Index 
535 
Hamilton's, 265 ; M'Clintock's, 
260, 266, 269 ; Mecham's, 265 ; 
Payer's, 283; Peary's, 338; 
Rasmussen's, 380; Scott's first 
expedition, 464, 472, 475 
Sledges, Tchuktches, 17; Eskimo, 
234; Greenland, 23; M'Clintock's, 
256; Russian, 176; Samoyed, 
14; Wrangell's, 181 
— dimensions of, 292; Cook's, 354; 
Nansen's, 334, 342; Peary's, 333; 
Scott's, 450, 460, 472; Shackle- 
ton's, 478 
— hauling-gear, 462 
— loads for, 23, 176; M'Clintock's, 
265; Scott's, 472; Shackleton's, 
479 
— motor, 490, 497 
— of Franklin's retreat, 245 ; of 
Hearne's expedition, 168 
Sledging equipment, Hearne's, 168; 
Nansen's, 334; Ross's, 256; Sver- 
drup's, 348 ; Wrangell's, 182 ; 
Scott's, 450 
Sleeping bags, 460, 478 
Sleipner (Odin's horse), 31 
Smallpox devastates Greenland, 162 
Smeerenburg, 127, 128, 174, 360; 
abandoned, 188 
Smith, Sir Thomas, 105, 106, 113, 
129, 142 
Smith Channel, 265, 347 
Smith Sound, 317; route by, 298 et 
seq.; U.S. expedition to, 317 et 
seq. 
Snow, crimson, 202, 253 
Snow Hill Island, 436 
Snow huts of Eskimos, 20 
Snow-shoes, 168,335; of Tchuktches, 
17 
Sobral, Lieut., 436 
Societies' Antarctic Expedition, The, 
444 et seq., 455 et seq., 466 et seq., 
471 et seq.; Committee of, 446 
Sofia, 366 
Sophia, 251, 296, 332 
Sounding apparatus, deep sea, 426 
Soundings, deep sea, 427 et seq., 440 
South Georgia, 393, 396, 402, 436 
South Magnetic Pole, 417, 475, 480, 
481 
South Orkneys, 400, 439, 440 
South Shetlands, 398, 401, 422 etseq., 
434, 436, 438 
South Polar Times, 459, 496 
Southampton Island, 166 
Southern Cross, 433 
Speedivell, Scoresby's, 191 
— Wood's, 156; wrecked, 157 
"Speksioneer," 190 
Speyer, Sir Edgar, 489 
Spitsbergen, 105, 117, 188, 317, 361; 
birds of, 121; called "Greenland," 
n8, 124; coal in, 350; Conway's 
books on, 362; described by 
Scoresby, 119, i2r; description 
of, 128; discovered, 74; explora- 
tions in, 285 et seq.; fauna of, 119, 
121, 128; icebergs, 9; map of, 120; 
scenery of, 119, 121; visited by 
Baffin, 116; first visited by Dutch, 
124; claimed by Christian IV, 
124; Dutch despatch second fleet 
to, 126; English first winter in, 
128; Muscovy Company despatch 
fleet to, 124; Russian expeditions 
to, 187 
Stanmore church, 108 
Staten Island, 389, 396, 401 
Stations for synchronous observa- 
tions, 316 
Steller, Georg Wilhelm, 178 
Stone, William, 106 
Stone huts, 21 
Storms, magnetic, 417 
Story of the Alabama Expedition, 379 
Sukkertoppen (the modern) , 115, 
116, 163; Old, 97 
Sulphur brought from Iceland, 150 
Sunshine, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100 
Superb, 240 
Svarteva?g, 349, 354* 
Sverdrup, Otto, 335, 341 et seq,, 347 
Swan, 69, 72 
Swedish expeditions, to Antarctic, 435 
et seq., 506; to Spitsbergen, 286 et 
seq. 
Sweepstakes, 156 
Synchronous observations, Ant- 
arctic, 420, 451; plan for, 316; 
Ross's, 414 
Tahiti, visited by Cook, 395 
Taimyr, Cape, 323 
Taimyr Peninsula discovered, 177 
Taylor, Mr Griffith, 491 
Tchuktches, 16, 17, 170, 175, 325 
Tegethoff, 289, 297 
Temperatures, 315; Antarctic, 471, 
473, 474, 496, 50T, 502; deep sea, 
427; lowest registered, 16 
Tennyson's epitaph on Sir John 
Franklin, 243 
Tents of Tchuktches, 17 
"Terra Australis," 391, 396 
Terra Nova, 476, 483, 489 et seq.; 
surveys New Zealand waters, 493, 
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