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;