March, distance covered, 200 from S. W. Camp, 213, 214 plan of, 153 the first, 131 the last outward, 139 Mascart Inlet, 148 Medical College (Cornell University), 6 Meigs Fiord, 325 Melville Bay, 4, 362 Moons (winter), duration, 77 Moraine material, camp on, 219 Mount, Camel, 178 Cheops, 63 Daly (red-brown bluffs of), 26 Saddle, 178 Streaked, 178 Twin, 178 Wistar, 328 Mountains, Greenland, 19 Musk-oxen, 35, 60, 142, 181, 300 cows, 182 killing of, 154, 333 tracks in the snow, 204 twenty-one killed, 320 Murphy, John, boatswain, see personnel of the party under Expedition, 5 Mystery of the North, xi Nain, 272 Nansen, 126 Nansen’s Strait, 202 Nordenskjold Inlet, 324 Nares Land, 150 Narksami, 266 Narwhal, 250 school of, 43 National Geographic Society, vii Hubbard Medal of, vii Natives, property of, see Eskimos report of Melville Bay, 269 taken on board, see Eskimos Navy Department, leave of absence granted Com. Peary, 295 _Neptune_, Canadian Government Steamer, 4 Newfoundland, ice, pilots, 5 Newman Bay, 321 New land, 195 Nicaragua, 6 North Coast Mts., 330 North Pole, value of attainment, x Norwegians, 359 and Americans, 360 Nungwoodie, the gray dog, 228 Observatory Pinnacle, 118 Observation Camp, 214 with sextant and transit, 117 Old floes, see ice Omens, of the ship’s position, 74 Onkilon, Siberian tribe, 375 Ooming-muksue (musk-oxen), 154 Oomunui, 266 Oatah, 141 Open leads, region of, 132 Open water, 92, 331, 342 see “big lead,” 143 alongside of the ice-foot, 181 in shape of leads and lakes, 74 its extent, 97 Orography of the glacial fringe, 231 Outward track, impracticable, 210 “Paleocrystic” floes, 228 Panama, Stars and Stripes planted, xi Panikpah, 145 Panther, 4 Payer Harbour, 335, 337 Pemmican, 78, 186 supply exhausted, 227 Peninsula, Bache, 34 Percy, Chas., steward, see personnel of the party under Expedition Peary Arctic Club, ix, 282 contributors to, 290 founders of, 288 history of, 285 incorporators of, 289 its officers, 286 its charter, 288 object of, 285 organisation of, 286 Personnel of the party on return, 276, 279 Petersen, Danish interpreter, 55 Piblocto, 384 Plan accomplished, 182 Point Armour Light, 16 Point Moss, 178 20 miles west of Cape Hecla, 97 Polar, ocean, x middle pack, 20 Polar pack, 331, 340 contest with, 341, 342 gateway to the Polar sea, 63 mystery, ix, 17 Sea, 4, 102, 332 _Polaris_, left by Hall’s party, 43 boat camp, 321 Poppies, at Cape Aldrich, 231 Potentilla, growing at Cape Aldrich, 231 Pot Rocks, coast of Labrador, 271 Pressure ridges, 129, 143 Primus stoves, 215 Programme, for spring work, 318 Ptarmigan, 196 Pumice and slag, 213 Rafters and rubble, see Ice, of Alpine character, 144 Rainbow Hill, 185 Rangifer Pearyi, 351 Grænlandicus, 351