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CONTENTS 



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XXXIX A Summer Visit to Herschel Island 387 



XL Ice Navigation and Winter Quarters 397 



XLI Autumn in Victoria Island 405 



XLII A Visit to the Copper Eskimos 416 



XLIII Trouble With the Copper Eskimos 430 



XLIV Midwinter Travels and Plans, 1915-16 443 



XLV A Near Tragedy 450 



XLVI Winter Preparations 461 



XLVII Eskimo Tales from Winter Quarters 466 



XLVIII The North Coast of Banks Island 472 



XLIX WiLKiNS Leaves the Expedition, 1916 487 



L Into the Unknown Beyond the Ringnes Islands . . 509 



LI Discovery of Meighen Island 517 



LII Hassel Sound and King Christian Land .... 525 



LIII The Discovery of Lougheed Island 537 



LIV We Discover People and a Coal Mine 562 



LV We Find Bernier's Depot 571 



LVI The Fourth Midwinter, 1916-17 590 



LVII Arrival of Gonzales With News 598 



LVIII Spring Travel, 1917 608 



LIX In the Footsteps of Earlier Explorers 623 



LX The Tragedy of Bernard and Thomsen 646 



LXI The Destruction of the Mary Sachs 655 



LXII The Adventures of the Autumn, 1917 663 



LXIII The Return After the Fifth Winter 673 



APPENDIX 



Drifting in the Beaufort Sea. By Storker T. Storkerson. Reprinted 



from MacLean's Magazine, March 15 and April 1, 1920 .... 689 



The Story of the Karluk, according to the account of Captain John R. 

 Hadley, and the account of the rescue of the survivors by Burt M. 

 McConnell 704 



The Region of Maximum Inaccessibility in the Arctic. By Vilhjalmur 

 Stefansson. Reprinted from The Geographical Review, Vol. IX, Sep- 

 tember, 1920, No. 9 731 



The Work of the Southern Section of the Expedition. A summary 

 of the report of Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson in the Report of the 

 Department of the Naval Service for the Fiscal Year ending March 

 31, 1917 737 



