530 
SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
and Mount Hooper Depot, (i.) 
5^3y 5^9 - — snow blindness, (i.) 
5^^9, 57''^ 57^^ ; spirit of the party, 
("•) 57^*, 5^4, 593; steering diffi- 
culties, (i.) 57O-7, 580 ; surface 
terrible — sandy snow, sastnigi, &c., 
(»-) 574> 575. 57^* ^'^^^Y- : talk in the 
tent, (i.) 586 ; weatlicr-bound in 
last camp — the fatal bliz/ard, (i.) 
594-5, A/yp. 27, 631 ; no one to 
blame —Scott's letters, (i.) 600, 601 
Geological work, (i.) 563, 564, 
5''>5, 5^>9, (ii.) M^>, 437, 439, 
498 : grave of Polar Party, (ii.) 
34''^-7, 348, t^l- 34<^ map, (i.) 
al end 0/ text : meal in camp, ill. 
(i.) 450 : memorial cross on 
Observation Hill, (ii.) 398 and ill. : 
monotony, (i.) 523, S'^.j, 536, 539, 
541, 55(> 
Return of sufiporting parties 
— appearance of members on 
return, ill. (i.) 512 ; D-Ay and 
Hooi)er, (i.) 473 ; dog teams under 
Meares, (i.) 494 wo/f, 496, 578; 
First (Atkinson's) Party, (i.) 494 
note, 511, 514, App. 23, 628 ; date 
of arrival at Cape Evans, (i .) 
298 : — Second (Lieut. Kvans') 
Party, (i.) 494 '^olc, 528, 529, 5f^3, 
5''^9, 57^. ^I'P- 24, ^'-2^*, (ii-) 299 
Sliackletoti's dates --comparison 
witli, (i.) 506, 507, 509, 511 — dates 
cauglvt up, 525 : Sliackleton's 
hick, contrast with, (i.) 482, 485, 
49G : sleeping-bags, getting into, 
ill. (i.) 452 
Supporting expeditions — dog 
teams sent to meet Southern Party, 
(i.) 589 note, (ii.) 300; held up by 
bliz/ards, (ii.) 302-3 ; navigation 
dilliculties, (ii.) 302, 304 ; not relief 
expeditions, (ii.) 298, 301 ; plans 
and stores, (ii.) 300; question of 
travclbng south from One Ton 
Camj>, (ii.) 303— stores left at 
caniji, 304 ; return, liardstiips of 
— effect on men and (logs, (ii.) 
304, 306 ; second attempt, (ii.) 
308-10 
Southern (Last) Depot, (i.) 542, 5-18 
Southern Mountains— dcscrijition, (i.) 
485: gcolo^];y, (i.) 506, 509,511; 
biuiding — recurrence of licacon 
Sandstone, (i.) 5^0 ; rocks, (i.) 
481 : — nearness to Pole suggested 
by snow ctmditions, (i.) 541 : 
scenery, (i.) 520 : trend of — possi- 
bility of shortening journey to the 
Pole, (i.) 4S0 
Southern road— interruption, danger 
of, (i.) 137, 138 and note; passage 
of, by ponies, (i.) 140 
Southern Searcti Party (1912), ill. 
(ii.) 338 : alternatives, plans, &c., 
(ii.) 327 — decision, 328 et seq. : 
commander of mule party — C. S. 
Wright, (ii.) 338 : crevasses, pre- 
cautions against, (ii.) 339 : dc])6t 
laying, (ii.) 336, 337 depots, 
dei)letion of — heavy starting 
weights necessitated, (ii.) 330 : 
dog teams, (ii.) 339 : routine, (ii.) 
342, 343 '• tent found, cairn built, 
(ii.) 345-^, 2^^. 346 — Oates' 
epitaph, 348 
Spcycr, Sir li. — Honorary Treasurer^ 
(ii.) 490, 500, 501 : Scott's farewell 
letter to, (i.) 600 
Sphinx Kock, (ii.) 109 
Sponges found, (ii.) 2x2, 216, ill. 475 : 
abundance at sea bottom, (ii.) 
482 ; Granite Harbour, (ii.) 400 
Spray ridges of ice alter a blizzard, 
ill. (i.) 207 
Stapl, V>r. O. — examination of South 
Trini<iad specimens, (ii.) 477 
Stevenson, K. L., quoted^ (i.) 420 
Stores taken, (i.) 141-3 : arrange- 
ment on landing, (i.) 103 : firms 
supplying, (ii.) 490-4 : " nothing 
forgotten, (ii.) 494 : quality, (i.) 
132 : replenishment — loads landed, 
Feb. 1912, (ii.) 384 : variety, (ii.) 
493 ' ways of store-keepers, (i.) 349 
Stormer, Professor, references to, (i.) 
258, 284 
Storms at sea — outward voyage, (i.) 
11-15; losses sustained, (i.) 16:— 
worst storm of all, (ii.) 387 
Stowaway on Third Voyage, (ii.) 389 
Strain, Mr. P. — Honorary Dentist ^ 
("■) 371 
Strand moraines, (ii.) 287 
Stralhcona, Lord, (ii.) 55 
Structure of Antarctic continent, 
Taylor on, (ii.) 415 
Snb-glacial stream, (ii.) 212 
Subsidences. See ' Barrier Shudder ' 
Suess, Mt., looking south, ill. (ii.) 264 
Summit— conditions compared with 
Sliackleton's anticipations, (i.) 530: 
level - - variation in barometer 
readings, (i.) 555 : surface, (i.) 
530 ei acq., 537, 540, 549, 550, 558 
— undulations, (i.) 520, 547; 
variety of, (i.) 521 : — variable 
light winds probable, (i.) 538 
Summit ration, (i.) 50G, 517, 533, 
ill. 382 
