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
Icebergs first sighted, 22;
constantly seen, 23;
in Disco Bay, 32, 34;
danger from, in the Waigat, 38;
indicate shoal water, 60;
danger from, off Albert Head, 65;
ships endangered by, 91;
number decreasing, 96;
innumerable, 359.
Independence, Cape, of Kane, 98.
Insects collected, 351.
Isabella, Cape, 356, 357;
Captain Markham lands at, 56, 57, 95;
letters at, 358.
Itivdliarsuk glacier, 36.
Ivory gull, 46, 50, 101.
Jacobshavn, glacier of, 32.
John Barrow, Cape, 93.
Jolliffe, Thos., petty officer, H.M.S. "Alert," in N. division sledge
party, holds out to the end, 326 (_n._).
Joseph Henry, Cape, 127;
Aldrich starts for, in the autumn, 136;
depôt near, 147;
dog "Sallie" lost at, 190;
arrival of sledges at, 263;
floes off, 282;
encamped abreast of, 285;
description of, 285;
northern division of sledges reaches, 321;
last seen, 343.
Kane, Dr., his open polar sea, 72, 98, 360.
Kardluk Point, in the Waigat, 36.
Kayak, difficulty of using, 30;
adventure of Mr. Wootton, 30;
Eskimo pilot in, 43.
Kennedy Channel crossed, 103;
musk-oxen on east side of, 103.
"Kew," magnetic observatory at winter quarters so called, 154.
Kew Observatory, thermometer tested at, 223.
King ducks, 50, 332.
Knapsacks, sledging, contents, 235, 236.
Knots, seen and secured at Distant Cape, 110.
Lady Franklin Inlet, 103, 111.
Lafayette Bay (of Kane), 98, 99.
Lancaster Sound, geology, 67;
remains of Eskimo on shores of, 68;
"Alert" off mouth of, 360.
Lemmings, traces of, 107;
description, 115, 116;
eaten by "Nellie," 212;
traces away from the land, 278.
Letters at Cape Isabella, 358;
at Godhavn, 363;
at Littleton Island, 358, 362.
Lieber, Cape, 102.
Lievely, 26.
(_See_ Godhavn.)
Life-boat Cove, visit to, 53.
Light, lecture on, by Lieut. Parr, R.N., 169;
return of, 207, 225.
Lime-juice, regular daily issue of, 16;
impossibility of using, while in a frozen state, away sledging, 238;
taken on the sledges by Commander Markham and Lieut. Parr, 238;
served out to sledge crew by Commander Markham, 305;
useless unless the whole volume is thawed, 305;
its use in the treatment of scurvy, 329;
used on all sledge journeys when its use was possible, 330.
Lincoln Bay, 115;
coast between, and Cape Union, 121;
depôt, 117, 248.
_Little Vulgar Boy_, play acted by the officers, 214.
Littleton Island, visit of Captain Nares and Commander Markham to, 53,
55;
not visited, going south, 358;
mail at, 358, 362.
Looms (_see_ Birds), 40, 41.
Loom soup, 40.
Louis Napoleon, Cape, Eskimo remains at, 69;
passed by the ships, 90.
Lyngenmarkfjeld, in Disco, ascent of, 31.
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