INDEX 



773 



Great War, a reason for worth-whileness 

 of, 72-73; first news received of (1915), 

 375-378; further news of (1917), 668; 

 news of, received by wireless at Fort 

 Yukon, 685. 



Greely Expedition, sufferings of members 

 from hunger, 194. 



Greenland, an ice-covered land, 12. 



Grey, Sir Edward, as a prophet, 625. 



Gulf Stream, action and effect of, 9. 



Gulls in arctic regions, 217 ; Ivory, 217 ; 

 Barrow, 217; at Banks Island, 242; 

 killing of lemmings by, 332 ; rookery 

 of, on Melville Island, 356-357; north 

 of Cape Isachsen, 518 ; eggs of Ross's, 

 discovered by McClintock, 522 ; found 

 by author, 522 ; seen by Storkerson's 

 drifting party, 700; found by Karluk 

 crew at Cape Waring, 718. 



Gumaer, A., support given Storkerson 

 by, in survey work, 657 ; return of, to 

 Cape Kellett, 657-658; volunteers for 

 drifting trip in Arctic Ocean (1918), 

 695. 



Guninana, Eskimo woman, 450; ethno- 

 logical information from, 451. 



Guns carried by author, 163, 406-407. 



Hadley, John, friend at Cape Smythe, 

 36 ; engaged for expedition, 36 ; special 

 reasons for engaging, 36-38 ; meeting 

 with, at Herschel Island, 388 ; as chief 

 house-builder at Victoria Island, 402 ; 

 encounter with a bear, 484-485 ; made 

 master of Polar Bear, 670 ; at Barter 

 Island with Storkerson's party (1918), 

 690-691 ; birth and training of, for 

 polar work, 703 ; death of, from influ- 

 enza in San Francisco, 703 ; account 

 by, of last cruise of Karluk, 703-721. 



Haggard, H. Rider, the stories of, 464. 



Hair, effect of North on growth of, 410- 

 411 ; of Eskimos, 467. 



Hall, C. F., on snowhouses, 176. 



Hamilton, Lieutenant, the Markham 

 Island of, 564 ; package containing 

 jackets of, found in Kellett's depot, 

 630. 



Hanbury, David, description of Dismal 

 Lake by, 21 ; meeting of Hitkoak with, 

 419. 



Hansen, Godfred, survey work of, on 

 Victoria Island, 400. 



Harding, Mr. and Mrs. C, 102, 390, G77, 

 679. 



Hardship, qualifications for meeting suc- 

 cessfully, 65 ; not necessarily involved 



in arctic exploration, 179 ; general lack 

 of, in author's polar experience, 490- 

 491 ; further discussion, 571-573. 



Harkin, J. B., member of commission on 

 domestication of ovibos, 589 n. 



Harness, troubles from rotting of, 351- 

 352. 



Harnessing of dogs, 147, 148 ; tandem 

 system, 148, 180. 



Harper, Walter, author's meeting with, 

 on way to Fort Yukon, 684. 



Harpooning of seals by Eskimos, 309. 



Harrison Bay, grounding of Karluk. in, 

 43-44 ; crossing of, by author's party 

 (1914), 79-81. 



Harvard men on Polar Bear, 99-100. 



Hassel Sound, 525 ; tide observations on, 

 528. 



Hayes, American explorer, "Open Polar 

 Sea" of, 324. 



Hazen, Sir Douglas, Minister of Naval 

 Service, 383-384. 



Heard, John, Jr., member of Polar Bear 

 party, 99 ; visit from, at Martin Point, 

 142. 



Heather for fuel, 244 ; abundance of, in 

 Banks Island, 256. 



Hecla Bay, 564. 



Herona, Minto Inlet Eskimo boy, 370. 



Herschel Island, weather observatory at, 

 14; arrival at (New Year's, 1914), 103- 

 104 ; snowhouse built by author at 

 (1917-18), 173; summer visit to (1915), 

 387-396 ; excitement caused by author's 

 arrival at, 388 ; post of Hudson's Bay 

 Company, founded at, 389 ; arrival 

 at, on return trip (1917), 670; author 

 ill with typhoid fever and pneumonia 

 at, 677-682. 



Hitkoak, Copper Eskimo, 419, 420. 



Hobbs, W. H., "Earth Features and Their 

 Meaning," cited, 514. 



Hoff, J. E., engineer, 392. 



Hoods, wearing of, in the North, 605. 



Hopson, Alfred, interpreter at Cape 

 Smythe, 36, 69-70, 79. 



Horlick's milk cans, uses for, 516. 



Hornaday, W. T., cited on wool of ovi- 

 bos, 587. 



Hornby Point, Wynniatt's farthest north, 

 430. 



Houses, change in style of Eskimos', 75; 

 relation between lower temperature of, 

 and increase in age of maturity of 

 women, 75 ; suggestions on building, 

 in North, 403 ; of Copper Eskimos, 418- 

 420. See also Snowhouses. 



