Illustrations

Commodore James B. Ford

The Morrissey

Captain Bartlett

Working for the hydrographic office, Navy Department, Washington

Doctor Knud Rasmussen and the author

Iceberg

Flapjacks and maple syrup for supper

Going home to see his missus. Walrus. Rough-legged hawks, young birds. Ringed seal

Eskimo remains. Excavated by Junius B. Bird of the Bartlett East Greenland Expedition

Two of the Morrissey’s mascots

Our shortwave wireless

A whitecoat. Young blue foxes. Young glaucous gulls

Norwegian hunter’s lodge on Shannon Island

Danish hunter of Northeast Greenland and his German police dogs

Elizabeth Angel, Captain Bartlett’s niece, feeds one of the muskox calves at Brigus, Newfoundland

Harry Whitney feeding the muskox calves

Repairs to the steering gear after a brush with the ice in Northeast Greenland – 1930

Dynamiting our way to freedom

Loch Fine. Northeast Greenland

Morrissey taking water from a heavy pan of ice

It was touch and go for awhile with this one

One of the Angmagssalik hunters

Eskimo children of Pingitkalik had a visit from Santa Claus

The young musician. Eskimo boy. Angmagssalik

Stand by to receive our friends the Eskimos

Inughito, the author, and Ootah recall North Pole days with Peary, in the cabin of the Morrissey

Father Neptune comes on board crossing the Arctic Circle

Eskimo woman chewing seal skin. When soft

enough, this will be used for the soles of her

husband’s boots

Eskimo mother. Evaloo

All hands easing berg along edge of ice

The dedication of the Peary monument

After dedication services. The Peary monument

Eskimo of village Pingitkalik. Melville Peninsula

Meat cache of rocks piled up to protect the meat from

the dogs

An Eskimo boy rolls his kayak

Upright again

In ice

Falls of Barrow River. Melville Peninsula

Captain Bartlett and his mother in the garden of his home, “Hawthorne,” Brigus, Newfoundland

The Morrissey in Brigus, Newfoundland