Expedition, its objective point, opening scenes of the voyage, starting point, _Polaris_, 4 the ship, its decks, its quarters, regrets at leaving, 4 personnel of the party, 4–9 notice to members, 9 environment of, 9–11 time of starting, 11 course after leaving Domino Run, 17 southern sub-base, 34–35 preparation for wintering, 59, 60, 61 quartered at Hecla, subsistence, 98 arrival at Etah, 259 United States Lady Franklin Bay records, 312 return to New York, results of, 280, 281 Lady Franklin Bay, 286, 288 Explorer, the true, ix Fielden Peninsula, 177, 339 Fire, 15 Flags, 135 Flipper, square, 250 Floes, velocity of, see Ice heavy floes in rapid motion, see Ice big blue, see Ice blue-topped, see Ice blue hummock kind, see Ice 8–10 miles diameter, 258 driven ashore, see Ice Floeberg, 20 to 28 feet above the water, see Ice and paleocrystic ice, origin of, 333 birthplace of, 326 Flowers at Cape Aldrich, 231 in bloom, 211 Fog, 203, 219, dense, 17, 19, 199, 201 feeling way through the straits, 16 on uplands of peninsula, 301 extinguishes trail, 215 “Fog eater,” fog bow, 200 Fort Conger, 36 door of, 307 site of, 40 Fragments of floes, see Ice _Fram_, S.S., 362, 363 Fossils in the rocks, 234 Foulke Fiord, mouth of, 297 _Fox_, Danish steamship, 22 Gale, October 16th, 63 Game score, 62 secured, 314 Gateway, American, 50 _Gauss_, S.S., 362, 363 Getting ready for rough water, 269 Gifford Peak, 232 Glacier, character of glacial fringe, 189 Tossuketek, 20 Heilprin, 25 Melville, 25 Petowik, 22 Tracy, 26 Snout, see Ice composed of hummock ice, 228 Glaciers at head of Sawyer Bay, view from, see Ice true characteristics, see Ice Disco Bay, see Ice Glacial fringe, 181 interesting to glacialists, 240 surface of, 191 clay, 200 Gravel, appearance of, 204 reached, 215 Gray dog, 227 “Great day,” in border land of, 18 “Great Ice,” see Ice “Great Night,” 17 preparation for, 305 Greely party (1883), 6 Godhavn, Capital of Northern Inspectorate of Greenland; under Cliffs of Disco, 20 “Grand Canal,” 345 Granite erratic at Cape Aldrich, 231 Grant Land, 63 coast of 190, western shore, 202 Greenland, 16 Mts., snow-clad summit, 147 shore of, trip given up, 311 caribou, 351 Grinnell Land, coast of, 299 shore of unbroken ice, 36 Guillemot, Brunnich’s, flying south, 18 in the water, 19 Gull, skua, 187, 195 Burgomaster, 196 Hall Basin, western portion packed with ice, 39 Hamilton Fish Peak, 234 Harbour, Battle, 16 outside of, 12 Discovery, 250, 307; winter quarters of _Discovery_, 40 Payer, 337 Repulse, 43, 165 Thank God, winter quarters of Hall’s _Polaris_, 40 Hayes, 4 Point, 35, 334 halt south of, 319 Hecla, 178 Hebron, Labrador coast, 271