| Chapter | Page |
| I. | Northward | [9] |
| II. | Anchored at last | [17] |
| III. | Thrilling Incidents | [23] |
| IV. | Lost and Rescued | [31] |
| V. | More Heroic Excursions | [43] |
| VI. | The Open Sea | [53] |
| VII. | An Important Movement | [60] |
| VIII. | Treaty Making | [68] |
| IX. | Arctic Hunting | [75] |
| X. | Thee Escaping Party | [89] |
| XI. | A Green Spot | [99] |
| XII. | Netlik | [109] |
| XIII. | The Hut | [120] |
| XIV. | Esquimo Treachery | [131] |
| XV. | Lights and Shadows | [142] |
| XVI. | Drugged Esquimo | [150] |
| XVII. | Back Again | [160] |
| XVIII. | Scares | [171] |
| XIX. | Seeking the Esquimo | [179] |
| XX. | Deserters | [186] |
| XXI. | Closing Incidents of the Imprisonment | [194] |
| XXII. | Homeward Bound | [201] |
| XXIII. | Narrow Escapes | [209] |
| XXIV. | Esquimo Kindness | [216] |
| XXV. | Melville Bay | [221] |
| XXVI. | Saved | [228] |
| XXVII. | Off Again | [234] |
| XXVIII. | Colliding Floes | [241] |
| XXIX. | The Winter Home | [249] |
| XXX. | Glaciers | [255] |
| XXXI. | A Strange Dream and its Fulfillment | [263] |
| XXXII. | The Crowning Sledge Journey | [270] |
| XXXIII. | Last Incidents of the Expedition | [279] |
| XXXIV. | Something New | [287] |
| XXXV. | A Fearful Storm | [295] |
| XXXVI. | The Aurora | [304] |
| XXXVII. | The Dying Esquimo | [311] |
| XXXVIII. | Cunning Hunters | [317] |
| XXXIX. | Round Frobisher Bay | [326] |
| XL. | The "Polaris" | [333] |
| XLI. | Disaster | [344] |
| XLII. | The Last of the "Polaris" | [357] |
| XLIII. | The Fearful Situation | [364] |
| XLIV. | The Wonderful Drift | [371] |
| XLV. | The Wonderful Escape | [380] |