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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Walter Wellman Frontispiece
Walter Wellman 8
The Wellman Expedition Steamship Frithjof 16
" Supper is ready, the only glorious hour of the day " 24
" The dogs . . . leaped to the rescue " 33
" The cub bravely attempted to defend himself " 48
Greeting Felix Riesenberg in the Spring 56
Mr. Wellman looking down on Paris in His First Balloon Ascent 65
H. R. H. the Prince of Monaco and Mr. Wellman 80
Tourist Ship at Camp Wellman — Mrs. Vaniman and the Misses Wellman arrive 88
Full length view of the steel car of the America-1907 (115 ft. long) 97
The steel car of the Airship America-1907 104
Section of the steel car of the America-1907 112
The America starting on her voyage —1907 136
The Hydrogen Gas Apparatus at Camp Wellman, Spitzbergen Gas Engineer Hervien 152
Some of the Sledge dogs carried on the Airship in 1909 68
Part of car and one of the motors — 1909 176
View of Camp 'Wellman, Spitzbergen — Balloon House in Foreground — Machine shop, Gas Apparatus, Pumping House at left — At right, site of Andree's Balloon House— Across the bay through dark stretch of sand — Site of old Smeerenberg, the whale city of the Dutch 184
Mr. Wellman, Mr. Vaniman and Capt. English taking astronomical observations — 1909 193
The America ready to leave the Balloon House at Spitzbergen — 1909 200
The America in Flight over the Ice Pack — 1909 208
The America Fighting her way south over the Ice Pack. Photographed from the Steamer Farm 216
Airship America Being Towed by the Steamer Farm — 1909 225
Norwegian Government Steamer Farm nearing the Airship 1909 232
Under view of the America— 1909 — Behind long windows of aft are the Sledge dogs 240
The America after the accident — 1909 — The Retarder improvised as an equilibrator Short body hanging from Airship — All that is left of the equilibrator 218
Boat's crew from the Farm attaching the tow line to the America 257
Another view of the disabled Airship — Boats alongside to take off the crew and valuables —1909 264
The Norwegian Steamer Farm rescuing the Airship crew —1909 272
Taking instruments, dogs and crew from the partly wrecked Airship — 1909 280
Melvin Vaniman at Spitzbergen 289
French Mechanics working on the Airship at Paris — 1910 296
Assembling the parts of the Gas Apparatus, in the factory at Paris — 1910 304
The great hangar of the Airship America at the Inlet — Atlantic City, N. J. 312
From left to right, Vaniman, Simon, Wellman, Aubert and Loud 321
Jack Irwin, wireless operator Airship America 328
The eight cylinder E N V Motor in Place in the steel Can —1910 336
Engine room of the Airship America looking aft 344
Bow view of the Airship America showing U. S. Shield 353
Clever Photographic Combination — the old America shown Flying over Atlantic City 368
The Airship as seen at some distance from the Trent 385
Photograph of the America taken from the Trent 400
Just Before the launching of the Lifeboat — Photograph from the Trent 417
Crew of the America in the Lifeboat after leaving the Airship 432
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