TABLE OF CONTENTS 
CHAPTER XII p^^,^ 
Pioneering THE Way — Breaking Sledges . . 9^ 
CHAPTER XIII 
The Supporting-Parties Begin to Turn Back . 103 
CHAPTER XIV 
Bartlett's Farthest North — His Quiet Good- 
By 116 
CHAPTER XV 
The Pole! 127 
CHAPTER XVI 
The Fast Trek Back to Land 140 
CHAPTER XVII 
Safe on the Roosevelt — Poor Marvin . . .145 
CHAPTER XVIII 
After Musk-Oxen — The Doctor's Scientific 
Expedition 153 
CHAPTER XIX 
The Roosevelt Starts for Home — Esquimo Vil- 
lages — New Dogs and New Dog Fights . . l6l 
xi 
