| Dr. Kane's Men Hauling Their Boat Over Rough Ice | [Frontispiece] |
| From a sketch by Dr. Kane. | |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Henry Hudson's Last Voyage | [4] |
| From the painting by the Hon. John Collier. | |
| "We Were Nearly Carried Off, Boat and All, Many Times during This Dreadful Night" | [208] |
| From Tyson's Arctic Experiences. | |
| A Group of the Eskimo Inuits | [334] |
LIST OF MAPS
| PAGE | |
| The Arctic Regions of the New World | [2] |
| Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait | [5] |
| Barren Grounds of Northwestern Canada | [16] |
| Boothia Peninsula and North Somerset | [41] |
| Franklin's Route on Northwest Passage | [58] |
| Route of Pim's Sledge Journey | [75] |
| Smith Sound and West Greenland | [95] |
| Boothia and Melville Peninsulas | [141] |
| King William Land | [177] |
| Robeson Channel and Lady Franklin Bay | [217] |
| Southeastern Greenland | [235] |
| Great Frozen Sea and Robeson Channel | [255] |
| Northwestern Alaska | [273] |
| Liverpool Bay Region | [297] |
| Amdrup and Hazen Lands, Greenland | [351] |
THE LOYALTY OF PHILIP STAFFE TO HENRY HUDSON
"You, Philip Staffe, the only one who chose
Freely to share with us the shallop's fate,
Rather than travel in the hell-bound ship—
Too good an English sailor to desert
Your crippled comrades."
—Van Dyke.