ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

Cap’n Bob Bartlett Frontispiece

“They Set Me to Work with a Paint Brush” 6

Will Bartlett, Mate; “Skipper Tom” Gushue, Bo’sun; Ralph Spracklin; and Billy Pritchard, the Cook 7

David and His Corona 12

The Skipper Tells David About Taking Observations 13

David Tries Carrying Art Young Through the Mud 18

In the Cross Trees 19

The Morrissey in Jones Sound 26

A Baffin Bay Portrait of the Author 27

We Get a Basking Shark at Holsteinsborg 34

Carl Shows a South Greenland Youngster how to Use a Pathex Motion Picture Camera 35

Looking Down Over a Bird Rookery 42

Nils, David and Matak, Son of Pooadloona 43

Robert Peary Tries a Kayak 52

Art Young Tries an Eider Duck Egg from the Eskimo Cache on the Duck Islands 53

The King Dog of Governor Otto’s Team, with His Queen 56

Feeding the Dogs at Upernivik 57

In a Fjord Back of Upernivik 64

Tupiks, the Eskimo Summer Houses Made of Skins, at Karnah 65

The Morrissey on the Reef Off Northumberland Island 74

View from Shore of the Wrecked Morrissey 75

Where the Morrissey’s False Keel Ripped Off on the Rocks 80

When the Eskimos Came to Shipwreck Camp on Northumberland Island 81

Art Shoots Ducks Among the Icebergs from the Dory with the Johnson Engine 90

Dad Tries His Hand at Netting Dovekies 91

Carl and Art Try Swimming at the Foot of the Glacier 96

Up on the Glacier, where the Great Ice Cap Comes Down to the Sea 97

Harry Raven, Zoölogist, Shows how to Clean a Narwhal Skull 106

Working on a Narwhal Skeleton 107

Kakutia of Karnah, the Eskimo Artist who Made the Sketches Used in this Book, on the Morrissey in Whale Sound 112

Two Blond Eskimos! David and Nils 113

Pooadloona Throws His Harpoon at a Walrus 118

Walrus on Deck. All the Meat Went to the Eskimos, the Skeletons and Hides to the Museum 119

“Halitosis,” the Baby Walrus Roped By Carl 122

Hoisting a Walrus on Board 123

Dressing a Walrus. Left to Right: Dan, Joe, Art, David and Carl 130

Art and a Dead Walrus on an Ice Pan in Jones Sound 131

Enough for Several Fine Duck Messes 136

Enjoying Our Atwater Kent Radio 137

Kellerman “Shoots” Some Eskimos of Inglefield Gulf 140

Kudluktoo and Matak Show David the Right Way to Eat Narwhal Hide, a Prized Eskimo Delicacy 141

Dr. Rasmussen Shows David an Ancient Eskimo Harpoon Head 150

Two Arctic Hare from Pond’s Inlet 151

The Polar Bears on the Iceberg 158

The Polar Bear and Her Two Cubs Swim Away from the Berg 159

Carl and One of the Polar Bear Cubs He Roped 164

Art Young and the Bear He Killed with Bow and Arrow 165

DAVID GOES TO GREENLAND