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THE SHORES OF KENNEDY CHANNEL . . ... 242 



From Hayes' Open Polar Sea 



TYNDALL GLACIER . ... 244 



From Hayes' Of en Polar Sea 



A SEAL IN DANGER . ... 246 



From Parry's Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-vjest Passage 

 (.Murray, 1824) 



SIR GEORGE NARES . . ... 248 



From a photograph 



SLEDGES USED BY SIR LEOPOLD M'CLINTOCK AND SIR GEORGE NARES . 254 



(In the collection of Edward Whymper) 



BISHOP PAUL EGEDE . . . ... 258 



From the Frontispiece to Efterretninger out Gronland (Copenhagen) 



GREENLANDERS . . . . ... 260 



From Hartwig's Polar World (Longmans) 



ON LEVEL GROUND . . . ... 262 



Nansen's First Crossing of Greenland (Longmans) 



THE ALLAN LINER "SARDINIAN" A.MONG ICEBERGS . . . 264 



From a photograph 



THE " GERMANIA '' IN THE ICE . . ... 266 



From Le Tour du Monde, 1874 (Hachette) 



THE REGION ROUND MOUNT PETERMANN . ... 268 



From a drawing by Lieutenant Julius Payer 



THE LAST DAYS OF THE " HANSA " . . . 270 



From Le Tour du Monde, 1874 (Hachette) 



ROBERT E. PEARY . . . ... 280 



With autograph, from a letter in the possession of Edward Whymper 



From Nearest the Pole, by Commander Peary. By permission of Hutchinson and Co. 



SECTIO.\ 7 AL MAPS 



1. SPITSBERGEN . . . . . 12 



2. CAPE CHELYUSKIN . . . . .84 



3. THE LENA DELTA . . . . . . 10G 



4. BERING STRAIT . . . . 128 



5. THE PARRY ISLANDS . . . . \1\ 



6. GREENLAND .... 272 



