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
Rawson, Lieutenant Wyatt, R.N., joins the "Alert" from the "Discovery,"
108;
visits Distant Cape, 110;
glees by, 169;
parts taken in theatricals by, 174, 214;
skill in tabogganing, 187;
visit to snow hut built by, 212;
accompanies Egerton on journey to "Discovery," 247;
his efforts to save Petersen, 249 to 254;
arrives from "Discovery," 346.
Rawson Cape, 219, 343.
Records left at Cape Isabella, 57;
in cairn on Hannah Island, 101;
at extreme northern point, 312;
at Cairn Point (winter quarters), 341.
Reindeer, Port Foulke, 52;
traces, 60;
scarce near Egedesminde, 365.
Retrospect on New Year's day, 197.
Reward for crossing 83rd parallel, 292 (_n._).
Richardson Bay, 99.
Right whales, 21.
Rink, Dr., on the Eskimo, 33.
Ritenbenk, expedition at, 34.
Road-making on the ice, 273, 275, 277, 279, 286, 292, 294.
Robeson Channel, 69;
view of, 110;
position on American chart not to be recognized, 115;
palæocrystic floes of, 118;
examination of fiords, 242.
Rorqual whale, 21.
Ross, Sir John, Arctic highlanders of, 48;
red snow, 48.
Rotges, or little auks, 46, 50, 360.
Royal Arctic Theatre, 169, 170;
prologue, 172;
plays, 173, 214.
Rudder, arrangement for unshipping, 3;
head damaged, 67;
unshipped for a nip, 83;
seriously injured, 113;
shifted, 113;
frequent necessity for unshipping, 344;
head badly wrenched, 344, 351.
Sabine, Cape, 55, 57, 59;
Eskimo remains on, 69;
passed, going south, 356.
Sails for sledges, 231 (_n._).
"Sallie" suspected of robbing Rawson's depôt, 213.
(_See_ Dogs.)
Salt beef, character of, 154.
"Sanderson, his hope," shooting looms at, 40.
Sanitary condition of the men in winter quarters, 187.
Saxifrage, 57, 74, 340.
Scenery of Greenland, 24;
from Disco, 31;
in Disco Bay, 35;
in the Waigat, 36;
near Cape York, 48, 50;
of the glaciers, 60;
off Cape Hawks, 83;
at winter quarters, 126;
at the extreme northern point, 310, 311.
School in winter quarters, 165, 166;
last assemblage of, 213.
Scientific observations in winter quarters, 180.
Scoresby on the size of the rorqual, 21.
Scoresby Bay, 94.
Scurvy, 237;
premonitory symptoms, 284, 285;
dread of, 299;
increasing symptoms, 303, 304, 305, 313;
decrease of appetite, 314;
extreme weakness, 317;
outbreak on board the "Alert," 321;
true causes of the outbreak, 329, 330;
cure of patients, 333, 339, 345;
patients convalescent, 365;
outbreak in sledge crews of "Discovery," 346.
Seals basking on the ice, 24, 45;
shot by Hans, 354.
Selection of officers and men for Arctic service, 4.
Self, James, A.B., H.M.S. "Alert," songs by, 216.
Shells, marine, found above sea-level, 116.
Shift-Rudder Bay, 114.
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