special acknoivUdgment 

 Is here gratefully made to The Mariners' Museum, 

 Newport NewSj Virginia, under whose auspices was 

 prepared and ivith ivhose cooperation is here published 

 the part of this work based on the Adney papers; 

 also to the late Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for whose 

 Encyclopedia Arctic a ivas ivritten the chapter 

 on Arctic skin boats 



