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PREFACE
CHAPTER I. – EARLY LIFE
CHAPTER II. – ARMY-LIFE IN ARIZONA
CHAPTER III. – ARMY-LIFE IN NEBRASKA
CHAPTER IV. – ARMY-LIFE IN KANSAS
CHAPTER V. – ARMY-LIFE IN INDIAN TERRITORY AND COLORADO
CHAPTER VI. – PREPARING FOR THE ARCTIC REGIONS
CHAPTER VII. – FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO LADY FRANKLIN BAY
CHAPTER VIII. – HOUSE-BUILDING AND LOCAL EXPLORATIONS
CHAPTER IX. – PRELIMINARY SLEDGE EXPEDITIONS AND LIFE AT THE STATION
CHAPTER X. – “THE ARCTIC MOON.”
CHAPTER XI. – EXPEDITION TO LOCKWOOD ISLAND
CHAPTER XII. – FROM LOCKWOOD ISLAND TO LADY FRANKLIN BAY
CHAPTER XIII. – WAITING AND WATCHING
CHAPTER XIV. – RESUMING A DESPERATE STRUGGLE
CHAPTER XV. – ACROSS GRINNELL LAND
CHAPTER XVI. – PREPARING FOR HOME
CHAPTER XVII. – HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XVIII. – THE FINAL CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER XIX. – THE WOEFUL RETURN
It is believed that this book, with its true but none the less stirring adventures, will be of much interest to the general public, as well as gratifying to the many warm friends of Lieutenant Lockwood. It will likewise correct any erroneous impressions which may have arisen from the publication of garbled extracts from the official journals kept by the different members of the Greely party and, by order of the War Department, laid open to the public. By this order, Lockwood’s journal and those of others became public property, and hence any reference to them in advance of their official publication is allowable.
The few pages devoted to the early life can not be expected to especially interest the general public, but will gratify Lieutenant Lockwood’s friends. They are here produced to give them permanency, and to show his sterling character.
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“I find Annapolis the same as ever. It would hardly do for Rip Van Winkle to go to sleep here, for, when he awoke, he would find no change, not even by death.”
After speaking in the same letter of a man going to purchase implements in Baltimore, he says: “I think it would pay one capable of judging of such things, or one endowed with ‘Lockwood Common Sense,’” this allusion being to an imaginary manual which the children had attributed to their father. The quiet humor of the youthful farmer is manifested in another letter after this fashion: “I have been suffering all the week from the effects of a poison most probably communicated from some vine. It manifests itself pretty much as Job’s troubles showed themselves, and no position of body except standing affords relief. I haven’t yet got down into the ashes. If tartar emetic produced these eruptions, they might be attributed in some way to the evil agency of Mrs. W——.”
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