Chapter XL: Appendix: III

_Report of the sub-committee of the National Geographic Society on Peary's Records, and Some of the Honors Awarded for the Attainment of the Pole._

The Board of Managers of the National Geographic Society at a meeting held at Hubbard Memorial Hall, November 4, 1909, received the following report:

"The sub-committee to which was referred the task of examining the records of Commander Peary in evidence of his having reached the North Pole, beg to report that they have completed their task.

"Commander Peary has submitted to his sub-committee his original journal and record of observations, together with all his instruments and apparatus, and certain of the most important of the scientific results of his expedition. These have been carefully examined by your sub-committee, and they are unanimously of the opinion that Commander Peary reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909.

"They also feel warranted in stating that the organization, planning, and management of the expedition, its complete success, and its scientific results, reflect the greatest credit on the ability of Commander Robert E. Peary, and render him worthy of the highest honors that the National Geographic Society can bestow upon him."

(_Signed_) HENRY GANNETT.[11]
C. M. CHESTER.[12]
O. H. TITTMANN.[13]

The foregoing report was unanimously approved.

Immediately after this action the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

"_Whereas_, Commander Robert E. Peary has reached the North Pole, the goal sought for centuries; and

"_Whereas_, this is the greatest geographical achievement that this society can have opportunity to honor: Therefore

"_Resolved_, that a special medal be awarded to Commander Peary."

* * * * *

Among the home and foreign honors awarded for the attainment of the pole are the following:

The Special Great Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society of
Washington.

The Special Gold Medal of the Philadelphia Geographical Society.

The Helen Culver Medal of the Chicago Geographical Society.

The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Bowdoin College.

The Special Great Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of
London.

The Nachtigall Gold Medal of the Imperial German Geographical Society.

The King Humbert Gold Medal of the Royal Italian Geographical Society.

The Hauer Medal of the Imperial Austrian Geographical Society.

The Gold Medal of the Hungarian Geographical Society.

The Gold Medal of the Royal Belgian Geographical Society.

The Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp.

[14]A Special Trophy from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society--a
replica in silver of the ships used by Hudson, Baffin, and Davis.

The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the Edinburgh University.

Honorary Membership in the Manchester Geographical Society.

Honorary Membership in the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society of
Amsterdam.

(This medal is four inches in diameter)]

(Designed by the wife of Captain Robert F. Scott, R. N., Leader of the British South Polar Expeditions of 1901-1904 and 1910-1912)]

FOOTNOTES:

[11] HENRY GANNETT, _chairman of the committee_ which reported on Commander Peary's observations, has been chief geographer of the United States Geological Survey since 1882; he is the author of "Manual of Topographic Surveying," "Statistical Atlases of the Tenth and Eleventh Censuses," "Dictionary of Altitudes," "Magnetic Declination in the United States," Stanford's "Compendium of Geography," and of many government reports. Mr. Gannett is vice-president of the National Geographic Society and was one of the founders of the society in 1888.

[12] _Rear-Admiral_ COLBY M. CHESTER, _United States Navy_, was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1863. He has held practically every important command under the Navy Department, including superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, commander-in-chief Atlantic Squadron, Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, Chief Hydrographic Division, United States Navy. Admiral Chester has been known for many years as one of the best and most particular navigators in the service.

[13] O. H. TITTMANN has been Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey since 1900. He is the member for the United States of the Alaskan Boundary Commission and was one of the founders of the National Geographic Society.

[14] At Edinburgh, at the conclusion of the address to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Lord Balfour of Burleigh presented to Commander Peary a silver model of a ship such as was used by illustrious arctic navigators in the olden times. The ship is a copy of a three-masted vessel in full sail, such as was in use in the latter part of the sixteenth century. The model is a beautiful specimen of the silversmith's art. On one of the sails is engraved the badge of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, while another bears the inscription in Latin from the pen of Mr. W. B. Blaikie, which, translated, is as follows:

"This model of a ship, such as was used by John Davis, Henry Hudson, and William Baffin, illustrious arctic navigators of the olden time, has been presented by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society as an evidence of its congratulation, admiration, and recognition to Robert Edwin Peary, American citizen, an explorer of the frozen Arctic, not less daring than his daring predecessors, who was the first to attain to that thrice-noble goal so long sought by innumerable bold mariners, the North Pole. Edinburgh, May 24th, 1910."

INDEX

_Advance_, S.S., xxii.

Africa, 75.

Aground, 113.

Ahteah, 131.

Ahtetah, 178.

Ahwatingwah, 141, 235.

Akatingwah, 60.

Alarm of fire, 35.

Alaska, 344, 345.

Aldrich, xxiii.

_Alert_, S.S., 91, 129, 184.

Aletah, 117, 141.

Alps, 166.

American, flag, 30, 294, 296, 335;
route, 5.

Amundsen, Roald, xxi.

Amusements, 109, 181.

Andree, xxvi.

Angakok, 65.

Anniversary Lodge, 130.

Anoratok, 55, 76, 333.

Antarctic, xx.

"Antarctica," 180.

"Antarctic Regions, The," 180.

Arco, 141, 213, 235.

Arctic, Archipelago, 341, 344;
Circle, xvi;
(crossing the, 36), 53, 79, 186;
fisheries, xv;
hares, 54, 110, 127, 138, 182, 189, 315;
moon, 163;
night, 37;
Ocean, 4, 49, 193, 216, 337-344.

Asia, xvi, 75.

Associated Press, 334.

Astronomical observations, 211.

Astrup, xxix.

Atlantic Ocean, xx, xxi, 343.

Aurora, 186.

Austrian-Hungarian expedition, xxvii.

Back River, xx.

Baffin Bay, xxi, xxvii, 3, 88, 90, 341-343.

Baffin, William, xxvii.

Balch, 180.

Bald Head, 33.

Balfour, Lord, 365.

Banks Land, 346.

Barents, William, xv, xxvii.

Barnes, John, 23, 167, 326.

Barometer reading, 348.

Bartlett, Robert, 76.

Bartlett, Capt. Robert A., appreciation of, 269;
career, 19, 20;
decorating the ship, 130;
delayed by leads, 308, 312;
departure from _Roosevelt_, 213;
despatch to his mother, 334;
dynamiting the ice, 115;
facsimile of certificate, 360, 361;
facsimile of observations, 359;
farthest north, 267;
hunting, 141, 179, 182, 191;
in crow's nest, 105;
master of the _Roosevelt_, 23, 111, 326;
pioneer division, 203, 205, 214, 237, 241;
returning to _Roosevelt_, 325;
sounding, 262;
taking observations, 266, 268;
trail, 310, 314.

Bartlett, Capt. Sam, 76.

Bathurst, Cape, 345.

Battle Harbor, 332, 334.

Bay, Baffin, xxi, xxvii, 3, 88, 90, 341-343;
Black Cliffs, 130, 179;
Cape York, 55;
Casco, 27;
Dobbin, 99;
Independence, xxix, 151, 276;
James Ross, 143, 144, 155, 179;
Lady Franklin, 78, 329;
Lincoln, 98, 106, 110, 112, 117, 118;
McCormick, xxix;
Melville, 36, 37, 39, 40, 53;
Newman, 188;
North Star, 38, 73;
of Fundy, 168;
of Naples, 74;
Oyster, 26;
Porter, 118, 120, 134, 140, 142, 143, 276;
Princess Marie, 100;
Robertson, 74;
Teplitz, 345.

Beaufort Sea, 345.

Beaumont Island, 337.

Beechey, Cape, 90.

Belknap, Cape, 134, 138, 188.

Benedict, H. H., 31.

Bennett Island, 344-346

Bently, James, 23, 326

Bering, Sea, xvii, xx, xxi;
Strait, xxi, 290.

"Big Lead," crossed, 232, 314;
described, 197, 237;
Eskimos' fear of, 191.

Black Cape, 118, 119;
River, 120.

Black Cliffs Bay, 130, 179.

Blackwell's Island, 25, 26.

Booth, Felix, xviii, xix.

Boothia Felix, xix.

Borchgrevink, 180.

Borup, Col., 29.

Borup, George, account of walrus hunting, 80-87;
added to expedition, 21;
built monument at Cape Columbia, 325;
captured musk-ox calf, 330;
career, 22;
celebrating, 184;
delayed by leads, 312;
deposited cache at Cape Fanshawe Martin, 325;
division, 203, 214, 237, 241;
farthest north, 243;
hunting, 141, 156, 179, 188, 330;
return to _Roosevelt_, 325;
taking observations, 168;
turned back, 243.

Bowdoin College, xxviii, 296;
degree of LL.D., 365.

Box houses, 123, 177, 178, 188.

Brainard, xxiii, 337.

Breton, Cape, 28.

Brevoort, Cape, 188;
Island, 90.

Bridgman, Herbert L., 16, 25, 27, 334.

British Arctic expedition, 38, 129.

Bryant, Cape, 168, 188, 190, 191, 330-348.

By-pass, 101, 104.

Cabot Strait, 35.

Cache of supplies, 110, 119, 191.

Cagni, xxvi.

Cairn, _Alert_, 129;
_Roosevelt_, 129.

Camp, Abruzzi, 308;
Morris K. Jesup, 290;
No. 4, 237;
No. 5, 237;
No. 8, 327;
No. 11, 310;
No. 19, 249.

Canada, xx, 334, 335.

Cantilever, 55.

Cape, Bathurst, 345;
Beechey, 90;
Belknap, 134, 138, 188;
Breton, 28;
Brevoort, 188;
Bryant, 168, 188, 190, 191, 339-348;
Colan, 134, 179, 190, 191;
Columbia, 4, 6, 7, 130-237, 280, 295, 310-329, 338-341, 347;
Fanshawe Martin, 325;
Farewell, xv;
Frazer, 91;
Hecla, 141, 159, 190, 217, 226, 280, 317;
Joseph Henry, 92, 222, 337;
Lieber, 102;
May, 337;
Morris K. Jesup, 13, 21, 253, 254, 295, 326, 328, 338, 348;
Rawson, 120, 317;
Richardson, 134, 138, 140, 168;
Sabine, 39, 89, 94, 95, 124, 332;
Saumarez, 74, 332;
Sheridan, 5, 6, 38, 77, 88-129, 157, 168, 178, 193, 213,
325, 330, 332, 339-349;
St. Charles, 34;
St. George, 35;
Thomas Hubbard, 21, 110, 295, 325;
Union, 110, 118, 188, 332;
York, 32, 35, 39-46, 70-73, 271, 334.

Cape Sheridan River, 184.

Cape York Bay, 55

Carnegie Institution, 76.

Cary Islands, 38.

Casco Bay, 27.

Central Polar Sea, 38.

Char, 128.

Chester, C. M., 363.

Chicago Geographical Society, medal of, 365.

China, xv, 169.

Christmas, 185.

Clark, 271.

Clements Markham Inlet, 141, 145, 156, 157, 179, 188, 190,
330.

Coady, John, 23, 326.

Coast and Geodetic Survey, 337, 339, 340.

Colan, Cape, 134, 179, 190, 191.

Collinson, Richard, xxi.

Columbia, Cape, 4, 6, 7, 130-237, 280, 295, 310-329,
338-341, 347.

Columbus, xxxii.

Connors, John, 23, 326.

Cook, Dr. Frederick A., 75, 76, 333.

Coppermine River, xix.

Cornell University, 252, 254, 322.

Crafts, C. C., 76.

"Crane City," 223, 316.

Crane, Zenas, 16, 25.

"Crimson Cliffs," 72.

Crocker Land, 5, 341, 345, 346.

Crow's nest, 105, 112.

Crozier, xix, xx.

Daily ration, 209.

Dante, 255.

Daughters of the American Revolution, 30.

Davis, John, xv.

Davis Strait, xxi, 3, 73.

Dawn, 160.

Deep-sea soundings, 210.

Deer, 65, 87, 138, 140, 144, 145, 182.

De Long, Com., xxiv, 344.

Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, 30, 296.

Departure from _Roosevelt_, 213.

Diagram of soundings, 338.

Dickson, Capt., 331.

_Discovery_, S.S., 91.

Dividing line, 40.

Dobbin Bay, 99.

Dogs, Eskimo, condition of, 169;
feeding on return march, 305;
harnesses, 136.

_Douglas H. Thomas_, S.S., 334.

Duck Islands, 37, 38, 39.

Duke of the Abruzzi, 12, 180, 236, 252, 254, 298, 308.

_Eagle_, S.S., 28.

Eagle Island, 27, 28, 31.

East Greenland, xxvii.

Edinburgh University, Degree of LL.D., 365.

Egingwah, 69, 76, 142, 143, 146, 147, 148, 167, 251, 267,
269, 271, 299, 312.

Eider-ducks, 138.

Ellesmere Land, 76, 89, 90, 93.

Emergency outfit, 96.

_Erebus_, S.S., xx.

_Erik_, S.S., 73, 74, 75, 76, 77.

Eskimos, astronomers, 67;
burial customs, 65;
characteristics of, 46;
clothing, 131;
dogs, 70, 135, 169;
fear of "Big Lead," 191;
fish spear, 127;
home of a little tribe of, 36, 39;
housecleaning on _Roosevelt_, 330;
human qualities, 44;
language, 50;
marriage, 59;
method of fishing, 127;
money, 72;
music, 65;
of Danish Greenland, 46;
on shipboard, 98;
religion, 63;
rewarded, 323;
sledge, 135, 217, 219, 237;
theory as to origin, 49;
villages, 42;
whip, 136.

Etah, 6, 38, 39, 43, 46, 73, 79, 88, 89, 90, 91, 95, 96, 103,
106, 124, 170, 213, 333.

Expedition, Austrian-Hungarian, xxvii;
British Arctic, 38, 129;
first of Peary Arctic Club, 11, 12;
German North Polar, xxvii;
Greely's, 329;
Hayes', 38;
Kallistenius, 38;
Koldewey's, 180;
Lady Franklin Bay, 168;
of 1905-6, 2, 91, 184, 302;
Polaris, 38.

Fanshawe Martin, Cape, 325.

"Farthest North" of 1906, 188.

Farewell, Cape, xv.

Field work, 188.

First Despatch from Peary, 334.

Flag, American, 30, 294, 296, 335;
North Pole, 335.

Flaxman Island, 344, 345.

Fort Conger, 93, 148, 168, 329, 339-348.

Fort Totten, 26.

Fourth of July, 331.

Fox, 54, 127, 257, 307, 315, 328.

_Fram_, S.S., xxv, 121, 338, 345.

Franke, Rudolph, 75.

Franklin, Lady, xx.

Franklin, Sir John, xix, 9, 298, 321;
record of death, xxi.

Franz Josef Land, xxvi.

Frazer, Cape, 91.

Frederiksthaal, xxvii.

Fricker, Carl, 180.

Gannett, Henry, 363.

Generosity of the public, 18.

German North Polar expedition, xxvii.

_Gjoa_, sloop, xxi.

Glacial fringe, 194, 216, 314, 315.

Goodsell, Dr. J. W., career, 21;
extract from his journal, 157;
exploring, 106, 128;
hunting, 141, 179, 188;
moving supplies, 138, 191;
reached ship, 325;
recording temperature, 190;
slips from floe, 108;
turns back, 235.

Grant Land, 4, 6, 7, 38, 40, 90, 93, 134, 142, 168, 179, 193,
195, 300-315.

Great Britain, xv, xxiii, 269.

Great Fish River, xix.

Great Greenland ice-cap, xxix, 53, 275, 276, 284.

"Great Night," 161, 183.

Greely, Lieut. A. W., xxx, xxxi, 39, 94, 180, 329, 340, 346,
348.

Greenland, xxiii, xxix, xxx, 4, 11, 28, 32, 38, 45, 50, 89,
90, 102, 130, 187, 188, 195, 211-219, 303, 304, 325, 337;
storms, 166;
Sea, 345.

Grinnell, Henry, xxii.

Grinnell Land, 49.

Grosvenor, Gilbert H., xxxii.

Gulf of St. Lawrence, 101.

Gushue, Thomas, 23, 112, 326.

Hakluyt Island, 73.

Hall Basin, xxii.

Hall, Chas. Francis, xxii, 3, 180, 328.

Hares, arctic, 54, 110, 127, 138, 182, 189, 315.

Hareskin stockings, 257.

Harkness, 34, 35.

"Harrigan," 132, 203, 253, 319.

Harris, R. A., 337.

Harrison, 345.

Hawks Harbor, 34.

Hayes, 38, 180.

Hecla, Cape, 141, 159, 190, 217, 226, 280.

Henry VIII of England, xv.

Henson, Matthew, at the Pole, 296;
career, 20;
celebrating, 184;
chosen for final dash, 272;
hunting trips, 141, 179;
hunting walrus, 81;
interpreter, 109;
moving supplies, 191;
pioneer division, 241;
repairing sledge, 246;
teaches igloo building, 172;
visits Eskimos, 73.

House where Peary wintered in 1901-2, 93.

Hubbard, General Thomas H., 16, 25, 124.

Hubbard Memorial Hall, 363.

Hubbardville, 124, 128.

"Hudson, the," 226.

Hudson, Henry, xv, 298;
Strait, 169.

Hungarian Geographical Society, medal of, 365.

Ice cake ferry, 250, 308.

Ice, dynamiting the, 115.

Iceland, 345.

Igloo, construction of snow, 172, 173;
construction of stone, 54, 57.

Imperial Austrian Geographical Society, medal of, 365.

Imperial German Geographical Society, medal of, 365.

Independence, Bay, xxix, 18, 99, 151, 276;
Bluff, 215.

Inglefield, 180;
Gulf, 73.

Indian Harbor, 334.

Indies, xv, xvi.

Inighito, 141, 160, 167.

Instrument used for observation at the Pole, 288.

Ikwah, 52, 271.

Italian record, 252, 269.

Island, Beaumont, 337;
Bennett, 344, 346;
Blackwell, 25, 26;
Brevoort, 90;
Cary, 38;
Duck, 37-39;
Eagle, 27, 28, 31;
Flaxman, 344, 345;
Hakluyt, 73;
New Siberian, 49, 344;
Northumberland, 73;
Prince Patrick, 346;
Salvo, 72;
Spitzbergen, 341, 342;
Turnavik, 35.

Itiblu Glacier, 74.

Jackman, Captain, 28.

Jackson, xxvi.

James Ross Bay, 143, 144, 155, 179.

Jamestown, xv.

_Jeannette_, S.S., xxiv, xxv, 101, 345.

Jefferds, 334.

Jesup Land, 295.

Johansen, xxv.

Johnson, 76.

Joseph Henry, Cape, 92, 222, 337.

Joyce, Patrick, 23, 326.

Kallistenius, 38.

Kamiks, 132, 209, 257.

Kane Basin, 36, 53, 73, 94, 342, 343.

Kane, Elisha Kent, xxii, 38, 180, 298.

Kangerdlooksoah, 74.

Karko, 141, 203, 253, 266.

Karnah, 74.

Kayaks, 42, 68.

Kennedy Channel, 102, 331, 342, 343.

Keshungwah, 141, 168, 203, 253, 266.

King William Land, xx, xxi.

Kislingbury, Lieut., 329.

"Kitchen boxes," 131, 139.

_Kite_, S.S., xxviii.

Knitting breaks in trail, 207.

Koldewey, 180.

Kookan, 74.

Koolatoonah, 142, 146, 148, 153, 155.

Kooletah, 131.

Koolootingwah, 235.

Kudlooktoo, 213, 218, 220, 231, 253, 319.

Kyoahpahdo, 65.

Kyutah, 141, 218, 220, 223, 227.

Labrador, 32, 34, 35, 77.

Lady Franklin Bay, 78, 168, 329.

Lake Hazen, 118, 127, 141, 179, 182, 188.

Land in unknown Arctic, 339.

Larned, Walter A., 76.

Leads, 196, 207, 221, 222, 236-285, 305.

Leffingwell, 345.

Lena, xxv.

Lieber, Cape, 102.

Lincoln, Bay, 93, 106, 110, 112, 117, 118;
Sea, 91, 342.

Lions of the North, 79.

Lockwood, xxiii, 321, 337.

Long night, 162.

Long, Thomas, xxiv.

Low Point Light, 29.

Lunar hours, 341.

Lunitidal interval, 340.

McClintock, Leopold, xxi.

McClure, Robert, xxi.

McCormick Bay, xxix.

MacMillan, Prof. Donald B., career, 21;
entertains Eskimos, 231;
expedition to Clements Markham Inlet, 157;
finds Greely relics, 329;
his Eskimos overcome, 158;
hunting walrus, 81, 82, 83;
ill with grip, 128, 140;
moving supplies, 191;
reached ship, 325;
reconnoitering, 117;
sent back for supplies, 227;
sounding, 222;
takes charge of sports, 185;
tidal observations, 167;
turns back, 236.

Magellan, xxxii.

Manchester Geographical Society, honorary membership, 365.

Markham, Sir Clements, xxiii, xxx, 49, 180, 222, 337.

Marvin, Prof. Ross G., appreciation of his work, 319;
celebrating, 184;
comes back with supplies, 235;
delayed by leads, 308;
facsimile of certificate, 356-358;
facsimile of observations, 351-355;
last message, 321;
news of his death, 318;
pioneer division, 237, 241, 243;
replaces _Alert's_ record, 129;
returns to "Crane City," 223;
return from Cape Bryant, 191;
soundings, 222;
starts for Greenland coast, 187;
starts south, 253;
takes supplies to Cape Belknap, 138;
taking observations, 168, 249, 252;
teaching igloo building, 172;
tidal igloo split by pressure, 177.

May, Cape, 337.

Mayen, Jan, xv.

_Mayflower_, S.S., 26.

Medals, 364, 365.

Melville Bay, 36, 37, 39, 40, 53.

Melville, G. W., xxv., 298.

Meridian observations, method of taking, 288.

Meteorological observations, 339.

Meteorology, 346.

Method for loading sledge, 209.

Mikkelsen, 345.

Mills, Hugh Robert, 180.

Mongolian types among Eskimos, 49.

Monument to Marvin, 321.

Morris K. Jesup, Camp, 290;
Cape, 13, 21, 253, 254, 295, 326, 328, 338, 348.

Murphy, Denis, 23, 82, 326.

Murphy, John, 20, 23, 75, 76.

Musk-oxen, 110, 151-157, 183, 189-191.

Nansen, Dr., v, xxv, xxix, xxx, 12, 121, 180, 244, 251-254,
308.

Nares, George, xxiii, xxx, 180.

_Narkeeta_, S.S., 26.

Narwhal, 87, 132.

National Geographic Society, medal of, 365;
report on Peary's record, 363;
resolutions, 364.

"Nautical Almanac and Navigator," 289.

Navy League, 80.

Nelson, xvi.

Nerke, 74, 332.

New Bedford, 27.

Newfoundland, 76.

New Land, xxiv.

Newman Bay, 188.

New Siberian Islands, 49, 344.

New York, 2, 3, 6, 12, 25, 26, 34, 37, 42, 53, 76, 92, 111,
121.

Nordenskjöld, 11, 180.

North America, xvi, xix.

Northeast Passage, xvi.

Northern Greenland, 53.

North Grant Land, 90, 128, 194.

North Pole, defined, 291;
flag, 335;
hill, 309;
magnetic xvii, xix.

North River, 92.

_North Star_, S.S., 27, 38.

North Star Bay, 38, 73.

North Sydney, 29.

Northumberland Island, 73.

Northwest Passage, xvi, xviii, xx, xxi.

Norton, George S., 76.

Norway, 345.

Norwegian record, 250, 251.

Note to Marvin, 232.

Nova Zembla, xxvii.

Nunatoksoah, 74.

Observations, tidal and meteorological, 168, 188, 211, 243,
248, 266, 268, 284, 287, 289, 290, 318, 329, 337, 339,
342, 348, 350-355, 359, 362.

Ocean, Arctic, 4, 49, 193, 216, 337, 344;

Atlantic, xx, xxi, 343;
Pacific, xxi.

Odometer, 211.

Ohlsen, 38.

Onkilon, 49.

"On the _Polar Star_ in the Arctic Sea," 180.

Onwagipsoo, 142.

Ooblooyah, 117, 142, 143, 146, 147, 149, 153, 155, 167.

Oomunnui, 78.

Ooqueah, 52, 69, 73, 117, 141, 203, 247, 253, 269, 271, 304.

Ootah, 7, 69, 76, 117, 141, 235, 253, 267, 269, 271, 316.

Oyster Bay, 26.

Pacific Ocean, xxi.

Panikpah, 141, 191, 230.

Paraselene, 175.

Parhelion, 176.

Parish, Henry, 16.

Parr, 337.

Parry, xvii, xviii, xix, xxiii, xxx;
Peninsula, 145, 159.

Payer, xxvi, 180;
Harbor, 92, 93, 94.

Peabody, Geo., xxii.

"Pearyaksoah," 52.

Peary Arctic Club, 13, 15, 25, 26, 27, 95, 103, 124, 204, 253,
326, 334, 335.

Peary Land, 342.

Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 31, 130.

Peary, Mrs. Robert E., xxix, 19, 26, 27, 29, 30, 45, 49, 93,
186, 294, 299, 334.

Peary, Robert E., Jr., 29, 113.

"Peary," sledge, 122, 135, 174, 217, 219, 237, 277.

Peary's observation, April 6, facsimile, 362.

"Peary system," 201.

Percy, Charles, 20, 23, 32, 99, 113, 130, 164, 181, 184, 186,
326, 327.

Percy, George, 23, 326.

Permanent monument, 325.

Petersen, 38, 128.

Philadelphia Geographical Society, medal of, 365.

Phipps, J. C., xvi.

Piblokto, 166, 167, 178.

Pilgrim Fathers, xv.

Pingahshoo, 184.

Pioneer party, 203-205, 214, 237, 241.

Pitlekaj, 344, 345.

Plan, 3.

Plymouth Rock, xv.

Point, Aldrich, 339, 340, 343, 345, 347, 348;
Amour Light, 33, 34;
Barrow, 344-346;
Good, 159;
Moss, 4.

Polar, Basin, 345;
bear, 54, 75, 79, 130, 132, 146, 156, 169, 252, 309, 315;
Sea, 5, 88, 90, 134, 193, 195, 206, 207, 237, 255, 262,
315, 320.

_Polaris_, S.S., xxiii, 38, 91, 102.

Polaris Promontory, 188, 190.

Polar pack, 337.

Poodloonah, 141, 167, 230, 253.

Porter Bay, 118, 120, 134, 140, 142, 143, 276.

Pressure ridges, 194, 196, 205, 207, 217, 250, 260, 261.

Prince Patrick Island, 346.

Princess Marie Bay, 100.

Pritchard, William, 23, 75.

_Proteus_, S.S., 91.

_Protococcus nivalis_, 72.

Rae, xx.

Raven, Anton A., 16.

Rawson, Cape, 120, 317.

Record of 1906, 262.

Recrossing the "big lead" in 1906, 41.

Redcliffe Peninsula, 74.

"Red snow," 72.

Regan, 331.

Reindeer, 54, 110, 118, 143, 183.

Relay parties, 187.

Return in November, 1906, 32.

Return of the sun, 227.

Richardson, Cape, 134, 138, 140, 168.

Robertson Bay, 74.

Robeson Channel, 77, 102, 122, 134, 168, 188, 190, 328, 329,
342.

Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore, 26, 27.

_Roosevelt_, the, after deckhouse, 31;
aground, 115;
American built, 19;
at Lincoln Bay, 112;
bucking ice, 100, 110;
cairn, 129;
caught off Victoria Head, 95;
collision with berg, 89;
damaged by ice, 114, 119;
departure from, 213;
Eskimo quarters on, 98, 124;
goes on to Etah, 73;
gripped in the ice, 177;
igloos on deck, 175;
in storm, 1906, 32;
in winter quarters, 126;
leaves Etah, 89;
leaves Lincoln Bay, 118;
leaves New York, 25;
leaves Sydney, 29;
leaving Cape York, 72;
leaving winter quarters, 331;
loaded deep, 77;
loading walrus, 87;
method of procedure, 91, 92;
passing Cape Sabine, 94;
passing Payer Harbor, 93;
Peary's cabin on, 30;
put in fighting trim, 75;
reaches Cape Breton, 334;
reaches Cape Sheridan, 120;
reaches Cape York, 42;
repairs and changes, 13;
return to, 317, 325;
return to Battle Harbor, 334;
standing by hunters, 80;
steaming northward, 36;
unloading, 122;
visits Eagle Island, 27;
winter home on the, 162, 166.

Roosevelt, Theodore, viii, 26, 27, 30, 339;
his good-by to Peary, vii.

Ross, James Clark, xix, 334.

Ross, Capt. John, 72, xviii.

Route of return in 1906, 304.

Royal Belgian Geographical Society, medal of, 365.

Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp, medal of, 365.

Royal Geographical Society of London, 49;
medal of, 365.

Royal Italian Geographical Society, medal of, 365.

Royal Netherlands Geographical Society of Amsterdam, honorary
membership, 365.

Royal Scottish Geographical Society, special trophy, 365.

Sabine, Cape, 39, 89, 94, 95, 124, 332.

Sagamore Hill, 27.

Sail Harbor, 134, 142, 145, 155.

Salvo Island, 72.

Sanderson Hope, xv.

Sandy Hook, 168.

Saumarez, Cape, 74, 332.

Scoresby, William, xxvii.

Scotch whalers, 37.

Scott, Banks, 23, 326.

Scott, Capt., 180.

Seal, 65, 250.

Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 339.

Seegloo, 69, 73, 141, 167, 203, 234, 269, 271, 299.

_Sheelah_, S.S., 334.

Sheridan, Cape, 5, 6, 38, 77, 88-129, 157, 168, 178, 193, 213,
325, 330, 332, 339, 349.

Siberia, xxiv, 49, 344, 345.

"Siege of the South Pole," 180.

Skeans, Patrick, 23, 326.

Sledge, Eskimo, 122, 135, 217, 219, 237, 277;
"Peary," 122, 135, 174, 217, 219, 237, 277.

Smith Sound, xxvii, 3, 5, 76, 77, 124, 180, 342, 343.

Sontag, 38, 321.

Sounding apparatus, 210.

Soundings, 210, 222, 227, 236, 246, 262, 304, 309, 329, 337,
338.

"_Southern Cross_ Expedition to the Antarctic," 180.

Spitzbergen Islands, xv, xvii, 341, 342.

St. Charles, Cape, 34.

St. George, Cape, 35.

Stepping Stone Light, 26.

"Storm camp," 243, 306.

Straits of Belle Isle, 3, 32.

Styx, 225, 226.

Summer solstice, 330.

Supplies, 23.

Supporting party, 204, 206.

Sydney, C. B., 3, 6, 23, 28, 29, 32, 42, 77, 299, 334.

Tampa, Florida, 42.

Tasmania, xix.

Tawchingwah, 141.

Temperature tables, 346, 347.

Tents, 139.

Teplitz Bay, 345.

_Terror_, S.S., xix.

Thank God Harbor, 102.

Thanksgiving Day, 179.

Thomas Hubbard, Cape, 21, 110, 295, 325.

Tide, staves, 339;
table, 340.

Tiger of the North, 79.

_Tigress_, ship, xxiii.

Tittmann, Supt. O. H., 337, 364.

Tookoomah, 187.

Tornarsuk, 64, 147, 148, 150, 215, 219.

Toxingwa, 158.

Transportation of supplies, 130, 134, 191, 327.

Tupiks, 44, 54, 58, 59.

Turnavik Island, 35.

_Tyrian_, S.S., 334.

Unexplored inlet, 154.

Union, Cape, 110, 118, 188, 332.

United States, 170, 316.

Victoria Head, 95.

_Victory_, S.S., xviii.

"Voyage of the _Discovery_," 180.

"Voyage to the Polar Sea," 180.

_Wakiva_, S.S., 34.

Walrus, xvi, 65, 77, 79, 80-87, 169, 333.

Walrus-hunting, 80-87.

Wardwell, George A., 20, 23, 101, 326.

Weekly bill of fare, 164.

Weesockasee, 158.

Wesharkoopsi, 84, 85, 142, 145, 168, 235.

Weyprecht, xxvi, 180.

Whale-boat, 29, 31, 79, 80, 84, 95, 123.

Whale factories, 34.

Whale Sound, 3, 54, 74, 79, 87, 328.

Whales, xvi.

White Nile, viii.

Whitney, Harry, 75, 333.

Willoughby, 321.

_Windward_, S.S., 93, 130.

Winter solstice, 184.

Wiseman, John, 23, 326.

Wolf, 54.

Wolf, Dr., 20.

Wolstenholm Sound, 73, 79.

"World's Ensign of Liberty and Peace," 296.

Wrangell Land, xxiv.

York, Cape, 32, 35, 39-46, 70-73, 271, 334.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

List of Illustrations, "Weeshakupsi" changed to "Wesharkoopsi".

Page 21, "Alleghany" changed to "Allegheny". (the Allegheny Valley Medical)

Page 32, word "it" added to text. (reason that it is)

Page 59, "tries" changed to "dries" (dries out the oil)

Page 64, "appeciation" changed to "appreciation". (appreciation of these)

Page 117, "Ookeyah" changed to "Ooqueah". (Ooqueah started off)

Page 141, "Kyootah" changed to "Kyutah". (Keshungwah, Kyutah, and Borup)

Page 141, "Ookeyah" changed to "Ooqueah". (Inighito, Ooqueah, Dr. Goodsell,)

Page 142, "Wesharkoopsee" changed to "Wesharkoopsi". (Wesharkoopsi, who) (Wesharkoopsi we took)

Page 145, "Wesharkoopsee" changed to "Wesharkoopsi". (pile for Wesharkoopsi) (Wesharkoopsi deposited)

Page 154, "Oobloyah" changed to "Ooblooyah". (a camp. Ooblooyah)

Page 160, "Innighito" changed to "Inighito". (Inighito (an Eskimo))

Page 167, "Ooblooah" changed to "Ooblooyah" (Ooblooyah and Seegloo went)

Page 168, "Wesharkoopsee" changed to "Weesharkoopsi". (Wesharkoopsi and Keshungwah)

Page 177, "floe berg" changed to "floe-berg" to conform to rest of text.

Page 203, "Pooadloonah" changed to "Poodloonah". (three Eskimos, Poodloonah,)

Page 230, "Pooadloonah" changed to "Poodloonah". (excuses of Poodloonah)

Page 237, "good by" changed to "good-by" to conform to rest of text. Also in illustrations. Also in titles of Chapters XXVII and XXXIII.

Page 253, "Keshingwah" changed to "Keshungwah". (Keshungwah, with three)

Page 266, "Keshingwah" changed to "Keshungwah". (Keshungwah and Karko)

Page 271, "Ikwa" changed to "Ikwah". (old Ikwah of Cape)

Page 296, "Ookeah" changed to "Ooqueah". (and Ooqueah, Eskimos)

Page 319, "Koodlooktoo" changed to "Kudlooktoo". (come back, Kudlooktoo)

Page 370, "Johanson" changed to "Johansen". (Johansen, xxv.)

Page 317, "Ookeyah, 117" changed to "Ooqueah" and added to "Ooqueah" page list in index.

Page 370, "Kernah" changed to "Karnah". (Karnah, 74.)