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PACING PAGE 



Cape Sumner, Greenland 43 



Birthday Cape, Wrangel Bay, Grinnell Land . . 43 

 The "Roosevelt" Immediately After Arrival at Cape 



Sheridan 64 



The Alert's Cairn, AT Floeberg Beach .... 67 



Petersen's Grave, Overlooking Floeberg Beach . . 67 



Cape Sheridan and THE Polar Ocean 74 



The "Roosevelt" at Cape Sheridan, After a South- 

 erly Gale 77 



A Day's Hare Shooting at Sheridan 80 



Return of Hunting Party from Cape Henry with First 



Specimens OF New Reindeer 80 



Last View of the Sun, Black Cape, October 12, 1906 . 83 



Shaping THE Runners 84 



Eskimos Making Sledges on Board the "Roose- 

 velt" 84 



Salmon Trout from Lake Hazen 87 



Eskimos Fishing on Lake Hazen 87 



Moonlight View of the "Roosevelt" in Winter 



Quarters at Cape Sheridan 88 



The Bow of THE "Roosevelt" IN Winter Quarters . 91 



Weighing MusK-Ox Meat 98 



Reindeer AND MusK-Ox Meat IN THE Rigging . . 98 



Crossing Feilden Peninsula loi 



CapeHecla WITH Cape Joseph Henry IN THE Distance . 102 



Captain Bartlett AT Cape Hecla 105 



DeLAyCaMP ATTHE "BigLeAD," 84® 38' .... Io6 



Eskimo Drawings Made AT Storm Camp .... 109 



A Sample of THE Arctic Pack 156 



As They Rounded up the Herd of Musk-Oxen, Nare's 



Land i59 



After the Killing i59 



Egingwah and the Morris K. Jesup Sledge . . 174 

 My Entire Western Party on the Road to Cape 



Columbia ^74 



