align="justify">The Return—Deluded by Drift and Fog—Carried Astray Over an Unseen Deep—Travel for Twenty Days in a World of Mists, With the Terror of Death—Awakened From Sleep by a Heavenly Song—The First Bird—Following the Winged Harbinger—We Reach Land—A Bleak, Barren Island Possessing the Charm of Paradise—After Days Verging on Starvation, We Enjoy a Feast of Uncooked Game

XXIII OVERLAND TO JONES SOUND 341 Hours of Icy Torture—A Frigid Summer Storm in the Berg-Driven Arctic Sea—A Perilous Dash Through Twisting Lanes of Opening Water in a Canvas Canoe—The Drive of Hunger XXIV UNDER THE WHIP OF FAMINE 355 By Boat and Sledge, Over the Drifting Ice and Stormy Seas of Jones Sound—From Rock to Rock in Quest of Food—Making New Weapons XXV BEAR FIGHTS AND WALRUS BATTLES 365 Dangerous Adventures in a Canvas Boat—On the Verge of Starvation, a Massive Brute, Weighing Three Thousand Pounds, Is Captured After a Fifteen-Hour Struggle—Robbed of Precious Food by Hungry Bears XXVI BULL FIGHTS WITH THE MUSK OX 378 An Ancient Cave Explored for Shelter—Death by Starvation Averted by Hand-to-Hand Encounters With Wild Animals XXVII A NEW ART OF CHASE 393 Three Weeks Before the Sunset of 1908—Revelling in an Eden of Game—Peculiarities of Animals of the Arctic—How Nature Dictates Animal Color—The Quest of Small Life XXVIII A HUNDRED NIGHTS IN AN UNDERGROUND DEN 406 Living Like Men of the Stone Age—The Desolation of the Long Night—Life About Cape Sparbo—Preparing Equipment for the Return to Greenland—Sunrise, February 11, 1909 XXIX HOMEWARD WITH A HALF SLEDGE AND HALF-FILLED STOMACHS 425 Three Hundred Miles Through Storm and Snow and Uplifted Mountains of Ice Troubles—Discover Two Islands—Annoatok Is Reached—Meeting Harry Whitney—News of Peary's Seizure of Supplies XXX ANNOATOK TO UPERNAVIK 447 Eleven Hundred Miles Southward Over Sea and Land—At Etah—Overland to the Walrus Grounds—Eskimo Comedies and Tragedies—A Record Run Over Melville Bay—First News From Passing Ships—The Eclipse of the Sun—Southward by Steamer Godthaab XXXI FROM GREENLAND TO COPENHAGEN 463 Forewarning of the Polar Controversy—Banquet at Eggedesminde—On Board the Hans Egede—Cablegrams Sent From Lerwick—The Ovation at Copenhagen—Bewildered Amidst the General Enthusiasm—Peary's First Messages—Embark on Oscar II for New York XXXII COPENHAGEN TO THE UNITED STATES 476 Across the Atlantic—Reception in New York—Bewildering Cyclone of Events—Inside News of the Peary Attack—How the Web of Shame Was Woven XXXIII THE KEY TO THE CONTROVERSY 507 Peary and His Past—His Dealing With Rival Explorers—The Death of Astrup—The Theft of the "Great Iron Stone," the Natives' Sole Source of Iron XXXIV THE MT. MCKINLEY BRIBERY 521 The Bribed, Faked and Forged News Items—The Pro-Peary Money Powers Encourage Perjury—Mt. McKinley Honestly Climbed—How, for Peary, a Similar Peak Was Faked XXXV THE DUNKLE-LOOSE FORGERY 535 Its Pro-Peary Making XXXVI HOW A GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PROSTITUTED ITS NAME 541 The Washington Verdict—The Copenhagen Verdict Retrospect 557 The Present Status of the Polar Controversy (Preceding Preface) (a) Dr. Cook Vindicated—His Discovery of the North Pole Endorsed by the Explorers of all the World. The Peary-Parker-Brown Humbug Up To Date (To Finish Page) 534 Parker contradicts former Statement—Says he climbed Mt. McKinley by Northeast Ridge.—The Ridge used by Dr. Cook.