2. CASTAWAYS AND CRUSOES. Since the begin- 

 nings of navigation men have faced the dangers of shipwreck 

 and starvation. Scattered through the annals of the sea are the 

 stories of those to whom disaster came and the personal records of 

 the way they met it. Some of them are given in this volume, narra- 

 tives of men who lived by their hands among savages and on forlorn 

 coasts, or drifted helpless in open boats. They range from the 

 South Seas to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from the iron coast of Pata- 

 gonia to the shores of Cuba. They are echoes from the days when 

 the best that could be hoped by the man who went to sea was hard- 

 ship and man's-sized work. 



3, CAPTIVES AMONG THE INDIANS. First of all 



is the story of Captain James Smith, who was captured by the Dela- 

 wares at the time of Braddock's defeat, was adopted into the tribe, 

 and for four years lived as an Indian, hunting with them, studying 

 their habits, and learning their point of view. Then there is the 

 story of Father Bressani who felt the tortures of the Iroquois, of 

 Mary Rowlandson who was among the human spoils of King 

 Philip's war, and of Mercy Harbison who suftered in the red flood 

 that followed St. Clair's defeat. All are personal records made by 

 the actors themselves in those days when the Indian was constantly 

 at our forefathers's doors. 



4. FIRST THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON, by 



Major John Wesley Powell. Major Powell was an officer in the 

 Union Army who lost an arm at Shiloh. In spite of this four years 

 after the war he organized an expedition which explored the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado in boats— the first to make this journey. His 

 story has been lost for years in the oblivion of a scientific report. 

 It is here rescued and presented as a record of one of the great 

 personal exploring feats, fitted to rank with the exploits of Pike, 

 Lewis and Clark, and Mackenzie. 



5. ADRIFT IN THE ARCTIC ICE-PACK, By 



Elisha Kent Kane, M. D. Out of the many expeditions that 

 went north in search of Sir John Franklia over fifty years ago, it fell 

 to the lot of one, financed by a New York merchant, to spend an 

 Arctic winter drifting aimlessly in the grip of the Polar ice in Lan- 

 caster Sound. The surgeon of the expedition kept a careful diary 

 and out of that record told the first complete story of a Far Northern 

 winter. That story is here presented, shorn of the purely scientific 

 data and stripped to the personal exploits and adventures of the 

 author and the other members of the crew. . 



