INDEX 



Adam Biering Land, 154 



Advance Bay, 55, 57, 59-60, 242, 246 



Agassiz, Cape, 57, 59, 184, 188, 225, 231, 

 251, 268, 277; vegetation, 275; the 

 collections brought from, 285, 287 



Agpalinguaq, 11 



Ainu people, Wulff and the, 273-74 



Ajako, 41, 52, 77, 78, 85, 115, 162, 168, 

 193; musk-ox-hunting, 99-103, 106, 

 109, 120-21, 172-73; wolf-hunting, 

 110; snow-blindness, 111; journey to 

 Nyeboes Glacier, 119; his dogs, 122; 

 hares, 126-35, 137 ; illness, 133-35; 

 volunteers again, 139-40 ; seal-hunt- 

 ing, 144, 187-89, 206 ; at Thule Moun- 

 tain, 152 ; and the Great Flesh-pot, 

 158-59; reliability 174-78; at Cape 

 May, 183 ; hopefulness of, 204-6 ; re- 

 connoitring expeditions, 237 ; the 

 walk to Etah, 238-48, 277- men- 

 tioned in Dr. Wulff 's diary, 280 ; the 

 attempt to bury Dr. Wulff, 285-87 



Akia, country of, 61. See Washington 

 Land 



Akunarmiut, "between the winds," 20, 

 23-24 



Albert and Victoria Mountains, the, 305 



Alert, journey, 1875-76, 78; at Floeberg 

 Beach, 82 ; Beaumont sets out from 

 the, 94-96 



Aleutic Isles, 313 



Alexander, Cape, 42 



Amulets, 31 



Angmagssalik, 319 



Angutdligamaq, storv of, 44-47 



Animals, Arctic, 299-300 



Anoritoq, camp at, 11, 15, 24, 25, 57, 67 ; 

 our arrival, 44-47 ; Eiderduck of, 49 



Arnajaq, tales of, 44-47 



Arnaruluk, 28 



Assarpanguaq, 248 



Astrup, 112, 219 



Auk-mountains, 13 



Aunartoq camp, houses of, 47, 50-53 



Avangnardlit, inhabitants, 20, 24-25 



Avortungiaq's Island, 57 



Baffin, first discoverer of the Eskimo, 1 

 Baffin's Bay, 22 ; reindeer customs from, 



51 ; open water of, 74 

 Ballot Island, 79 

 Barnacle-geese, 135, 144, 157, 175 



Bartlett, Captain, 248-49 



Bawl, sailor, 96 



Bay Fjord, 315 



Bear Island, 305 



Bear-dogs, 16 



Bear-hunting, 15, 16, 25 



Bear-skins, uses, 22-23 ; barter in, 24 



Beaumont Isles, 92, 183-84 



Beaumont, Lieut. 75, 91, 146; at Gap 

 Valley, 86 ; the deposit at Beau- 

 mont's beacon, 97, 115 ; tenacity of, 

 99 ; report of, 94-97, 107, 115 



Behring Strait, 312 



Bennett, Cape, 139, 158 



Benton Bay, 63, 317 



Bessel Fjord, 70 



Bierderbick, 150 



Bird-hunting, 13 



Birds, Arctic, 299 



Black Horn Cliffs, 87, 88, 95, 148, 187 



Blue Point, 159 



Bluebottles, 182 



Boatswain Sound, 157 



Boggild, Prof. Bernhard, 155 



Bosun, 100, 106, 108, 162; hares, 78; 

 musk-ox -hunting, 85, 167-68, 173 ; 

 endurance of, 102, 139-40; at Nor- 

 denskjold Fjord, 119 ; geese, 144 ; 

 seal-hunting, 187-89, 192-93; story 

 of Hendrik 194; on land, 238, 240'; 

 return to Etah, 259-70 ; mentioned 

 by Dr. Wulff, 280, 282 ; a new outfit, 

 285-86 



Brainard, 145-48, 150 



Brevoort, Cape, 85-87, 114 



Bridgeman, Cape, 140, 155 ; Koch's 

 beacon, 119 



Britannia, Cape, 92, 146 



Bronlund, Jbrgen, feat of, 165 



Brown's Coast, 69 



Bryan, Cape, 64, 69, 70, 91, 95, 114, 

 187 



Bryant, Cape, 146 



Burials, 49 



Buttress, Cape, 111-12, 184 



Caledonian Folding, the, 306 

 Callhourn, Cape, 65 

 " Camp Mountain," the, 301 

 Camp-fires, effect, 163 

 Camps, permanent, 20-25; Eskimo, near 

 Lake Hazen, 147 



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