The loyalty of Philip Staffe to Henry Hudson.--Franklin's crossing of the barren grounds.--The retreat of Ross from the Victory.--The discovery of the Northwest passage.--The timely sledge journey of Bedford Pim.--Kane's rescue of his freezing shipmates.--How Woon won promotion.--The Angekok Kalutunah and the starving whites.--Dr. Rae and the Franklin mystery. --Sonntag's fatal sledge journey.--The heroic devotion of Lady Jane Franklin. --The marvellous lee-drift of Captain Tysen.--The saving of Petersen.--Life on an East Greenland ice-pack.--Parr's lonely march from the great frozen sea. --Relief of American whalers at Point Barrow.--The missionary's Arctic trail. --Schwatka's summer search.--The Inuit survivors of the stone age.--The fidelity of Eskimo Bronlund.--The wifely heroism of Mertuk, the daughter of Shung-Hu