CHAPTER PAGE
I.Answer to an Old Summons[5]
II.I Renew an Old Dream[7]
III.Even Seeking to Realize It[11]
IV.Turning to the Sea, at Last, for Solace[15]
V.I Overhaul the Steam Yacht, Billowcrest[20]
VI.Where All Things Become Possible[49]
VII.I Learn the Way of the Sea, and Enter More Fully Into My Heritage[59]
VIII.The Halcyon Way to the South[70]
IX.Admonition and Counsel[76]
X.Captain Biffer is Assisted by the Pampeiro[86]
XI.In Gloomy Seas[95]
XII.Where Captain Biffer Revises Some Opinions[99]
XIII.In the “Fighting-Top”[106]
XIV.An Excursion and an Experiment[115]
XV.As Reported by My Note-Book[121]
XVI.Following the Pacemaker[134]
XVII.Investigation and Discovery[146]
XVIII.A “Borning” and a Mystery[150]
XIX.A Long Farewell[154]
XX.The Long Dark[174]
XXI.An Arrival and a Departure[183]
XXII.On the Air-Line, South[190]
XXIII.The Cloudcrest Makes a Landing[199]
XXIV.The Great White Way[209]
XXV.Where the Way Ends[215]
XXVI.The Welcome to the Unknown[223]
XXVII.The Prince of the Purple Fields[228]
XXVIII.A Harbor of Forgotten Dreams[235]
XXIX.A Land of the Heart’s Desire[243]
XXX.The Lady of the Lilies[249]
XXXI.The Pole at Last[253]
XXXII.An Offering to the Sun[264]
XXXIII.The Touch of Life[269]
XXXIV.The Pardon of Love[279]
XXXV.Down the River of Coming Dark[290]
XXXVI.The “Passage of the Dead”[293]
XXXVII.The Rising Tide[301]
XXXVIII.Storm and Stress[305]
XXXIX.Where Dreams Become Real[315]
XL.Claiming the Reward[322]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“The South Pole for us all!” (page [58])[Frontispiece]
“Then, somebody was clinging to me”Page [93]
“From our high vantage we could command a vast circle of sunless, melancholy cold”Page [117]
“Cut her, Nick, cut her! I can’t stick on any longer!”Page [202]
The Palace of the Prince
“A harbor for vanished argosies and forgotten dreams”Page [242]
The Pardon of Love
“There fell upon them a long golden bar of the returning sunlight”Page [288]

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
OF
THE GREAT WHITE WAY.

Nicholas Chase, a young man with a dream of discovery, and an inherited love of the sea.

Chauncey Gale, a merry millionaire, with a willingness to back his judgment.

Edith Gale, his daughter, a girl with accomplishments and ideas.

Zar, colored maid and former nurse of Edith Gale. A woman with no “fool notions” about the South Pole.

Ferratoni, an Italian electrician with wireless communication, and subtle psychic theories.

Captain Joseph Biffer, Master of the Billowcrest. An old salt, with little respect for wild expeditions.