e are doing our best, and it is giving us a great return. We
haven't lost the capacity to enjoy soft things, but we have learned
the joys of trying to endure hardness as good soldiers. Would to God
that every American boy would realize that the only real great prize
of life is to be won by being willing to take blows and willing to
suffer misunderstanding and opposition, so long as he may follow in
the footsteps of that most Peerless Knight that ever lived; He who saw
that the meaning of life was, that in it we might, wherever we are, be
always trying to do good.

Ever your friend,
WILFRED T. GRENFELL.

CONTENTS

I. A BOY AND THE SEA 11

II. SCHOOL--AND AFTER 22

III. WESTWARD HO! FOR LABRADOR 35

IV. HAULED BY THE HUSKIES 74

V. SOME REAL SEA-DOGS 97

VI. HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMO 114

VII. LITTLE PRINCE POMIUK 137

VIII. CAPTURED BY INDIANS 147

IX. ALONE ON THE ICE 162

X. A FIGHT WITH THE SEA 183

XI. THE KIDNAPPERS 201

XII. WHEN THE BIG FISH "STRIKE IN" 230

XIII. BIRDS OF MANY A FEATHER 238

XIV. BEASTS BIG AND LITTLE 249

XV. THE KEEPER OF THE LIGHT 264

XVI. THROUGH THE BLIZZARD 284

XVII. WHY THE DOCTOR WAS LATE 296

The incidents of the first chapter are founded strictly on fact,
but slight liberties have been taken with minor details here and
elsewhere. For example, the Doctor is sometimes represented as
talking with persons whose names stand for types rather than
individuals; and it is the spirit rather than the letter of the
conversations that is reported.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Ford Car Can't Do This _Frontispiece_

Map of Labrador _Facing p._ 36

Castles and Cathedrals of Ice Afloat "