HUNTERS OF THE GREAT NORTH BY VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, IQ22,
BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE if. . A. BY THE
QUINN ft OOOCN COMPANY RAMWAY. N. J PREFACE WHEN first you leave
home to travel in a foreign land you receive impressions more vivid
than those of any later journey to the same country. If you at once
rush your views and observations into print you are likely to have
an interesting book but not so likely an accurate one. You will
probably regret some parts of that book on grounds of mere regard
for truth, for you will see later that you erred both in
observations and conclusions. When first I went to the polar
regions I came back at the end of a year and a half full of
enthusiasm for the Arctic and for the Eskimos. Luckily that
enthusiasm was translated into the organization of a second expedi
tion that left for the North in seven months, and not into a book
to be published then. As I look over my diaries of that time I
shudder to think how vastly I might have augmented the already
great misknowledge of the Arctic had I published everything I
imagined I had seen and everything I thought I knew. At the Qjid of
my second expedition, after five winters and seven summers in the -
North, I published My Life With the Eskimo New York and London,
1913. So far I have discovered with the help of critics and through
careful re-reading a half dozen errors in that volume. Some of
these have been eliminated as the book has been reprinted the rest
will be rectified in the next printing. At the end of my third
expedition, with a background of ten northern winters and thirteen
summers, I wrote Hi iv PREFACE TheFriendly Arctic New York and
London, 1921. A comparison of that book with the earlier one will
bring out few serious contradictions of fact I hope none, although
it will show a changed point of view but only, I think, in line
with a logical development founded on better understanding. In the
present book I have tried by means of diaries and memory to go back
to the vivid impressions of my first year among the Eskimos for the
story of what I saw and heard. I have tried to tell the story as I
would have told it then, except that the mature knowl edge of ten
succeeding years has been used to eliminate early faults of
observation and conclusion. A good many interesting stories found
in the diaries of my first arctic voyage do not appear in this book
because I now know them to have been based on misapprehensions. In
a sense, the book is therefore less interesting than if I had
published it fourteen years ago but less interesting only to the
extent in which it is more true. The scientific collections made on
the expedition described in this book are now in the Pcabody Museum
of Harvard University and in the Royal Ontario Museum of the
University of Toronto, for those institutions joined in meeting the
expense of my journey down the Mac kenzie. The photographs in this
volume are used by permission of the Peabody Museum, the American
Museum of Natural History of New York, and the De partments of the
Naval Service, Mines, and Colonization of Canada. Single pictures
were furnished by persona friends of the author Harry Anthony,
Hawthorne Daniel and E. M. Kindle. CONTENTS PAGE PREPARATIONS FOR A
LIFEWORK OF EXPLORATION . . i DOWN THE MACKENZIE RIVER THROUGH
2,000 MILES OF INDIAN COUNTRY . . irFIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE
ESKIMOS . . . . 37 CAPTAIN KLINKENBERG SEA WOLF AND DISCOVERER . 47
THE WHALING FLEET SAILS AWAY 57 LEARNING TO LIVE AS AN ESKIMO ON A
DIET OF FISH WITHOUT SALT 64 How AN ESKIMO SAILED THROUGH THE STORM
. . 78 AN AUTUMN JOURNEY THROUGH ARCTIC MOUNTAINS . 88 THE SUN GOES
AWAY FOR THE WINTER . . . .100 LOST IN THE MACKENZIE DELTA 107 AN
ARCTIC CHRISTMAS WITH AN ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 120 THE LIFE AT
TUKTUYAKTOK 133 LEARNING TO BUILD A SNOWHOUSE AND TO BE COM
FORTABLE IN ONE 150 TRAVELS AFTER THE SUN CAME BACK ......
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