LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Commander Robert Edwin Peary[Frontispiece]
Hondius his Map of the Arctike Pole, or Northerne World[xx]
FACING PAGE
Sebastian Cabot[3]
Sir Hugh Willoughby[7]
Martin Frobisher[10]
Sir Humphrey Gilbert[14]
Davis’s Ships Sunshine and Moonshine[17]
The Death of Henry Hudson[21]
Peter Feodorovitsch Anjou[28]
Ferdinand von Wrangell[28]
Captain John Ross, R.N.[32]
Entering Lancaster Sound[52]
John Franklin[80]
Upernavik[99]
Henry Grinnell[110]
The Graves on Beechey Island[113]
E. K. Kane[120]
The Rescue in Melville Bay[128]
Landing near Grinnell Cape[170]
Nipped in the Ice[180]
A Gale in the Arctic Sea[209]
The Outlook from Cape George Russell[215]
Humboldt Glacier[218]
I. I. Hayes[224]
Five Members of the Grinnell Expedition[231]
Tennyson’s Monument[234]
Frobisher’s Map of Meta Incognita[243]
Funeral of Captain Hall[254]
Jan Mayen Island[273]
A. E. Nordenskjöld[288]
Foul Bay[305]
The Vega in Konyam Bay[309]
The Crew of the Vega[316]
Disco Island[320]
Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, U.S.A.[337]
W. H. Gilder[344]
Captain G. W. De Long, U.S.N.[352]
Rear Admiral George W. Melville, U.S.N.[369]
Colonel David Legge Brainard, U.S.A.[373]
Lieutenant James B. Lockwood, U.S.A.[380]
General A. W. Greely, U.S.A.[384]
Rear Admiral Schley, U.S.N.[400]
The Retreat of 1904—Sledge Column leaving Cape Mellinbock[433]
Breaking Camp at Cape Richthope[433]
Anthony Fiala[437]
Roald Amundsen[444]
Cape Flora in Early July, 1904[448]
The Coal Mine at Cape Flora[448]
The Roosevelt drying her Sails[456]
Cairn erected over the Body of Marvin[460]
Camp Morris Jesup[462]
The Peary Sledge[464]
Christmas Dinner on the Roosevelt[464]
The Flag that Peary carried to the Pole[468]
Map of Arctic Explorations, 1860-1909[474]

Transcriber’s Note: There are nine additional illustrations not listed above:

Admiral Sir Edward Belcher[142]
Admiral Sir Edward Inglefield, R. N.[147]
Map of North America[173]
Sir John Franklin’s Record[192]
Captain Hall and Eskimos[247]
Captain G. S. Nares, F. R. S.[310]
Commander A. H. Markham[311]
Anniversary Lodge Cross Section[461]
The Route Taken by Commander Peary in 1908[469]

Transcriber’s Note: image is clickable for a larger version

HONDIUS HIS MAP OF THE ARCTIKE POLE, OR NORTHERNE WORLD

THE GREAT WHITE NORTH