The names of the chief explorers are given at the top of the map.
AFRICA AS KNOWN IN 1676 (from Dapper's _Atlas_) .-- This includes a knowledge of most of the African river sand lakes due to the explorations of the Portuguese.
AFRICA (made specially for this volume, to show chief explorations and partition) .-- The names of the explorers are given at the foot of the map itself.
NORTH POLAR REGIONS, WESTERN HALF (prepared specially for the present volume from the _Citizen's Atlas_, by kind permission of Messrs.
Bartholomew) .-- This gives the results of the discoveries due to Franklin expeditions and most of the searchers after the North-West Passage.
NORTH POLAR REGIONS, EASTERN HALF .-- This gives the Siberian coast investigated by the Russians and Nordenskiold, as well as Nansen's _Farthest North_.
CLIMBING THE NORTH POLE (prepared specially for this volume).

Giving in graphic form the names of the chief Arctic travellers and the latitude N.reached from John Davis (1587) to Nansen (1895).
THE STORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY.