[Illustration: With a fearful lurch she heeled to starboard.
_Frontispiece._ See page 14.]

'MIDST ARCTIC
PERILS

CHAPTER
I.	[Run Down]
II.	[A Struggle for Life]
III.	[Rescued]
IV.	[On Board the "Polarity"]
V.	[Trapped in an Iceberg]
VI.	[An Unpleasant Surprise]
VII.	[The Motor Sleigh is Taken Out]
VIII.	[Neck or Nothing]
IX.	[An Adventurous Journey]
X.	[The Sleep of Death]
XI.	[Crossing the Ice Barrier]
XII.	[Two Days Out]
XIII.	[The Dash for Observation Camp]
XIV.	[Good Work in the Blizzard]
XV.	[Just in Time]
XVI.	[The Crevasse]
XVII.	[Guy in Command]
XVIII.	[The End of the Mammoth]
XIX.	[The Lost "Bird of Freedom"]
XX.	[Abandoned]
XXI.	[Rescued]

ILLUSTRATIONS



[With a fearful lurch she heeled to starboard _Frontispiece_]

[On three sides rose a continuous wall of ice]

[A huge polar bear standing on its hind legs]

[The Bird of Freedom toppled, and like an arrow, plunged into the sea]

[He could see Ranworth dangling inertly at the end of the first rope]

[With a terrific crash the Bird of Freedom toppled completely over]

[Holding one of the hooks in his gloved hand, Travers deftly engaged the hook in the ring-bolt at the bow of the sleigh]

[Right into the eye of the wind the four well-nigh exhausted men struggled]

'MIDST ARCTICPERILS