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
Dogs, Eskimo, 29, 38, 78, 79;
disease, 79;
wailing, 88;
habits, 130;
sledging, 80, 81, 128;
dog "Sallie" lost and found, 190, 191;
alarm of during winter, 199;
nearly steal musk-ox beef, 207;
alarm caused by, 210;
regularly fed, 210;
team sent with sledge to "Discovery," 247, 255;
trouble with, 253.
(_See_ Bruin, Sallie, Flo, Nellie.)
Dovekies, 50, 101, 115.
Draba, 57, 340.
Dredging, 25, 73, 102.
Driftwood, 112.
Drip. (_See_ Snow.)
Drip, inconvenience of, in winter, 182.
Ducks. (_See_ Birds.)
Dumb-bell Bay, 131.
Dundas Harbour, remains of Eskimos at, 68.
D'Urville, Cape, passed, 83.
Edinburgh, H.R.H. the Duke of, visit to Arctic ships, 8.
Egedesminde, offer of coals at, 363;
expedition at, 364, 365.
Egerton, Lieut. George Le Clerc, R.N., officer of the watch when the
ship touched the first ice, 22;
starts on autumn travelling, 133;
stage manager of the Royal Arctic Theatre, 171;
parts taken by, 174, 214;
sails his sledge, 231 (_n._);
sent to open communication with "Discovery," 247;
his efforts to save Petersen, 249 to 254;
second start for the "Discovery," 255;
sent to the "Discovery," 345.
Eider ducks, 131, 360.
Electricity, observations on, 180.
Ellesmere Land, 50.
Eskimo, Frederic, 29, 128;
Hans Hendrick, 39, 48, 354;
pilot, 42.
(_See_ Dogs.)
Eskimos, 33;
at Proven, 38;
Cape York, 48;
Etah, 52;
traces of, in Payer Harbour, 58;
in Twin-glacier Bay, 61, 62;
wanderings, 67, 69;
Admiral Sherard Osborn and Mr. Clements Markham on wanderings of, 68,
69;
remains on Capes Sabine, Hilgard, Louis Napoleon, Hayes, Fraser,
shores of Buchanan Strait, Radmore Harbour, and Bellot Isle, 69;
at Admiralty Inlet and Dundas Harbour, 68;
at Cape Beechey, 69, 347;
in Whale Sound, 359.
Etah, native village, 52, 69.
Eugénie, H.I.H. the Empress, present of woollen caps from, 7, 236, 239,
287;
visits the Arctic ships, 8.
Exercise during winter, 181, 187;
for sledging crews, 227, 228.
Falcon, 362.
Farewell banquets, 8;
to the expedition at Portsmouth, 9, 10, 11;
to the "Valorous," 35.
Farewell Cape, 19, 23, 69.
Feilden, Captain, naturalist, H.M.S. "Alert," ascends hill above
Bessels Bay, 101;
visits Distant Cape, 110;
his lecture on geology, 169;
picks up skulls in Rawlings Bay, 352.
(_See_ Naturalist.)
Ferbrache, Wm., sledge crew, N. division, symptoms of scurvy, 306.
Figure-heads of the Arctic ships, 4.
Finner whale, 20.
Fire, precautions against, fire-hole, 160, 161;
alarm of, 226.
Fishing on the Torske bank, 25.
Fiskernaes, expedition off, 24.
Fitting out the expedition, 1 to 8.
"Flo," Eskimo dog, met with adrift, near Cape Joseph Henry, 323.
Floes. (_See_ Ice.)
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