Generalization and criticism have been made always with reference to later exploration, which necessarily enhances or diminishes the importance of any original work.
CONTENTS
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| I. | Louis Joliet, Re-discoverer of the Mississippi, | [9] |
| II. | Peter le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville, Founder ofLouisiana, | [41] |
| III. | Jonathan Carver, the Explorer of Minnesota, | [71] |
| IV. | Captain Robert Gray, the Discoverer of the ColumbiaRiver, | [88] |
| V. | Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieut. WilliamClark, First Trans-Continental Explorers ofthe United States, | [105] |
| VI. | Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Explorer of the Sourcesof the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, | [163] |
| VII. | Charles Wilkes, the Discoverer of the AntarcticContinent, | [194] |
| VIII. | John Charles Frémont, the Pathfinder, | [212] |
| IX. | Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorer, | [240] |
| X. | Isaac Israel Hayes, and the Open Polar Sea, | [272] |
| XI. | Charles Francis Hall, and the North Pole, | [293] |
| XII. | George Washington De Long, and the SiberianArctic Ocean, | [312] |
| XIII. | Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, Discoverer of the Dwarfsand Gorillas, | [330] |
| XIV. | Stanley Africanus and the Congo Free State, | [349] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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| General A. W. Greely, U. S. A., (Frontispiece.) | |
| On the Shores of the Pacific, | [96] |
| A Blackfoot Tepee, | [112] |
| Castle Rock, on the Columbia River, | [140] |
| Charles Wilkes, | [194] |
| Paul Belloni du Chaillu, | [330] |
| Henry M. Stanley, | [349] |
| ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT | |
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| Signature of Jolliet (Old Spelling), | [10] |
| “Marquette’s Map,” | [15] |
| The Reception of Joliet and Marquette by the Illinois, | [25] |
| De Soto, | [34] |
| Signature of le Moyne, | [42] |
| Bienville, | [57] |
| Bienville’s Army on the River, | [63] |
| New Orleans in 1719, | [70] |
| Indian Tomahawk, | [74] |
| The Falls of St. Anthony in the River Mississippi, | [77] |
| A Calumet, | [80] |
| Naudowessie Indians, | [85] |
| Indian Maul, | [93] |
| Captain Meriwether Lewis, | [119] |
| Buffalo Head, | [125] |
| Lieutenant William Clark, | [132] |
| Buffalo Skull, | [162] |
| General Z. M. Pike, | [165] |
| Indian Snow-shoes, | [172] |
| The Ice-barrier, | [199] |
| The Vincennes in a Storm, | [202] |
| View of the Antarctic Continent, | [205] |
| In an Ice-field, | [208] |
| John Charles Frémont, | [214] |
| Jessie Benton Frémont, | [215] |
| Ascending Frémont’s Peak, | [218] |
| Kit Carson, | [226] |
| Lake Klamath, | [231] |
| Elisha Kent Kane, | [242] |
| The Arctic Highway, | [246] |
| A Sleeping-bag for Three Men, | [251] |
| The Coming Arctic Night, | [256] |
| Esquimau Boys Fishing, | [260] |
| An Arctic Stream, | [264] |
| Isaac Israel Hayes, | [273] |
| Upernivik, | [276] |
| Hayes’s Winter-quarters, | [280] |
| Adrift on a Berg, | [285] |
| Charles Francis Hall, | [294] |
| Igloos, or Esquimau Huts, | [299] |
| In Winter-quarters, | [302] |
| An Arctic Fiord, | [305] |
| A Woman of the Arctic Highlanders. Sketched from Life, | [308] |
| Esquimau Woman. Sketched from Life, | [310] |
| George Washington De Long, | [313] |
| Herald Island, | [317] |
| In the Pack, | [321] |
| Where the Bodies were Found, | [323] |
| Noros and Nindemann, | [326] |
| Finding the Bodies, | [328] |
| The Gorilla (Troglodytes Gorilla), | [334] |
| A Village of Dwarfs, | [339] |
| A Pigmy Warrior, | [342] |
| A Dwarf Prisoner, | [345] |
| Arrows of the African Pigmies, | [348] |
| The Hut where Livingstone Died, | [352] |
| Map showing Position and Boundaries of the Congo State, | [355] |
| Tippu Tib, | [359] |
| Emin Pasha, | [363] |
| Finding Nelson in Distress at Starvation Camp, | [366] |
| A Stockaded Camp, | [370] |
| Ruwenzori (The Snowy Mountain), Identified byStanley with “The Mountains of the Moon,” | [372] |
EXPLORERS AND TRAVELLERS