class="smcap">Getting Recruits

72 IX A Walrus Hunt 79 X Knocking at the Gateway to the Pole 88 XI Close Quarters with the Ice 97 XII The Ice Fight Goes On 106 XIII Cape Sheridan at Last 117 XIV In Winter Quarters 126 XV The Autumn Work 134 XVI The Biggest Game in the Arctic 143 XVII Musk-oxen at Last 151 XVIII The Long Night 162 XIX The Roosevelt's Narrow Escape 172 XX Christmas on the Roosevelt 182 XXI Arctic Ice Sledging as it Really Is 193 XXII Essentials that Brought Success 201 XXIII Off Across the Frozen Sea 213 XXIV The First Open Water 221 XXV Some of My Eskimos Lose their Nerve 230 XXVI Borup's Farthest North 240 XXVII Good-By to Marvin 248 XXVIII We Break all Records 255 XXIX Bartlett Reaches 87° 47´ 264 XXX The Final Spurt Begun 272 XXXI Only One Day from the Pole 280 XXXII We Reach the Pole 287 XXXIII Good-By to the Pole 302 XXXIV Back to Land Again 314 XXXV Last Days at Cape Sheridan 325 Appendix