 ; Greenland sighted, 

 i. 8 ; ice and seals, i. 8, 9 ; off Godthaab, 

 i. 13 ; at Egedesminde, i. 13-17 ; dogs 

 and ski, i. 18 ; dogs taken on board, i. 

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