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Index 
Sabine Peninsula, 267 
Sabine's Gull, 203 
Sabrina, 405, 406 
Sabrina Land, 406, 430 
Saga, of Erik the Red, 38; of Olaf 
Tryggvason, 38; of Thornn Karl- 
sefni, 39 
St Lesmes, 389 
St Paul, 177 
St Peter, 177, 178 
"Sallying," 8, 195 
Salomon, 86, 88 
Samoyeds, 14, 16, 184, 185; de- 
scribed by Digges, 107 
Sanderson, William, 94, 96, 98, 104; 
supports Davis's expeditions, 104 
"Sanderson his Hope," 99, 142, 202, 
207 
Sandridge, Davis's birthplace, 93 
Sandwich Land, 403 
Sartorius, Sir George, 401 
Sastrugi, 182, 501 
Saxifraga oppositifolia, 295 
Schouten, Willem Cornelisz, 390 
— William, Junior, 191, 194 et seq.; 
takes holy orders, 196; his life, 
197; visits Greenland, 279 
— William, Senior, 188, 191, 194, 
195; describes Spitsbergen, 119, 
121 
Scoresby Sound, 367 
Scotia, 439 
Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon, his first 
expedition, 447 et seq. ; made 
Commander, 448 ; his staff on 
Discovery, 449; objects of, 452; 
crosses Antarctic Circle, 456; falls 
down crevasse, 474; his last expe- 
dition, 489 et seq.; marries, 489; 
his staff on last expedition, 490 et 
seq.; meets with heavy gale, 491, 
492 ; meets Amundsen's party, 
493; his winter quarters at Cape 
Evans, 495 ; starts for the S. Pole, 
498; finds Amundsen's record at 
the S. Pole, 500; reaches S. Pole, 
501; death of, 502; discovery of 
bodies of his party, 503 ; results of 
his work, 504; memorial service 
to, 504 ; character of, 504 
Scott Island, 469 
Scurvy attacks Baffin's crew, 145; 
Barentsz's crew, 75, 76; Bering's 
crew, 178; Biscoe's crew, 404; 
Egede's colony, 159, 160; Evans's 
party, 498; Middleton's expedi- 
tion, 166; Munk's expedition, 150; 
Nares's expedition, 306, 308, 309; 
Ross's expedition, 250 
Sea-cow, 179 
Sea-elephant, 405 
Sea-leopard, 402 
Sea-otter, 178 
Seal-meat, 482 
Seals, Southern fur, 400 
— Weddell's, 483 
Searchthrift, 63 
Searle, John, his ephemeris, 141 
Seebohm, Henry, 326 
"Senegraes," 342, 478 
Sermilik Fjord, 365 
Seymour Island, 423, 431, 436 
Shackleton, Sir Ernest, 449, 463 et 
seq., 470; breaks down, 464; his 
Antarctic expedition, 478 et seq. 
Sherer, Lieut., 213, 216 
Shilling, Capt., 147 
Ships, Viking, 35 
Sibbald, Lieut. John, 411, 420 
Siberian rivers, 15; trade on, 326 
Sibirikoff, 322, 323, 326 
Sidney, Sir Henry, 81 
Simpson, Dr, 491, 498 
— Thomas, 228 
Sir George Seymour Island, v. 
Seymour Island 
Sir Thomas Smith Channel, 347 
Sir Thomas Smith Sound, 143 
Skelton, Reginald, 449, 471, 472 
Ski, 335, 450, 462, 482 
Skraellings (natives of America), 45, 
46 n., 49, 50 
Sledge dogs, 17, 337, 338, 354, 355; 
in Antarctic, 462, 472, 482, 483; 
Greenland, 23 
— flags, Nares's expedition, 304 ; 
Scott's, 450 
— journeys, Arctic contrasted with 
Antarctic, 459, 460 ; Aldrich's, 
307, 308; Amundsen's, 483; 
Amundsen's party, 315; Beau- 
mont's, 308, 309; Danish, 371 et 
seq.; Hamilton's, 268; Hayes's, 
299; Lockwood's, 318; M'Clin- 
tock's, 249, 250, 266, 274 et seq. t 
356; Markham's, 307; Mecham's, 
267, 356; Mecham's great, 270; 
Payer's, 283, 289; Peary's, 356; 
Rae's, 231; Ross's, 235, 237; 
Scott's first expedition, 458, 463, 
465, 471, 472; Scott's last expe- 
dition, 494, 498; Sverdrup's, 348; 
Allen Young's, 276 
provisions for, M'Clintock's, 
256, 258, 259; Ross's, 249; Scott's, 
462, 494 
— travel, rate of, 23, 356; Aldrich's, 
308; Amundsen's, 484, 485; 
