Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16

AS RELATED BY HER MASTER, ROBERT A. BARTLETT, AND HERE SET DOWN BY RALPH T. HALE

Illustrated from charts and photographs

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1916
By SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

TO
MRS. WILLIAM BARTLETT

CONTENTS

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IThe Expedition and its Objects[1]
IIThe Voyage Begins[10]
IIIWe Meet the Ice and get a Polar Bear[16]
IVWe Are Frozen in[23]
VOur Westward Drift Begins[29]
VIStefansson’s Departure[34]
VIIDriven by the Storm[39]
VIIIWe Drift Away from the Land[48]
IXIn Winter Quarters[59]
XThe Arctic Night[71]
XIThe Sinking of the Karluk[83]
XIIOur Home at Shipwreck Camp[93]
XIIIWe Begin Our Sledging[105]
XIVThe Sun Comes Back[117]
XVThe Return of Mamen and the Departure of the Doctor’s Party[124]
XVIOver the Ice Towards Wrangell Island[137]
XVIIThrough the Pressure Ridge[150]
XVIIIWe Land on Wrangell Island[161]
XIXKataktovick and I Start for Siberia[171]
XXAcross the Moving Ice[179]
XXIIn Sight of Land[194]
XXIIWe Meet the Chuckches[207]
XXIIIEastward Along the Tundra[220]
XXIVColt[231]
XXV“Music Hath Charms”[242]
XXVIWe Arrive at East Cape [253]
XXVIIWith Baron Kleist to Emma Harbor[264]
XXVIIIIn Touch With the World Again [280]
XXIXWaiting[285]
XXXOff for Wrangell Island [297]
XXXIThe Rescue from Wrangell Island [311]