CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | [ ix] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | Here Endeth the Lesson | [ 1] |
| II. | Under Weigh | [ 14] |
| III. | In the Land of Adventure | [ 22] |
| IV. | A Truly Glorious Fourth and SomeVery Real Fishing | [ 32] |
| V. | Through the Pack to Disaster | [ 41] |
| VI. | The Heroes of Hopedale | [ 49] |
| VII. | In Eskimo Land and in Trouble | [ 56] |
| VIII. | Greenland! | [ 66] |
| IX. | Ice and More Ice | [ 76] |
| X. | We Take the Air | [ 89] |
| XI. | My Farthest North | [ 107] |
| XII. | We Break Into Society | [ 115] |
| XIII. | Storm and Stress and—Home! | [ 130] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Kennett L. Rawson, June, 1925 | [ Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The journey of the Bowdoin, 1925 (map) | [ 1] |
| The Bowdoin and her crew, Wiscasset, Maine, June 20, 1925. John Jaynes, Engineer; Commander Donald B. MacMillan; Ralph P. Robinson, Mate; Kennett L. Rawson, Cabin Boy; John Reinartz, short wave radio expert; Martin Vorce, Cook; Lieutenant Benjamin Rigg, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; Onnig D. Melkon, moving picture photographer | [ 12] |
| Outward Bound, June, 1925 | [ 20] |
| The Bowdoin leaving the dock at Wiscasset | [ 20] |
| Rawson, MacMillan at the wheel, and Dr. Grosvenor. On way to Sydney | [ 27] |
| “Yonder beneath the North Star lies our destination, Lad.” | [ 27] |
| Commander MacMillan, Dr. Grosvenor and Dr. Grenfell, Battle Harbor | [ 27] |
| Maynard Williams (left), photographer, National Geographic Society; Lieutenant Benjamin Rigg (right), U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | [ 61] |
| The Bowdoin passing an iceberg off west coast of Greenland | [ 63] |
| The Bowdoin caught in a nip, at Melville Bay | [ 63] |
| Commander MacMillan with an Eskimo child; in flying costume; in the ice barrel | [ 90] |
| Brother John’s Glacier and Alida Lake, Etah, North Greenland | [ 90] |
| The Peary | [ 94] |
| Expedition plane at stern of Bowdoin | [ 94] |
| Launching first plane at Etah | [ 95] |
| Eskimo kiddie with mother’s coat on | [ 104] |
| Even Eskimo boys of Ig-loo-da-houny have a sweet tooth | [ 104] |
| In-you-gee-to makes a coil of rawhide line out of skin of which he is justly proud | [ 105] |
| The only Eskimo family in Etah | [ 105] |
| The Bowdoin on the rocks in North Greenland | [ 118] |
| Head of 2000-pound walrus killed at Etah, North Greenland | [ 118] |
| Oomiak: Eskimo women’s boat, made of sealskins | [ 119] |
| South Greenland kayak | [ 119] |
| At Sukkertoppen | [ 122] |
| Dick Salmon with large cod jigged while stormbound in Godthaab Fiord | [ 123] |
| A good Eskimo puppy | [ 126] |
| Typical winter home of South Greenland Eskimo | [ 126] |
| Eskimo girls of Holsteinborg, mixture of Danish, Spanish, English and Eskimo | [ 126] |
| View of Godthaab with statue of Hans Egede, first missionary to the Eskimos of Greenland | [ 130] |
| Norse Church at head of Godthaab Fiord, probably built about 1100 A. D. | [ 130] |
| In rough weather off Nova Scotia, homeward bound | [ 131] |
| The Bowdoin delayed by the storm at Monhegan | [ 131] |
A BOY’S-EYE VIEW OF THE ARCTIC
The journey of the Bowdoin, 1925.
A BOY’S-EYE VIEW OF THE
ARCTIC
I
HERE ENDETH THE LESSON
ONE warm June evening I was sitting up in my room supposedly studying, but actually all thoughts of study had long since gone where most good resolutions go. Who can study on a mild June evening anyway? I can study almost any other time, but on such occasions my thoughts go fluie, and I am off to Treasure Island or with Jules Verne. I was somewhere in those latitudes when a rap sounded on my door. I thought just retribution had overtaken me in the form of a master; so I opened a text book, scattered a few papers about for realistic effect and then went to the door.