CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



Introduction vii 



Foreword xv 



I The Plan 1 



II Preparations 11 



III The Start 25 



IV Up to Cape York 34 



V Welcome from the Eskimos 42 



VI An Arctic Oasis 53 



VII Odd Customs of an Odd People .... 63 



VIII Getting Recruits 72 



IX A Walrus Hunt 79 



X Knocking at the Gateway to the Pole . 88 



XI Close Quarters with the Ice 97 



XII The Ice Fight Goes On 106 



XIII Cape Sheridan at Last 117 



XIV In Winter Quarters 126 



XV The Autumn Work . 134 



XVI The Biggest Game in the Arctic . . . 143 



XVII Musk-oxen at Last 151 



XVIII The Long Night 162 



XIX The Roosevelt's Narrow Escape .... 172 



XX Christmas on the Roosevelt 182 



XXI Arctic Ice Sledging as it Really Is . . 193 



XXII Essentials that Brought Success. . . 201 



XXIII Off Across the Frozen Sea 213 



XXIV The First Open Water 221 



XXV Some of My Eskimos Lose their Nerve . 230 



XXVI Borup's Farthest North 240 



XXVII Good By to Marvin 248 



XXVIII We Break all Records 255 



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