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Sledging. See Overland travel and sledging
Somerset House, 27–28, 53
Spenceley, Brian, 200, 201, 206
Starvation, 38, 74–76, 103, 114–17, 250
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 102–4
St. Roch, 100
Sutherland, Peter, 65–66, 72, 181, 186–87, 206
Technology, Victorian, 16, 35, 236–38, 242–43, 253–55
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 76, 100
Terror, HMS. See Erebus, HMS and Terror, HMS
Thoreau, Henry David, 64
Tin cans: in Beechey Island cairn, 64, 179–81, 203–4; in Inuit cache, 98; Inuit reports of, 101; lead solder, 142–43, 181; on Montreal Island, 76; opening of, 22, 24; recycling of, 144; Victorian canning technology, 16, 236–38
Tinned food: advantages and use by Royal Navy, 15, 24–25, 33; on Arctic expeditions, 22–25, 28, 32, 41, 44, 48, 52–53, 70, 86, 240, 251–54; Inuit reports of, 96, 98–99; as lead source, 142–43, 236–38; as putative antiscorbutic, 15–16, 68, 104; spoilage and quality, 56–57, 64–65, 180–81
Torrington, John, 3, 62, 73, 145, 155, 157–77, 192–98
Trace element analysis, 111, 140–41, 144–47, 194–95, 235–36, 239–40, 245–47
Tungilik, Arsien, 119, 126–27
University of Alberta, 12, 16, 105
Victorian society: Crimean War, 76; equipment hauled by Franklin party, 86–88; “exhibit” of “Esquimaux,” 73–74; image of polar regions, 20; Romanticism, 4, 77–78, 79; sources of lead poisoning, 141–44, 236–38, 244–55. See also Technology, Victorian
Victory, 25–27
Water: drinking, on Beechey Island, 157; in graves, 158–59, 202; for melting permafrost, in excavations, 168–69, 184, 205, 206, 229, 230; meltwater and overland travel, 108, 121; shortage, in Kane expedition, 70; for X-ray development, 211–12
Weather and climate: field season, 1982, 121, 134, 165; field season, 1984, 178; field season, 1986, 202; and 19th-century Arctic exploration, 23, 70, 128–29; at Torrington’s burial, 198
X-ray studies, 210–14, 217, 230–32, 241
York Factory Complaint, 141–42
Young, Alexander, death of, 32
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