Fatal North (41 page)

confides to Chester of Buddington's plans,
122

fear of expedition failure,
102–103
,
121
,
122
,
141–142

during Hall's illness and death,
77–87
,
89–90

Hall's selection of,
26–27

ice-floe survivor,
146
,
162
,
165
,
175

life after expedition,
290–293

Polaris
winter quarters,
61–72

pressing farther north,
61–63

sledge expedition to Newman Bay,
121–123

small boat scouting party,
118–119
,
120–121
,
125–132
,
234

statements at expedition inquiry,
229–243

Tigress
search for
Polaris
survivors,
245–251

time in crow's nest,
55
,
62
,
63

Tyson, George E., Ir.,
292

Tyson party

abandonment of disintegrating ice floe,
197–222

armed survivors,
156

attempts to reach Ellesmere Island,
154–155

attempts to reach the
Polaris,
148–149
,
150–153

blubber lamps,
156

death of last dog,
184

dividing seal meat,
173–174

German crew plans for Greenland,
175–176

Joe's concern of cannibalism,
169–171
,
208–210

lack of freshwater,
208
,
215

members of,
146

reliance on Joe and Hans for hunting food,
153–222

rescue by sealer
Tigress,
216–222

shelters and encampment on ice floe,
155–157

site of separation from
Polaris,
248–249

survival on ice floe,
150–222

Thanksgiving and Christmas,
166–167
,
172

tidiness of encampment,
183
,
220

uncooperative German crew,
151–152
,
162
,
163–164
,
168–169
,
176
,
213

U. S. Coast Survey Office,
18

United States Navy

recruiting immigrants,
32

split-command orders if death of commander,
35–37

United States Signal Corps,
42

Upernavik,
49
,
50
,
110–111

Virginia,
CSS,
228

Walrus,
whaling ship,
225

walruses,
52–53

Washington Navy Yard,
29
,
227–229
,
253

whaling,
16

wildlife in Arctic.
See
Animals in Arctic/wildlife

York, Cape,
248
,
252
,
256
,
260