INDEX 



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loads carried and good work done by 

 author's, 236 ; kinds of mysterious 

 sickness of, as evidenced at Cape Kel- 

 lett, 293 ; boots for, to cure sore feet, 

 294 ; usefulness in locating seals be- 

 neath ice, 304 ; troubles with sore feet, 

 352-353 ; used primarily by Eskimos 

 for hunting, '420-421; numbers of, 

 owned by Eskimo families, 421-422 ; 

 chasing of caribou by, and resulting 

 danger, 368-369 ; strange diseases of, 

 427 ; danger of trusting to, to find the 

 way, 458-460 ; death of one of author's 

 (Jack) , 513 ; used in hunting bears, 

 529-530. 



Dolphin and Union Straits, Hudson's Bay 

 Company post on, 390 n. 



Donohue, Peter, sailor and carpenter, 675. 



Draper, Eben S., member of Polar Bear 

 party, 99. 



Drowned valleys on Banks Island, 510. 



Duchess of Bedford expedition, 107. 



Ducks, on Lougheed Island, 544. See- 

 Birds. 



Eagles, golden, in vicinity of Banks Is- 

 land. 238. 



Eating, habits of, 191, 231; influence of 

 prejudice in, 191-192 ; the question of 

 fat needed in arctic diet, 355-356. See 

 Food. 



Edna, gasoline launch, 109 ; subsequent 

 history of, 273-274. 



Eight Bears Island, discovery of, 335 ; 

 landing on, 341-342 ; description of, 342. 



Ekblaw, Dr. E., botanizing by, in arctic 

 regions, 16. 



Ellef Ringnes Island, record left by Mac- 

 Millan found in, 528-529; record left 

 by author in, 532. 



Ellesmere Island, glaciers in, 12 ; annual 

 snowfall of, 13. 



El Sueno, motor schooner, 392-393. 



Elvira, ship, 41 ; wreck of, 66. 



Emerald Isle, seen by Storkerson, 338; 

 reason for McClintock's appellation, 

 343 ; touched by author's party on 

 return trip in 1916, 558. 



Emiu, Eskimo sailor on Polar Bear, 395, 

 407; called " Split-the-Wind," 423; first 

 experience with snowhouse, 423-424 ; 

 fondness of, for fast dog driving, 450 ; 

 adventure of, in getting lost, 450-460 ; 

 eating of bear liver by, and results, 481- 

 482 ; kills first seal by auktok method, 

 498; with author in trip of 1916, 498, 

 504-507, 590. 



Emsley, Tom, of the Kosie H., 387. 



Enc5'clop£edia Britannica, contribution of, 

 by publishers, 463. 



Equipment carried on northward ice trip, 

 163-164. 



Eskimos, condition of, the contrary of 

 wretched, 24-25 ; characteristics of, 

 25-26, 89 ; wearing of labrets by, 38- 

 40 ; at Cape Smythe, 36-40 ; sense of 

 smell possessed by, 59-60 ; maps by, 

 60; food tastes of, 63-64, 231; use of 

 tobacco by, 40, 64 ; houses of, and re- 

 lation of temperature to age of matur- 

 ity, 75-79 ; attitude of, toward con- 

 tracts, 79 ; difficulties of language of, 

 104-105; childlike notions of, 107; 

 objections of, to accompanying author's 

 party on ice journey, 129-130 ; com- 

 plete lack of support from, 130 ; snow- 

 house building a lost art to Alaskan, 

 172-173 ; snowblindness among, 201 ; 

 wooden eye protectors used by, 202 ; 

 McClure's ship Investigator a treasure 

 house to, 240-241, 360-363; methods 

 of hunting caribou, 241, 401-402; 

 "tent rings" of, 256; hunting customs 

 of, 257; burial customs of, 257-258; 

 reasons for seemingly inaccurate state- 

 ments by, 287 ; methods of hunting 

 seals, .301-310 ; reasons for avoidance 

 of MeKille Island by, 344-345 ; sup- 

 posed demand of, for fat in diet, 355- 

 356 ; acquisition of salt and other 

 strange food habits by, 366 ; finding 

 of, in Banks Island, 370-371 ; hiring 

 of, at Herschel Island (1915), 390-391; 

 procedure in engaging, 394; "blond," 

 400, 468, 469-470; cleanliness of re- 

 cently civilized, 405 ; observance of 

 .Sabbath by, 407, .571 ; language of, 

 408-409; strange beliefs of, 409-415, 

 439-442; teeth of, 414; a visit to the 

 Copper, 416-426 ; fear of all strange 

 tribes and peoples by, 426 ; treatment 

 of, by white men, 431-432 ; the less 

 sophisticated, the more agreeable, 432 ; 

 pronunciation of names by, 440-442 ; 

 losing of way by, 460; insanity among, 

 466 ; marriage customs of, 466-467 ; , 

 bear liver taboo among, 479 ; the 

 farthest north for, 544 ; chewing-gum 

 used by, 564-565 ; traces of, found in 

 Banks Island in 1917, 640-641. 

 Eyes, care of, 200-202 ; wooden protec- 

 tors used by Eskimos, 202 ; tricks 

 played by the, in misidentifying objects, 

 335-336 ; tricks in judgment of dis- 



