CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Phil and Serge]1
II.[Winning the Prize]8
III.[An Undesirable Acquaintance]15
IV.[Across the Continent]22
V.[Five Bull’s-eyes in Six Shots]28
VI.[Phil’s Sad Predicament]36
VII.[The Value of a True Friend]43
VIII.[One Result of Good Shooting]49
IX.[Introducing “Old Kite Roberson”]56
X.[Phil Discovers What He Is]62
XI.[Seals and Seal-skins]68
XII.[Captain Duff’s Shrewdness]75
XIII.[The First Seal-hunt]81
XIV.[Overboard in the North Pacific]88
XV.[Phil Becomes “High Line”]94
XVI.[A Venture into Forbidden Waters]101
XVII.[Cruel Killing of Mother-seals]107
XVIII.[Chased by a Revenue-cutter]113
XIX.[Castaways on Oonimak]119
XX.[Brimstone and Feathers]125
XXI.[Luxury on a Desolate Aleutian Island]132
XXII.[How Jalap Coombs Got His Name]139
XXIII.[Kooga the Aleut, and His Bidarkie]145
XXIV.[A Double Watch for Schooners]151
XXV.[Hunting the Sea-otter]158
XXVI.[Serge Kills a Bear, and Jalap Coombs Disappears]165
XXVII.[Phil Sees Himself as Others See Him]171
XXVIII.[Phil and Serge as Prisoners of War]178
XXIX.[A Cruise on a Bering Sea Cutter]185
XXX.[The Third Lieutenant’s Humiliating Position]192
XXXI.[Where is the Centre of the United States?]199
XXXII.[Why the Cutter Departed without Her Passengers]206
XXXIII.[In Hot Pursuit]213
XXXIV.[Mr. John Ryder’s Story]220
XXXV.[Jalap Coombs’s Philosophy]227
XXXVI.[Lost and Drifting in Bering Sea]234
XXXVII.[Saved by a Miracle]241
XXXVIII.[Japonski’s Temptation and the Fur-trader’s Offer]248
XXXIX.[Serge Recovers a Bit of Lost Property]255
XL.[A Prospect of Snow-shoes and Sledges]262