The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"Markham, Albert Hastings, Sir
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The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"
Markham, Albert Hastings, Sir
Alert (Sloop : 1856-1895); Arctic regions; Nares, George S. (George Strong), 1831-1915
Cold, extreme, 208, 222, 224.
(_See_ Temperature.)
Collinson, Cape, 94.
Cook, while sledging, 235, 265.
Cooking apparatus, weight, 233;
description, 235.
Copenhagen, letters sent out from, 363.
Coppinger, Dr., H.M.S. "Discovery," state of lime-juice found by, in
Polaris Bay, 305;
journey with Lieut. Beaumont, 346.
Cress. (_See_ Mustard and Cress.)
Crimson cliffs of Beverley, 48.
Crinoids dredged up, 73.
Crow's-nest, description, 3;
Captain Nares constantly in, 66;
a cold berth, 98.
Crozier Island passed, 98.
Crustaceans dredged up at the extreme northern point, 309.
Cryolite mine in Greenland, 20.
Crystal Palace Glacier, 50.
Dancing at Christmas, 197;
old year, 204.
Darkness, approach of, 127;
in sledge travelling, 141;
in winter, 178, 182;
monotony of, 207.
Davis, John, musicians in the expedition of, 8;
gave name to Cape Desolation, 22, 23.
Davis Strait, 18, 19, 20.
Daylight. (_See_ Light.)
Deaths. (_See_ Petersen, Porter, "Discovery.")
Depôts on Cary Isles, 49;
Cape Isabella, 56;
Dobbin Bay, 85, 353;
Cape Collinson, 95;
Cape Morton, 102;
Lincoln Bay, 117, 248;
Floe-berg Beach, 122, 124;
near Cape Joseph Henry, 147, 149, 263, 321;
to southward of Floe Berg Beach for "Discovery" sledges, 255;
for sledge parties, 234.
"Deptford," snow storehouse so called, 154.
Desolation, Cape, 22.
Diptera, 351.
Disco, 6, 18, 34, 358, 362;
tradition of, 33, 34;
view from hills of, 31.
(_See_ Godhavn.)
Disco Bay, 31.
"Discovery," H.M.S., 95;
departure from Portsmouth, 9;
commencement of voyage, 15;
sighted off Greenland coast, 25;
towed by the "Alert," 41;
following, 45;
sent to communicate with natives at Cape York, 48;
at Port Foulke, 56;
perilous position, 65;
grounds off Cape Louis Napoleon, 90;
in great danger, 91;
blown from her anchors, 95;
lands a depôt at Cape Morton, 100;
in harbour, 104;
winter quarters of, 107;
sledge crew from, joins the "Alert," 108;
theatre on board, 174;
a health to, 217;
depôts laid out for sledges of, 227;
work of sledge parties, 242;
arrangement for opening communication with, from "Alert," 246, 255;
to return to England, 330;
joined by "Alert," 344, 345;
scurvy among crew of, 346;
two deaths, 346;
rendezvous at Queenstown, 367.
Discovery Harbour, 104, 106, 112;
"Alert" arrives at, 347.
Distant, Cape, walk to, 110;
"Alert" passes, 112.
Divine service, 187;
on Christmas day, 195;
before sledges start, 258, 259.
Dobbin Bay, 83, 86;
depôt at, 84, 353.
Dock cut in the ice at Dobbin Bay, 86.
Dockyard. (_See_ Portsmouth.)
Dog-driver. (_See_ Petersen.)
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