Table of Contents 



FINDING THE NORTH POLE ..... v 



BY GEORGE W. MELVILLE, 

 Rear Admiral U. S. Navy, Retired. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENTS OF COOK AND PEARY ..... 17 



CHAPTER II. 

 COOK'S STORY OF His DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH POLE ...... 28 



CHAPTER III. 

 THE STORY OF PEARY'S GREAT EXPLOIT ................... 48 



CHAPTER IV. 



SlDE-LlGHTS ON THE PEARY EXPEDITION ................. 6 



CHAPTER V. 

 EARLY LIFE AND EXPERIENCES OF DR. FREDERICK A. COOK. . . 84 



CHAPTER VI. 

 COOK IN THE ANTARCTIC AND IN ALASKA ................ 93 



CHAPTER VII. 

 BRADLEY' s ACCOUNT OF THE COOK EXPEDITION ........... in 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 ROBERT E. PEARY, THE INDOMITABLE POLAR EXPLORER ..... 123 



