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logy, 234; discovery of rookery, 252, 

 268 ; care of young, 269 ; eagerness- 

 to sit, 270 



Pennell, Harry L. L., liii, 3, 4, 8, 565, 572 



Petrel, Antarctic, 63 



, black-breasted, 1 3 



, giant, 50 



, snowy, xix, 50 



, white-breasted, 1 3 



Plankton, 6, 69 



Pole, South, Scott's final arrangements, 

 379 ; altitude, 502 ; Amundsen's ar- 

 rival, 506 ; Scott's arrival, 506 ; char- 

 acteristics of area, 508 



Polheim (camp), 507 



Polychaete worms, 568 



Ponies, Manchurian, on board ship, 49 ; 

 their uses, 88 ; effect of blizzards on, 

 113 ; Scott's care of, 114; behaviour 

 on ice, 141 ; fodder, 179 ; exercis- 

 ing, 190 ; treatment and diseases, 

 218; Scott's decision, 327; weights 

 lightened, 331 ; difficulties on march, 

 342 ; destroyed, 349 



Ponting, Herbert G., 90, 173, 213, 320, 

 429 



Portuguese man-of-war, 7 



Pram, 17, 19 



Pram Point, 98, 162, 466, 566 

 Priestley, Raymond E., liii, 130, 558 

 Ptomaine poisoning, lvii 

 Pulleyn, Lieut. George, 410 



Ramp, the, 168 



Rennick, H. E. de P., 3, 565 



Resolution, the, xviii 



Roberts, Cape, lviii, 425 



Ross. Sir James C, xxii, 1 1, 12 



Ross Island, xxiii 



Sea, xxiii, xxviii, xlii 



Royal Society Range, 493 



Royds, Cape, xlv, xlvii, 98, 183, 461, 



559 



Sabine, Mt., xxiii, 80 



Safety Camp, no, 122, 136, 306 



St. Paul, island, 33 



Scott, Capt. R. F., on early explorations, 

 xx ; on Ross, xxvii ; first expedition, 

 1901— 1904, xxxiii ; excellence of 

 equipment, lxii ; commencement of 

 second expedition, 1 ; visits South 

 Trinidad, 1 901, 12 ; joins Terra Nova, 

 31 ; Depot Journey, 104 ; character 

 and achievements, 200, 573 ; paper on 

 Barrier, 214 ; trip to Western Moun- 

 tains, 306 ; Barrier stage of Polar 

 Journey, 319 seq. ; Beardmore Glacier 

 Journey, 350 seq. ; Plateau Journey, 

 368 ; strength of team, 377 ; altera- 



tion in units, 379 ; tries new sledge 

 runners, 457 ; body discovered, 480 ; 

 burial, 483 ; his account of journey 

 to Pole, 496 seq. ; return from Pole, 

 511 seq. ; message to the public, 541 ; 

 drawbacks of his plan, 545 

 ' Scott's Last Expedition,' lix 

 Scurvy, lvii, 215, 393 

 Sea, freezing of, 448 

 Sea-cucumber, 568 

 Sea-leopard, 65, 66 

 Sea-urchins, 567 

 Seal, 66, 67, 162 



, crab-eating, 67, 68 



, Ross, 66 



, Weddell, 66, 67, 161, 464, 466 



Shackleton, Sir Ernest, xxxvii, xlvii 



Shambles Camp, 349, 502 



Simon's Bay, 31 



Simpson, G. C., 4, 215, 306 seq., 429, 



502, 504 

 Ski, use of, 355, 458, 498 

 Ski Slope, 152 

 Skua gulls, 464, 499 

 Skua Lake, 95, 182 

 Sledge meters, 385, 417, 461 



runners, Nansen on, 456, 457 



Sledges, Nansen's innovation, xxx ; 



motor, 88, 92, 321 

 Smoking, limitations on, 195 

 Snow-blindness, 353 

 South Bay, 447 



' South Polar Times,' 437, 445 

 South Trinidad, landing, 13 ; bird life, 

 13, 14; land crabs, 14: difficulty of 

 leaving, 15, 18 

 Southern Barrier Depot, 338 

 Sverdrup, O. N., xxx 



Taylor, Griffith, lxi, 215, 307, 308, 317, 

 429 



Temperature, of polar plateau, 505 ; 

 effect on Polar party, 553 



Tent Island, 186, 439, 566 



Terra Australis, belief in existence of, xviii 



Terra Nova Bay, 493 



Terra Nova, the, on Scott's first expedi- 

 tion, xlv ; commencement of voyage, 

 1 9 10, 1 ; crew, 2 ; arrangement of 

 cabins, 3 ; defects in pumps, 5, 28 ; 

 plankton nets, 6 ; fire on board, 6 ; 

 biological observations, 7 ; lack of 

 fresh water, 8 ; refits at Lyttelton, 

 44 ; overloading, 50 ; suitability for 

 ice work, 73 ; anchorage, 10 1 ; arrival 

 with mails, 409 ; defects, 548 ; ex- 

 pedition finally relieved, 564 ; trawling, 



567 

 Terror, Mt., xxiii, xxiv, xli, 252, 558 

 Terror, the, xxii, xxix 



