INDEX 



Age of maturity among Eskimo women, 



75-79. 

 Airplanes, plan for rescuing author's party 



by, 383. 

 Akeley, Carl, on eating habits of Africans, 



356. 

 Alarm clocks, usefulness of, in arctic work, 



367. 

 Alaska, schooner, 27; arrival of, at Col- 



linson Point, 66; scientific information 



gained by party on, 275; found at 



Herschel Island, 388 ; author's books on, 



463-464 ; reported on way home, 599. 

 Alaska, theory of ice navigation, 44-45 ; 



successful following of, by Alaska and 



Mary Sachs, 66. 

 Alfred, Cape, 187, 190, 220; expedition 



northwest from (1915), 294-299 ; Wil- 



kins' base near, 447. 

 Alingnak, Eskimo with author, 450, 458- 



459. 

 Allan, Alexander, captain of El Sueno, 



392-393. 

 AUanak, Minto Inlet Eskimo, 437-438. 

 Alunak, Copper Eskimo, 422. 

 Amauliktok, island of, 57; meaning of 



word, 57. 

 Amber-colored glasses for arctic work, 



200-201. 

 Ammunition, carried on northward ice 



trip, 163; accident to author from de- 

 fective, 406-407 ; carried by author in 



expedition of 1916, 494. 

 Amund Ringnes Island, landing on, 525. 

 Amundsen, finding of Nortliwest Passage 



by, 7; use of skis by, 164; snowhouse 



building learned by men with, 176 n.; 



dogs bought by, and used by author, 180. 

 Anchors found at Mercy Bay, 302. 

 Anderson, "Charlie," goes north with 



author in 1916, 494-495 ; first seal shot 



by, 512; discovery of Meighen Island 



by, 518; suffers from sno-wblindness. 



525-526 ; develops feion on hand, 567 ; 



attacked by scurvy, 610-611. 

 Anderson, John, first officer of Karluk, 34 ; 



ending of, 721. 



Anderson, Rudolph M., 27, 91; divergent 

 views of author and, on survey of Mac- 

 kenzie delta, 96-98; left in charge of 

 CoUinson Point base, 98 ; stand taken 

 by, at CoUinson Point, against author's 

 plans, 111-122; letter written to author 

 by, and its subsequent history, 112-114; 

 author's instructions sent back to, by 

 support party, 157-160; reasons for 

 disobeuience of author's orders by, 271- 

 272 ; failure of, to report author's in- 

 structions to Ottawa Government, 382 ; 

 reports of, give impression that no com- 

 munications could reach author in Banks 

 Island, 391 ; supplies sent by author to 

 (191.5), 392; account of surrendering of 

 North Star by, to Wilkins, 446-447 ; in 

 the Alaska, on way home, 599 ; summary 

 of work of southern section of expe- 

 dition, conducted by, 736-757. 



Andreasen, Martin, captain of North Star, 

 71, 101 ; theory of arctic navigation 

 practiced by, 101-103 ; attitude at time 

 of CoUinson Point difficulty, 117; sup- 

 port given author by, 138; a believer in 

 survival of author's party, 380 ; triumph 

 of, on author's arrival at Herschel Island, 

 388. 



Andreasen, Ole, volunteer with author's 

 advance party, 140 ; member of author's 

 final party on ice journey northward, 

 163 ; dread of meat diet by, 190 ; author's 

 expression of gratitude to and apprecia- 

 tion of, 236; lonesomeness unknown to, 

 250; and story of wolves on Banks 

 Island, 253-254; chosen for winter ice 

 party of 1915, 294; end of connection 

 with author's activities, 396 ; experience 

 in eating bear liver, 481 ; buys Gladiator 

 of Captain Lane, 599 ; in charge of trad- 

 ing post at Shingle Point, 675, 676. 



Angutitsiak, Point Hope Eskimo, 79. 



Animal life, in arctic regions, 17-19; 

 question concerning, in arctic waters, 

 132-136; on Melville Island, 344-345. 

 See also Birds, Ovibos, Seals, etc. 



Antarctic, comparison between Arctic and, 



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