Transcriber's Note Text emphasis is displayed as _Italic_ and =Bold=. Superscripts are displayed as Y{e}. Whole and fractional numbers are displayed as 6-1/2. [Illustration: +===============+ | OUTING | | | | ADVENTURE | | | | LIBRARY | +===============+ TO KNOW AND YET TO DARE] ADRIFT IN THE ARCTIC ICE PACK +========================================+ | OTHER BOOKS BY | | | | HORACE KEPHART | | | | OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS | | _Illustrated_, $2.50 _net_ | | | | THE BOOK OF CAMPING AND WOODCRAFT | | _Illustrated_, Cloth $1.50 net. | | Leather $3.00 _net_ | | | | SPORTING FIRE ARMS | | 70 _cents net_ | | | | CAMP COOKERY | | 70 _cents net_ | +========================================+ [Illustration: CHART Exhibiting the recent discoveries in the =ARCTIC REGIONS= _projected by Chas. A. Schott, Esq. U. S. Coast Survey, from the latest English publications, and materials deposited with Lieutenant Maury, U. S. Hydrographic Bureau, by E. J. DE HAVEN, ESQ., Commander of U. S. Grinnell Exposition._] OUTING ADVENTURE LIBRARY ADRIFT IN THE ARCTIC ICE PACK From the History of the First U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin By ELISHA KENT KANE, M.D. EDITED BY HORACE KEPHART [Illustration] NEW YORK OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY MCMXVI Copyright, 1915, by OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY _All rights reserved._ INTRODUCTION IT was in the summer of 1845 that Sir John Franklin undertook his fourth voyage into the Arctic regions, in search of a northwest passage, and disappeared forever in that icy waste. Franklin's two ships, the _Erebus_ and the _Terror_, were supposed to be provisioned for three years. When this interval had passed without word of the daring navigator there was grave fear that he had met with disaster. Then began an unparalleled series of search and relief expeditions, public and private, English and American: five separate ones in 1848, three in 1849, ten in 1850, two in 1851, nine in 1852, five in 1853, two in 1854, one in 1855, and one in 1857.