Colgate, Jas. C., 290, 356 Columbia, 181 twin peaks of, its ascent begun, 182 Commander Peary’s reply to President Roosevelt, ix Conger, 335 Copies of records from cairns, 286 Cosmic boundaries, xi Cracks, closing of, 125 Crew and firemen, see personnel of the party under Expedition Crossed second glacier, see Ice Crozier Island, 340 Cumberland Sound, 270 Darling, Judge, Asst. Secy. of the Navy, 11, 356 Daylight, disappearing, 302 Deer, track in the snow, 204 development of dew claws, length of hoofs, 205 numerous in Western Land, 205–8 skins, 227 Delta, Boat Camp, 43 Diet, preserved eggs and mush, 206 Dennis and Mike, 12 Disk, sun’s, 55 _Diana_, S.S., despatched to Etah, 315, 316 Distant Cape, 250 _Discovery_, S.S., 363 Dix, Capt., builder of the _Roosevelt_, 68 Capt. Chas. B., 280, 356 Dogs, deaths of, 79 killed, 132 the gray, 155 number of survivors, 174 their diet changed from pemmican, 205 maimed from ice, 227 the white, 229 twelve left, 309 heard from the shore, 17 additional number purchased, 29 food, sent to Cape Sabine, 317 Dobbin Bay, 298 Dory, sent to Cape Louis Napoleon, 310 Drift Point, 322 Domino Run, 16 lying to, letters left, length of stay—fall of the fog, 17 Dome Cape, 325 _Eagle_, S.S., used in Arctic exploration of 1886, 6 Ellesmere Land, 314 Episodes, 36 _Erik_, S.S., 287, 289, 335 getting aboard, 22 alongside the _Roosevelt_, 29 her arrival at Etah, 29 Harbour, 336 _Ermack_, Russian S.S., 362 Eskimo dog, x Eskimo, settlement, village, 21 families, 93 natives taken on board, 25 dogs and supplies held in readiness, 26 busy at work, 29 prosperity of natives, 30 hunting party sent out, 46, 49 parties sent out for musk-oxen, return from Black Cliffs Bay, making sledges, 56 settlements in the interior, 77 their excitement, 88 most northerly born babe, 93 sent to form cache, 102 Eskimos, report of rafted ice, 102 as trailers, 140–1 their temperament, 146 at their meal of musk-oxen, 161 sent into Cape Bryant region, 163 dismissed until homeward voyage, 173 sent overland for skins, 253 physical characteristics, 375 return of, 320, 312, 299 their origin, their inquisitiveness, 375 as imitators, 376 their training, their vocabulary, 379 significance to them of celestial bodies, 380 gauges for time and location, 380 sense of humour, 381 their ingenuity in ornamentation, 381, 382 staple food of, ideas of cleanliness, 386 matrimonial arrangement, as regards morals, 387 their death ceremony, 388 their amusements, 389 their religious beliefs, 389 how useful to the world, 390 Etah, rendezvous at, 297, 315