LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Entering Ellesmere Land, the home of the musk-ox Frontispiece 



Author in a whale's mouth 5 



Stripping blubber from a whale 10 



A group of Peary's Eskimos 15 



The Erik in Etah Harbor 20 



Captain Sam Bartlett in command of the Erik 26 



On board the Erik f spying out walrus 29 



Encamped on a narwhal hunt 36 



Carrying deer meat out of rocky country 39 



The author's shack at Etah 43 



The whale-boat in a dangerous position ....... 50 



Two huntsmen of the Highland tribe 53 



Eskimos at their summer home 59 



The Roosevelt leaving Etah for Cape Sheridan with Peary 



in command 70 



Kayak in smooth water 78 



On Smith Sound ice 85 



Wind-break of snow-blocks 93 



Camp on the way to Humboldt Glacier ; Mr. Whitney in the 



foreground 100 



Eskimo women fishing through ice. Note the babies on their 



backs 107 



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