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| I THE POLAR FIGHT | 1 |
| II INTO THE BOREAL WILDS | 23 |
| The Yacht Bradley Leaves Gloucester—Invades the Magic Waters of the Arctic Seas—Recollections of Boyhood Ambitions—Beyond the Arctic Circle—The Weaving of the Polar Spell |
| III THE DRIVING SPUR OF THE POLAR QUEST | 42 |
| On the Frigid Pathway of Three Centuries of Heroic Martyrs—Meeting the Strange People of the Farthest North—The Life of the Stone Age—On the Chase With the Eskimos—Manee and Spartan Eskimo Courage |
| IV TO THE LIMITS OF NAVIGATION | 62 |
| Exciting Hunts for Game With the Eskimos—Arrival at Etah—Speedy Trip to Annoatok, the Windy Place, Where Supplies are Found in Abundance—Everything Auspicious for Dash to the Pole—Determination to Essay the Effort—Bradley Informed—Debark for the Pole—The Yacht Returns |
| V PREPARATIONS FOR THE POLAR DASH | 73 |
| An Entire Tribe Breathlessly and Feverishly at Work—Mapping Out the Polar Campaign |
| VI THE CURTAIN OF NIGHT DROPS | 81 |
| Tribe of Two Hundred and Fifty Natives Busily Begin Preparations for the Polar Dash—Exciting Hunts for the Unicorn and Other Game From Annoatok to Cape York—Every Animal Caught Bearing Upon the Success of the Venture—The Gray-Green Gloom of Twilight in Which the Eskimo Women Communicate With the Souls of the Dead |
| VII FIRST WEEK OF THE LONG NIGHT | 99 |
| Hunting in the Arctic Twilight—Pursuing Bear, Caribou and Smaller Game in Semi-Gloom |
| VIII THE MOONLIGHT QUEST OF THE WALRUS | 114 |
| Desperate and Dangerous Hunting, in Order to Secure Adequate Supplies for the Polar Dash—A Thrilling and Adventurous Race Is Made Over Frozen Seas and Icy Mountains to the Walrus Grounds—Terrific Explosion of the Ice on Which the Party Hunts—Success in Securing Over Seven Sled-Loads of Blubber Makes the Pole Seem Nearer—An Arctic Tragedy |
| IX MIDNIGHT AND MID-WINTER | 130 |
| The Equipment and Its Problems—New Art in the Making of Sledges Combining Lightness—Progress of the Preparations—Christmas With Its Glad Tidings and Auguries for Success in Quest of the Pole |
| X EN ROUTE FOR THE POLE | 149 |
| The Campaign Opens—Last Weeks of the Polar Night—Advance Parties Sent Out—Awaiting the Dawn |
| XI EXPLORING A NEW PASS OVER ACPOHON | 162 |
| From the Atlantic Waters at Flagler Bay to the Pacific Waters at Bay Fiord—The Mecca of the Musk Ox—Battles With the Bovine Monsters of the Arctic—Sunrise and the Glory of Sunset |
| XII IN GAME TRAILS TO LAND'S END | 176 |
| Sverdrup's New Wonderland—Feasting on Game En Route to Svartevoeg—First Shadow Observations—Fights With Wolves and Bears—The Joys of Zero's Lowest—Threshold of the Unknown |
| XIII THE TRANS-BOREAL DASH BEGINS | 194 |
| By Forced Efforts and the Use of Axes Speed is Made Over the Land-Adhering Pack Ice of Polar Sea—The Most Difficult Travel of the Proposed Journey Successfully Accomplished—Regretful Parting With the Eskimos |
| XIV OVER THE POLAR SEA TO THE BIG LEAD | 208 |
| With Two Eskimo Companions, the Race Poleward Continues Over Rough and Difficult Ice—The Last Land Fades Behind—Mirages Leap Into Being and Weave a Mystic Spell—A Swirling Scene of Moving Ice and Fantastic Effects—Standing on a Hill of Ice, a Black, Writhing, Snaky Cut Appears in the Ice Beyond—The Big Lead—A Night of Anxiety—Five Hundred Miles Already Covered—Four Hundred to the Pole |
| XV CROSSING MOVING SEAS OF ICE | 221 |
| Crossing the Lead—The Thin Ice Heaves Like a Sheet of Rubber—Creeping Forward Cautiously, the Two Dangerous Miles are Covered—Bounding Progress Made Over Improving Ice—The First Hurricane—Dogs Buried and Frozen Into Masses in Drifts of Snow—The Ice Parts Through the Igloo—Waking to Find One's Self Falling Into the Cold Sea |
| XVI LAND DISCOVERED | 232 |
| Fighting Progress Through Cutting Cold and Terrific Storms—Life Becomes a Monotonous Routine of Hardship—The Pole Inspires With Its Resistless Lure—New Land Discovered Beyond the Eighty-Fourth Parallel—More Than Two Hundred Miles From Svartevoeg—The First Six Hundred Miles Covered |
| XVII BEYOND THE RANGE OF LIFE | 248 |
| With a New Spring to Weary Legs Bradley Land is Left Behind—Feeling the Aching Vastness of the World Before Man Was Made—Curious Grimaces of the Midnight Sun—Sufferings Increase—By Persistent and Laborious Progress Another Hundred Miles is Covered |
| XVIII OVER POLAR SEAS OF MYSTERY | 260 |
| The Maddening Tortures of a World Where Ice Water S
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