Petersen, Danish dog-driver, autumn travelling, 128, 129; starts for "Discovery," 248; frost-bitten, 248; efforts to save his life, 248 to 254; brought back to the ship, 254; death of, 255, 321. Petowick glacier, 48. Photographing at Godhavn, 31. Pinkey and Collins' patent topsails, 3. Plants, 31, 57, 60, 74, 107. (_See_ Vegetation.) Plays. (_See_ Theatricals.) Play-bills, 173, 175, 176, 214. Plymouth, visit from Commander-in-Chief, 11. Polar Ocean, 122, 128, 215, 234, 242; Parry's attempt to sledge over, 243 (_n._); march of the northern division over, 276, 311 (_see_ Hummocks), 285, 301; young ice, 296. Polaris Bay, 100; state of lime-juice found in, 305; sledge-crew recruiting at, 346, 349. "Polaris," visit to her second winter quarters, 53, 54; her cruise, 72; Dr. Bessels of, 92, 99; land seen from, 101; musk-ox shot by crew of, 106; Eskimo kind to crew of, 360. Polarization of light, observations, 180. "Poppie," H.M. sledge, Lieut. Giffard, 217, 259. Poppies, 57, 74. Popular entertainments in winter quarters, 168, 169; programmes, 175, 176. Portsmouth Dockyard, ships fitting out at, 1; harbour, departure of expedition from, 9, 10; return to, 368. Potentillas, 340. Prayers, 187. (_See_ Divine service.) Presents to the expedition, 6, 7, 193, 194. President Land has no existence, 101. Prince Patrick Island, heavy pack on west coast of, 200. Prince Regent Inlet, formation of cliffs, 64, 67. Printing office in winter quarters, 164, 165; prospectus, 164; bills of fare, 185. Prologue, Royal Arctic Theatre, 172, 173. Protococcus nivalis, 48. Proven, arrival at, 38; survey of, 39. Provisions for sledging, weight, 233; scale, 237. Ptarmigan, 225. Pullen, Rev. W. H., chaplain, H.M.S. "Alert," glees by, 216; lecture on Arctic plants, 169; author of the prologue, 171, 172, 176; leads the choir, 187; Christmas bill of fare by, 196; lines on the New Year by, 202; a burlesque operetta written by, 214; grand chorus composed by, 216; service on departure of sledges, 258, 259; lines welcoming return of sledges by, 336. Queenstown, rendezvous at, 367. Radmore, John, chief carpenter's mate, H.M.S. "Alert," sledge crew in northern division, holds out against scurvy, 318; to the last, 326 (_n._). Radmore Harbour, Eskimo's remains at, 69. Rainbow, 325. Rawlings, Thos., petty officer, H.M.S. "Alert," captain of sledge, northern division, attacked by scurvy, 306. Rawlings Bay, 352.