TABLE OF CONTENTS 
CHAPTER V 
Making Peary Sledges — Hunting in the Arctic 
Night — The Excitable Dogs and Their 
Habits 40 
CHAPTER VI 
The Peary Plan — A Rain of Rocks — My 
Friends, the Esquimos 46 
CHAPTER VII 
Sledging to Cape Columbia — Hot Soldering in 
Cold Weather 52 
CHAPTER VIII 
In Camp at Columbia — Literary Igloos — The 
Magnificent Desolation of the Arctic . . 62 
CHAPTER IX 
Ready for the Dash to the Pole — The Com- 
mander's Arrival 70 
CHAPTER X 
Forward! March! 75 
CHAPTER XI 
Fighting up the Polar Sea — Held up by the 
"Big Lead" 78 
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