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Title: On the Edge of the Arctic
An Aeroplane in Snowland

Author: Harry Lincoln Sayler

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Language: English

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The Aeroplane Boys Series

ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC

or

An Aeroplane in Snowland

by

ASHTON LAMAR

Illustrated by Norman P. Hall

[Illustration: The _Gitchie Manitou_ ready for its first flight in the
Far North.]

The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chicago

Copyright, 1913
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.
All Rights Reserved

ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Introducing An Airship And Count Zept 9

II A Curious Stranger Learns the Object of the
_Gitchie Manitou_ 27

III Colonel Howell Makes a Novel Proposal 42

IV Colonel Howell Discovers an Old Friend in Jack Zept 58

V Negotiating and Outfitting 72

VI The Expedition Strikes a Snag in Edmonton 86

VII A Tempestuous Voyage to Athabasca Landing 100

VIII Count Zept Makes Himself Known at the Landing 114

IX The Song of the Voyageur 128

X Paul Awakens to the Situation 142

XI Preparing Camp for Winter 155

XII Breasting a Blizzard in an Airship