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  "NO USE, LADS! THE BOAT HAS BEEN SWEPT AWAY" (See page 37)]

  Among the Esquimaux

  OR

  Adventures under the Arctic Circle

  BY

  EDWARD S. ELLIS, A.M.

  AUTHOR OF "The Campers Out," Etc., Etc.

  PHILADELPHIATHE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY1894

  COPYRIGHT 1894 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

  CONTENTS

  CHAP. PAGE

  I TWO PASSENGERS ON THE "NAUTILUS" 7

  II A COLOSSAL SOMERSAULT 16

  III AN ALARMING SITUATION 27

  IV ADRIFT 38

  V AN ICY COUCH 46

  VI MISSING 55

  VII A POINT OF LIGHT 64

  VIII HOPE DEFERRED 73

  IX A STARTLING OCCURRENCE 82

  X AN UGLY CUSTOMER 91

  XI LIVELY TIMES 99

  XII FRED'S EXPERIENCE 108

  XIII THE FOG 117

  XIV A COLLISION 126

  XV THE SOUND OF A VOICE 135

  XVI LAND HO! 144

  XVII DOCAK AND HIS HOME 153

  XVIII A NEW EXPEDITION 162

  XIX A WONDERFUL EXHIBITION 171

  XX THE HERD OF MUSK OXEN 180

  XXI CLOSE QUARTERS 189

  XXII FRED'S TURN 198

  XXIII IN THE CAVERN 207

  XXIV UNWELCOME CALLERS 216

  XXV THE COMING SHADOW 225

  XXVI WALLED IN 234

  XXVII "COME ON!" 243

  XXVIII A HOPELESS TASK 251

  XXIX TEN MILES 260

  XXX THE LAST PAUSE 269

  XXXI ANOTHER SOUND 278

  XXXII THE WILD MEN OF GREENLAND 287

  XXXIII CONCLUSION 301

  AMONG THE ESQUIMAUX