TABLE OF CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Foreword t 
Introduction . . xv 
CHAPTER I 
The Early Years: Schoolboy, Cabin-Boy, Sea- 
man, AND Lieutenant Peary's Body-Servant — 
First Trips to the Arctic 1 
CHAPTER II 
Off for the Pole — How the Other Explorers 
Looked — The Lamb-Like Esquimos — Arrival 
at Etah 15 
CHAPTER III 
Finding op Rudolph Franke — ^Whitney Landed 
— Trading and Coaling — Fighting the Ice- 
packs 26 
CHAPTER IV 
Preparing for Winter at Cape Sheridan — The 
Arctic Library 35 
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