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PART

I.

Author's Foreword

11

PART

II.

Olaf Jansen's Story

45

PART

III.

Beyond the North Wind

81

PART

IV.

In the Under World

127

PART

V.

Among the Ice Packs

155

PART

VI.

Conclusion

173

PART

VII.

Author's Afterword

184

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"I was left alone with the dead."

Frontispiece

"Twenty-eight years—long, tedious, frightful years of suffering."

49

"A vessel larger than our little fishing sloop could not have threaded its way among the icebergs."

57

"By what miracle we escaped being dashed to destruction, I do not know."

73

"It could hardly be said to resemble the sun except in its circular shape."

89

"They spoke to us in a strange language."

101

"We were brought before the Great High Priest."

121

"There must have been five hundred of these thunder-throated monsters"

135

"My father shouted: 'Breakers ahead!'"

151

"Less than a half mile away was a whaling vessel."

165

"Whereupon I was put in irons."

169