ROUND ABOUT 

 THE NORTH POLE 



CHAPTER I 

 SPITSBERGEN 



Iceland Greenland America Sebastian Cabot Robert Thome The 

 North-east Passage Willoughby Chancellor Borough The North 

 Cape rounded The White Sea reached The First Arctic Search Ex- 

 pedition Pet and Jackman Brunei Cornelis Nai Barents reaches 

 77 20' Second voyage of Nai The Samoyeds Rijp, Jacob Van 

 Heemskerck and Barents Bear Island discovered Spitsbergen dis- 

 covered The Dutch reach 79 49' Stephen Bennet Welden Jonas 

 Poole Henry Hudson reaches 80 23' Poole starts the British whaling 

 trade Baffin's voyages to Spitsbergen Pellham winters at Green 

 Harbour. 



THE story of the lands within the Arctic Circle is 

 a record of the brave deeds of healthy men. 

 This would seem to be true were we to take the story, 

 if we could, back to the days when man followed the 

 retreat of the glaciers, as he may in turn have to retreat 

 before them, such a condition of things being not beyond 

 the range of probability though it may be remote. For 

 the boundaries of the frozen north are not dependent on 

 a line of latitude, and have never been the same from 

 period to period, or even from year to year. In some 

 cases they have changed considerably within the 



