PERILS AND ESCAPES AMONG ICEBERGS I 



THE 



A HISTORY OF 



ALL THE RESEARCHES AND DISCOVERIES 



IN THE 



FROZEN REGIONS OF THE NORTH, 



FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES; 



With Sketches of The Cabots, Frobisher, Hudson, Baffin, Behring, Cook, Ross, 

 Franklin, Parry, Back, Eae, McClintock, Kane, Hayes, Hall, and othersi 



WHO IN THEIR PERILOUS EXPLORATIONS DEFIED HUNGER, COLD, UNTOLD SUFFERINGS 

 AND DEATH ITSELF TO REVEAL THE MYSTERIES OF THIS WON- 

 DERFUL PORTION OF THE GLOBE. 



By EPES SARGENT, ESQ. 



TOGETHER WITH A COMPLETE AND RELIABLE HISTORY OF 



THE POLARIS EXPEDITION 



UNDER THE LATE CAPTAIN C. F. HALL, FROM OFFICIAL AND TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES, 



EMBRACING THE IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES OF THIS HEROIC EXPLORER, WHO 

 ATTAINED A LATITUDE FARTHER NORTH THAN EVER BEFORE REACHED; 



His SINGULAR AND UNTIMELY DEATH ON THE VERY EVE OF HIS 



GREAT TRIUMPH ; THE REMARKABLE RESCUE OF CAPTAIN 



TYSON AND OTHERS OF THK C'KEW FROM A FLOATING 



FIELD OF ICE, ETC., ETC., ETC. 



BY WILLIAM II. CUNNINGTON, 



Special Correspondent of the Philadelphia Age. 

 WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. 



SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. 



PHILADELPHIA : 

 JOHN E. POTTER AND COMPANY, 



617 SANSOM STSEET. 



