LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Frederick A. Cook[Frontispiece]
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Rudolph Francke in Arctic Costume[12]
Midnight—"A Panorama of Black Lacquer and Silver"[13]
On the Chase for Bear—The Box-House at Annoatok and its Winter Environment[76]
Man's Prey of the Arctic Sea—Walrus Asleep[77]
The Helpers—Northernmost Man and His Wife[108]
A Mecca of Musk Ox Along Eureka Sound—A Native Helper—Ah-We-Lah's Prospective Wife[109]
The Capture of a Bear—Rounding Up a Herd of Musk Oxen[140]
Svartevoeg—Camping 500 Miles from the Pole[141]
"The Igloo Built, We Prepare for Our Daily Camp"[172]
Camping to Eat and Take Observations—On Again[173]
Dashing Forward En Route to the Pole[204]
Departure of Supporting Party—A Breathing Spell—Poleward[205]
Bradley Land Discovered—Submerged Island of Polar Sea—Going Beyond the Bounds of Life[236]
Swift Progress over Smooth Ice—Building an Igloo—A Lifeless World of Cold and Ice[237]
"Too Weary to Build Igloos, We Used the Silk Tent" "Across Seas of Crystal Glory to the Boreal Centre"[268]
Mending Near the Pole[269]
First Camp at the Pole, April 21, 1908[300]
At The Pole—"We Were the Only Pulsating Creatures in a Dead World of Ice"[301]
"With Eager Eyes We Searched the Dusky Plains of Crystal, But There Was No Land, No life, To Relieve the Purple Run of Death"[332]
Record Left in Brass Tube at North Pole[333]
Observation Determining the Pole—Photograph from Original Note[364]
Back to Land and Back to Life—Awakened by a Winged Harbinger[365]
E-Tuk-I-Shook Waiting for a Seal at a Blow Hole[396]
Toward Cape Sparbo in Canvas Boat—Walrus—(Prize of 15-Hour Battle) 4,000 Lbs. of Meat and Fat[397]
Punctured Canvas Boat In Which We Paddled 1,000 Miles—Famine Days, When Only Stray Birds Prevented Starvation—Den In Which We Spent 100 Double Nights[428]
Bull Fights with the Musk Ox About Cape Sparbo[429]
Saved from Starvation—The Result of One of Our Last Cartridges[460]
"Miles and Miles of Desolation"—Homeward Bound[461]
Governor Kraul In His Study—Arrival at Upernavik[492]
Polar Tragedy—A Deserted Child of the Sultan of the North and Its Mother[493]