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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Introduction 1

II. Sir John Franklin. 1818 9

III. Franklin's First Land Journey. 1819-1821 14

IV. Franklin's Second Land Journey. 1825-1827 21

V. Voyage of the Erebus and the Terror. 1845 25

VI. Elisha Kent Kane. 1853 32

VII. Winter in Rensselaer Harbor. 1853-1854 36

VIII. The Eskimos. 1854 40

IX. Hunting in the Icy North 45

X. Home Again. 1855 51

XI. Nordenskjòld and the Northeast. 1878-1879 59

XII. Voyage of the Jeannette. 1879-1881 72

XIII. Greeley in Grinnell Land. 1881-1883 81

XIV. Farthest North of the Greeley Party. 1882 87

XV. Lieutenant Schwatka in Alaska. 1883 94

XVI. Nansen crosses Greenland. 1888 104

XVII. The Voyage of the Fram. 1893-1896 122

XVIII. Peary crosses Greenland. 1891-1897 133

XIX. Andrée's Balloon Expedition to the Pole. 1897 149

XX. Expeditions of 1902 154

XXI. Discovery of the North Pole by Robert E.
Peary. 1909 158