GREENLAND BY THE POLAR SEA 



Repulse Harbour, 86, 87 ; Beaumont's 

 beacon at, 95, 96 



Rest Point, 90, 91 



Rheumatism, prevalence, 18 



Rittenbenk, 209 



Rivers, glacier, 233-35 



Robeson Channel, 73, 78-80, 114, 311 



Roosevelt, the, 7 



Ross, and the Polar Eskimos, 1-4 



Ruins, camp, 57, 58 ; records of Eskimo, 

 64 ; near Hall's Grave, 76 ; winter- 

 houses, 242 



Russell, Cape, 56, 57, 239, 245 



Ryder Glacier, 202 



Sabine, Cape, 149 



Sachseus, and the Polar Eskimos, 2-3 



Saint Andrew's Bay, 109 



Saint George's Fjord, 92, 93, 98, 109, 

 161, 180, 184, 186, 191, 212, 216, 219, 

 221, 246 



Salmon, 56 



Salor, Cape, 138-39 ; the depot, 135 ; the 

 meeting at, 160 



Samisulik type of house, 57 



Saunders' Island, 13, 14, 23 



Saxifrage, 125, 295-96 ; living, found by 

 Wulff, 88 



Schley, Captain, 150 



Scotland, mountain chains of, 305-6 



Scott, Cape, 243, 268-69, 287 



Scurvy, in Markham's party, 83 ; Prof. 

 Lindhardt on, 83 note; in Beau- 

 mont's party, 95 



Sea, real open Polar, out of the ques- 

 tion, 73-74 



Sea-hunting by kayak, 12 



Sea-king mountains, 13, 25 



Sea-kings, hunting of, 13 ; storing of, 

 22 25 



Sealand, 117, 131 



Seal-hunting, 14, 16, 198-206; Utut 

 method, 51-52 ; in Washington Land, 

 64 ; hunting a sunken seal, 191-93 



Seals, 126-27, 158-59 : serving of bearded 

 seal, 52 ; eaten bv a bear, 70 ; at 

 Dragon Point, 101 ", 108, 109 ; by the 

 whirlpool, 133; habits, 142-44, 187 



Seddon, Cape, 20, 67-68 



Selim, Dr. Birger, 272 



Sherard Osborne Fjord, 78, 92, 103, 173 ; 

 journey to Nordenskjold Fjord from, 

 94-123; ice of, 98; charting of, 104, 

 106, 108, 111, 316; snow of, 114; 

 crossed for the last time, 182-86; 

 glaciers, 202, 216 



Sheridan, Cape, 66, 88 



Shooting-sail, use, 16 



Sikussaq ice, 63, 69, 86, 89, 191, 242 



Simigaq, house of, 37 ; personality, 38- 

 40 



Sipsu, hunter, 41, 76, 77, 288 



"Ski Cove," 112 



Ski-ing, 52 



Skis, preference over snow-shoes, 221 



326 



Sledge-dogs, 16 



Sledge-lashing, 167-69 



Smith Sound, 15, 50, 73, 146, 312 



Snorre, 203, " Hejmskringla " cited, 179 



Snow, Polar, Beaumont's difficulties, 



96, 99 

 Snow-houses, 20; seasons for, 318 

 Snow-shoes, Canadian, 221 

 Snow-storms, 128-29 

 Songs, Eskimo, 39-41, 46 

 Sophus Miiller Point, 316, 317, 319 

 Spitzbergen, mountains of, 305-6 

 Spring-time camp (Aunartoq), 50-53 

 Stanton, Cape, 89 

 "Star," the, 62 

 "Starvation Camp," 149-50 

 Steensby, Professor, theories, 312-14 

 Stephenson Island, 102 

 Stockholm, 272, 274; the Riksmuseum, 



273 

 Stone-bearing strata, 62 

 Stores cached, stocktaking, 188 

 Storms, autumn, 286 

 Strap-seal, 14 

 Sumatra, 274 



Sumner, Cape, to Dragon Point, 80-93 

 Summer Valley, 175-83 

 Sun, the midnight, 309 

 Sunlight, periods of, 309-10 

 Swedo-Russian Expedition, 271 



Taney, Cape, 54, 57 



Temperatures measured on various 



types of ground, 293-94 

 Tent-rings, 63, 316-17, 319 

 Tents, Eskimo, 19-20 

 Th. Thomson Fjord, 155 

 Thalbitzer, William, 312 

 Thank God Harbour, 41, 73 

 Thetis, ship, 150 

 Thule, 21, 23, 248; the departure from, 



33-35 ; Hendrik in, 208-9 ; journey 



back to, 285-91 

 Thule beacon, 156 

 Thule Expeditions, 64, 68, 165, 223, 274, 



316 

 Thule Mountain, 152, 154 

 Tornarssuit, 30 

 Tornge, hunter, house of, 36-37, 57-58; 



story of, 54-56, 66, 68 

 Tower-traps, 54 

 Trddgdrden, the, 272 

 Traditions, burial, 49 

 Traps, American steel, 14 ; tower-traps, 



54 

 Tyson, Cape, 79 



Ulugssat, camp, 36, 37, 286 



Umanaq, Bay of, 307 



Umanaq, Mount, 34 



United States of the Ice Period, 306 



Upernivik, 68, 146, 307, 317; sunlight, 



309 

 Utut method of seal-catching, 16, 51 

 Uvdloriaq, 64, 65, 68 



