CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGK 



I The Four Stages in Pol.\r Exploration 1 



II The North That Never Was T 



III Good-By to "Civilization" foe Five Years . ... 27 



IV The Seeds op Tragedy 41 



V The Karluk in Fetters of Ice 49 



VI The Karluk Disappears 56 



VII News and Plans 66 



VIII The Journey to Collinson Point 75 



IX A Paitse at Winter Quarters 91 



X We Meet Dr. Anderson 96 



XI Midwinter Travel and Preparation for Spring Work, 1914 99 



XII The Collinson Point Difficulties Ill 



XIII Shall We Dare to March North? 123 



XIV The Ice Joi-trney Begins in Misfortune and Difficulty . 141 

 XV The First Fifty Miles 153 



XVI We Enter Upon the Unknown Ocean 162 



XVII Colder Weather and Better Progress 170 



XVIII We Burn the Last Bridge Behind Us 187 



XIX We Secure Our First Seal 198 



XX Marooned On an Island of Ice 210 



XXI Summer Travel On Drifting Floes, 1914 220 



XXII Land After Ninety-Three Days on Drifting Ice . . . 226 



XXIII Records, Retrospects and Reflections 235 



XXIV Summer Life in Banks Island 242 



XXV Ole and I Go Hunting 250 



XXVI We Discover the Mary Sachs 266 



XXVII The Autumn Hunt in Banks Island, 1914 .... 278 



XXVIII Midwinter Travel and Its Difficulties 285 



XXIX Spring Travel, 1915 293 



XXX Men and Bears as Seal Hunters 300 



XXXI We Complete the Mapping of Prince Patrick Island . . 3l2 



XXXII We Reach McClintock's F.\rthest 318 



XXXIII The Discovery of New Land 324 



XXXIV Exploring the New Land 331 



XXXV Melville Island and McClure Strait 351 



XXXVI Historic Mercy Bay 359 



XXXVII First Crossing of Banks Isl-^nd, 1915 364 



XXXVIII We Are "Rescued" by Captain Louis Lane .... 374 



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