THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



BY RUDOLF KERSTIXG, 



OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER. 



Seventeen cameras on board 

 the Miranda, and seventeen minds 

 differing in their objects and views. 

 Had the steamer been able to go 

 over the intended route and given 

 the travellers the time proposed, 

 never would a more complete pic- 

 torial record of Arctic travel, sport, 

 and scientific aspects have Ibeen 

 made. As it was, the scope of sub- 

 jects in the illustrations is much 

 more varied than any one, two, or 

 three men, amateur or professional, 

 could have procured. 

 Something over a thousand plates, mostly developed, were 

 lost when the steamer was abandoned. The writer lost over 

 six hundred eight by ten negatives. 



The illustrations in this book are products of the cameras of 

 members of the expedition, with the exception of five. These 

 were reproduced from originals taken by a native Eskimo 

 photographer at Godthaab, who spent two years in Denmark, 

 and is quite proficient in the art ; and two of the illustrations 

 have been reproduced from sketches. A few remarks con- 

 cerning the photographers and their Avork will add to the 

 interest of the illustrations. 



Professor William H. Brewer, of Yale, photographed with 

 excellent success, paying much attention to lighting his sub- 



