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| I THE POLAR FIGHT | [1] |
| II INTO THE BOREAL WILDS | [23] |
| The Yacht Bradley Leaves Gloucester—Invades the MagicWaters of the Arctic Seas—Recollections of BoyhoodAmbitions—Beyond the Arctic Circle—The Weaving ofthe Polar Spell |
| III THE DRIVING SPUR OF THE POLAR QUEST | [42] |
| On the Frigid Pathway of Three Centuries of HeroicMartyrs—Meeting the Strange People of the FarthestNorth—The Life of the Stone Age—On the Chase Withthe Eskimos—Manee and Spartan Eskimo Courage |
| IV TO THE LIMITS OF NAVIGATION | [62] |
| Exciting Hunts for Game With the Eskimos—Arrival atEtah—Speedy Trip to Annoatok, the Windy Place, WhereSupplies are Found in Abundance—Everything Auspiciousfor Dash to the Pole—Determination to Essay the Effort—BradleyInformed—Debark for the Pole—The YachtReturns |
| V PREPARATIONS FOR THE POLAR DASH | [73] |
| An Entire Tribe Breathlessly and Feverishly at Work—MappingOut the Polar Campaign |
| VI THE CURTAIN OF NIGHT DROPS | [81] |
| Tribe of Two Hundred and Fifty Natives Busily BeginPreparations for the Polar Dash—Exciting Hunts for theUnicorn and Other Game From Annoatok to Cape York—EveryAnimal Caught Bearing Upon the Success of theVenture—The Gray-Green Gloom of Twilight in Whichthe Eskimo Women Communicate With the Souls of theDead |
| VII FIRST WEEK OF THE LONG NIGHT | [99] |
| Hunting in the Arctic Twilight—Pursuing Bear, Caribouand Smaller Game in Semi-Gloom |
| VIII THE MOONLIGHT QUEST OF THE WALRUS | [114] |
| Desperate and Dangerous Hunting, in Order to Secure AdequateSupplies for the Polar Dash—A Thrilling and AdventurousRace Is Made Over Frozen Seas and Icy Mountainsto the Walrus Grounds—Terrific Explosion of the Iceon Which the Party Hunts—Success in Securing OverSeven Sled-Loads of Blubber Makes the Pole Seem Nearer—AnArctic Tragedy |
| IX MIDNIGHT AND MID-WINTER | [130] |
| The Equipment and Its Problems—New Art in the Makingof Sledges Combining Lightness—Progress of the Preparations—ChristmasWith Its Glad Tidings and Auguries forSuccess in Quest of the Pole |
| X EN ROUTE FOR THE POLE | [149] |
| The Campaign Opens—Last Weeks of the Polar Night—AdvanceParties Sent Out—Awaiting the Dawn |
| XI EXPLORING A NEW PASS OVER ACPOHON | [162] |
| From the Atlantic Waters at Flagler Bay to the PacificWaters at Bay Fiord—The Mecca of the Musk Ox—BattlesWith the Bovine Monsters of the Arctic—Sunrise and theGlory of Sunset |
| XII IN GAME TRAILS TO LAND'S END | [176] |
| Sverdrup's New Wonderland—Feasting on Game En Routeto Svartevoeg—First Shadow Observations—Fights WithWolves and Bears—The Joys of Zero's Lowest—Thresholdof the Unknown |
| XIII THE TRANS-BOREAL DASH BEGINS | [194] |
| By Forced Efforts and the Use of Axes Speed is Made Overthe Land-Adhering Pack Ice of Polar Sea—The Most DifficultTravel of the Proposed Journey Successfully Accomplished—RegretfulParting With the Eskimos |
| XIV OVER THE POLAR SEA TO THE BIGLEAD | [208] |
| With Two Eskimo Companions, the Race Poleward ContinuesOver Rough and Difficult Ice—The Last Land FadesBehind—Mirages Leap Into Being and Weave a MysticSpell—A Swirling Scene of Moving Ice and Fantastic Effects—Standingon a Hill of Ice, a Black, Writhing, SnakyCut Appears in the Ice Beyond—The Big Lead—A Night ofAnxiety—Five Hundred Miles Already Covered—Four Hundredto the Pole |
| XV CROSSING MOVING SEAS OF ICE | [221] |
| Crossing the Lead—The Thin Ice Heaves Like a Sheet ofRubber—Creeping Forward Cautiously, the Two DangerousMiles are Covered—Bounding Progress Made Over ImprovingIce—The First Hurricane—Dogs Buried and Frozen IntoMasses in Drifts of Snow—The Ice Parts Through the Igloo—Wakingto Find One's Self Falling Into the Cold Sea |
| XVI LAND DISCOVERED | [232] |
| Fighting Progress Through Cutting Cold and TerrificStorms—Life Becomes a Monotonous Routine of Hardship—ThePole Inspires With Its Resistless Lure—New Land DiscoveredBeyond the Eighty-Fourth Parallel—More ThanTwo Hundred Miles From Svartevoeg—The First Six HundredMiles Covered |
| XVII BEYOND THE RANGE OF LIFE | [248] |
| With a New Spring to Weary Legs Bradley Land is LeftBehind—Feeling the Aching Vastness of the World BeforeMan Was Made—Curious Grimaces of the MidnightSun—Sufferings Increase—By Persistent and LaboriousProgress Another Hundred Miles is Covered |
| XVIII OVER POLAR SEAS OF MYSTERY | [260] |
| The Maddening Tortures of a World Where Ice WaterSeems Hot, and Cold Knives Burn One's Hands—AnguishedProgress on the Last Stretch of Two Hundred Miles OverAnchored Land Ice—Days of Suffering and Gloom—TheTime of Despair—"It Is Well to Die," Says Ah-We-Lah;"Beyond is Impossible" |
| XIX TO THE POLE—LAST HUNDREDMILES | [269] |
| Over Plains of Gold and Seas of Palpitating Color the DogTeams, With Noses Down, Tails Erect, Dash SpiritedlyLike Chariot Horses—Chanting Love Songs the EskimosFollow With Swinging Step—Tired Eyes Open to NewGlory—Step by Step, With Thumping Hearts the Earth'sApex Is Neared—At Last! The Goal Is Reached! The Starsand Stripes are Flung to the Frigid Breezes of the NorthPole! |
| XX AT THE NORTH POLE | [286] |
| Observations at the Pole—Meteorological and AstronomicalPhenomena—Singular Stability and Uniformity of theThermometer and Barometer—A Spot Where One's ShadowIs the Same Length Each Hour of the Twenty-Four—EightPolar Altitudes of the Sun |
| XXI THE RETURN—A BATTLE FOR LIFE | [314] |
| Turned Backs to the Pole and to the Sun—The Dogs,Seemingly Glad and Seemingly Sensible That Their NosesWere Pointed Homeward, Barked Shrilly—Suffering FromIntense Depression—The Dangers of Moving Ice, of Stormsand Slow Starvation—The Thought of Five Hundred andTwenty Miles to Land Causes Despair |
| XXII BACK TO LIFE AND BACK TO LAND | [326] |
| The Return—Deluded by Drift and Fog—Carried AstrayOver an Unseen Deep—Travel for Twenty Days in a Worldof Mists, With the Terror of Death—Awakened FromSleep by a Heavenly Song—The First Bird—Followingthe Winged Harbinger—We Reach Land—A Bleak, BarrenIsland Possessing the Charm of Paradise—After DaysVerging on Starvation, We Enjoy a Feast of UncookedGame |
| XXIII OVERLAND TO JONES SOUND | [341] |
| Hours of Icy Torture—A Frigid Summer Storm in the Berg-DrivenArctic Sea—A Perilous Dash Through TwistingLanes of Opening Water in a Canvas Canoe—The Drive ofHunger |
| XXIV UNDER THE WHIP OF FAMINE | [355] |
| By Boat and Sledge, Over the Drifting Ice and Stormy Seasof Jones Sound—From Rock to Rock in Quest of Food—MakingNew Weapons |
| XXV BEAR FIGHTS AND WALRUS BATTLES | [365] |
| Dangerous Adventures in a Canvas Boat—On the Verge ofStarvation, a Massive Brute, Weighing Three ThousandPounds, Is Captured After a Fifteen-Hour Struggle—Robbedof Precious Food by Hungry Bears |
| XXVI BULL FIGHTS WITH THE MUSK OX | [378] |
| An Ancient Cave Explored for Shelter—Death by StarvationAverted by Hand-to-Hand Encounters With WildAnimals |
| XXVII A NEW ART OF CHASE | [393] |
| Three Weeks Before the Sunset of 1908—Revelling in anEden of Game—Peculiarities of Animals of the Arctic—HowNature Dictates Animal Color—The Quest of SmallLife |
| XXVIII A HUNDRED NIGHTS IN AN UNDERGROUNDDEN | [406] |
| Living Like Men of the Stone Age—The Desolation of theLong Night—Life About Cape Sparbo—Preparing Equipmentfor the Return to Greenland—Sunrise, February 11,1909 |
| XXIX HOMEWARD WITH A HALF SLEDGEAND HALF-FILLED STOMACHS | [425] |
| Three Hundred Miles Through Storm and Snow and UpliftedMountains of Ice Troubles—Discover Two Islands—AnnoatokIs Reached—Meeting Harry Whitney—News ofPeary's Seizure of Supplies |
| XXX ANNOATOK TO UPERNAVIK | [447] |
| Eleven Hundred Miles Southward Over Sea and Land—AtEtah—Overland to the Walrus Grounds—Eskimo Comediesand Tragedies—A Record Run Over Melville Bay—FirstNews From Passing Ships—The Eclipse of the Sun—Southwardby Steamer Godthaab |
| XXXI FROM GREENLAND TO COPENHAGEN | [463] |
| Forewarning of the Polar Controversy—Banquet atEggedesminde—On Board the Hans Egede—CablegramsSent From Lerwick—The Ovation at Copenhagen—BewilderedAmidst the General Enthusiasm—Peary's FirstMessages—Embark on Oscar II for New York |
| XXXII COPENHAGEN TO THE UNITEDSTATES | [476] |
| Across the Atlantic—Reception in New York—BewilderingCyclone of Events—Inside News of the Peary Attack—Howthe Web of Shame Was Woven |
| XXXIII THE KEY TO THE CONTROVERSY | [507] |
| Peary and His Past—His Dealing With Rival Explorers—TheDeath of Astrup—The Theft of the "Great IronStone," the Natives' Sole Source of Iron |
| XXXIV THE MT. MCKINLEY BRIBERY | [521] |
| The Bribed, Faked and Forged News Items—The Pro-PearyMoney Powers Encourage Perjury—Mt. McKinley HonestlyClimbed—How, for Peary, a Similar Peak Was Faked |
| XXXV THE DUNKLE-LOOSE FORGERY | [535] |
| Its Pro-Peary Making |
| XXXVI HOW A GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PROSTITUTEDITS NAME | [541] |
| The Washington Verdict—The Copenhagen Verdict |
| Retrospect | [557] |
| The Present Status of the Polar Controversy (Preceding Preface) | [(a)] |
| Dr. Cook Vindicated—His Discovery of the North Pole Endorsed bythe Explorers of all the World. |
| The Peary-Parker-Brown Humbug Up To Date (To Finish Page) | [534] |
| Parker contradicts former Statement—Says he climbed Mt. McKinleyby Northeast Ridge.—The Ridge used by Dr. Cook. |
| Verdict of the Geographic Historian (By Edwin Swift Balch) | [595] |
| Dr. Cook's Record is Accurate—It is Certified—It is Corroborated—Heis the Discoverer of the North Pole. |
| A Request for a National Investigation (By Dr. Frederick A. Cook) | [600] |
| Nation should decide—Congress Should Investigate Rival Claims—Letterto the President. |
| Can the Government Escape the Responsibility (By Fred High, Editorof the Platform) | [605] |
| Cook Should Have a Fair Deal—An Unbiased Comparison—Letters toand from Prominent Men. |
