ILLUSTRATIONS 



View from Hovt island looking across Hnnton strait to Holm island 



(pl.l)..... 1 



Vegetation on south slope of Hoyt island, August 15, 1897 (pi. 1). . . 1 

 Plan of Arctic exploration from a base near Jones sound or at Cape 



Sabine 2 



Hubbard bay and Alison bay, west Greenland 3 



Crest with bowlders, Hoyt island 5 



Cairn built by Lieut. Ryder in 1887 on Inugsulik island 6 



Soil crack behind ancient Eskimo igloo, Richardson island, Hubbard 



bay 8 



Eskimo family at Umanak 9 



Gardiner Greene Hubbard (pi. 2) 33 



Alexander Graham Bell (pi. 3) 73 



Supposed birthplace of Leif Erikson , 75 



Vertical section of an apartment 75 



Ruin of Pagan temple at Thyrli 76 



Plan of the house of Erik the Red in Haukadale 77 



Ruin of Sdmsstadir in Higorsardalr 77 



Walls of a Norse ruin in Greenland . 79 



Plan of a Norse ruin in Greenland 79 



Supposed site of the house of Erik the Red in Greenland 80 



Supposed Norse ruin in Massachusetts 81 



Supposed Norse ruin in Massachusetts 82 



Kuskokwim river from Kolmakovsky 85 



Frames for drying fish ........ 87 



Bidarkas (skin canoes) on the lower Kuskokwim 88 



Mumtrekhlagamute 89 



Kulmakovsky 90 



Eskimo monuments 92 



The gold and coal fields of Alaska (pi. 4) 105 



Chilkoot pass— Yukoners approaching summit 106 



Skagway canon — Yukoners en route 109 



View from Dalton trail, between Dalton's post and Hootchi lake 111 



View from near Dawson city 114 



Harlequin duck, king eider, spectacled eider, and Steller's eider 122 



Emperor goose 123 



Sea otter 124 



Barren ground caribou 125 



Ball's mountain sheep 128 



Polar bear 129 



Mike Lebarge 138 



View of Eldorado creek, a branch of the Klondike. 144 



Summit of White pass 148 



Summit of Chilkoot pass 151 



C. D. Sigsbee, Captain U. S. Navy (pi. 5) 193 



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