ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



Frontispiece 



On the Coppermine River in 1910 the Mosquitoes Bit Our Dogs Around 



the Eyes Till the Eyes Swelled 16 



There Are Hundreds of Species of Flowering Plants and Dozens of" 

 Species of Moths and Butterflies Found on the Most Northerly 

 Islands in the World !" 17 



A Meadow and Flowers of the Cotton Plant — Herschel Island, North 



Coast of Canada 



Captain Robert A. Bartlettl „„ 



Dr. R. M. Anderson J 



Most Northerly Clubhouse in America — Log Cabin Club, Nome 

 The Most Northerly Citizen of Uncle Sam for Forty Years — Barrow, 



Alaska. Charles Brower, Fred Hopson >- 27 



Most Northerly Theatre— Nome 

 ]\Iost Northerly School, Post Office and Church, Barrow, Alaska 



Alaskan Reindeer Herd 36 



The Adaptability of the Skin Boat 37 



Music for an Outdoors Dance — Copper Eskimos"! .„ 



Labrets Worn by Mackenzie Eskimos J 



Mackenzie Family "1 ., 



Eskimo School Children at Barrow J 



Winter Quarters at CoUinson Point 92 



Wilkins Taking Movies ~1 „„ 



Wilkins Showing Movies to Eskimos, Cliristmas, CoUinson Point/ 

 The Sledge Trails Seaward from Martin Point \ ^^r, 



Cooking Outdoors with Seal Fat J 



Repairing a Broken Sled 143 



The Camp on the Ice Before the Gale 150 



Wilkins on the Shore Ice 151 



Constructing a Snowhouse — First Four Steps 174 



Constructing a Snowhouse — Last Steps 175 



Rigging the Sledboat 206 



Launching the Sledboat — Crossing a Lead — Landing 207 



Sealing Waters ^ „^P 



Fair Wind and Level Ice J 



Tent and Snow "Sastrugi" After a Blizzard 1 ^^-. 



The Lead That Stopped Us J " 



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