CONTENTS. xxiii 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



PAGE 



The Main Party sent back. — Plunging into the Hummocks again. — 

 Advantages of Dogs. — Camp in an Ice-Cave. — Nursing the Dogs. 



— Snow-Blindness. — A Chapter of Accidents. — Cape Hawks. — 

 Cape Napoleon. — Storm-stayed. — Grinnell Land looming up. — 

 Discovering a Sound. — Ravenous Disposition of Dogs. — A Cheer- 

 less Supper. — Camping in the Open Air. — Prostration of Men 

 and Dogs. — Making the Land at last 322 



CHAPTER XXX. 



The Prospect Ahead. — To Cape Napoleon. — To Cape Frazer. — 

 Traces of Esquimaux. — Rotten Ice. — Kennedy Channel. — Mild- 

 ness of Temperature. — Appearance of Birds. — Geological Feat- 

 ures of Coast. — Vegetation. — Accident to Jensen 333 



CHAPTER XXXL 



A New Start. — Speculations. — In a Fog. — Polar Scenery. — 

 Stopped by Rotten Ice. — Looking Ahead. — Conclusions. — The 

 Open Sea. — Climax of the Journey. — Returning South 343 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



The Open Polar Sea. — Width of the Polar Basin. — Boundaries of 

 the Polar Basin. — Polar Currents. — Polar Ice. — The Ice-Belt. — 

 Arctic Navigation and Discovery. — The Russian Sledge Explora- 

 tions. — Wrangel's Open Sea. — Parry's Boat Expedition. — Dr. 

 Kane's Discoveries. — Expansion of Smith Sound. — General Con- 

 clusions drawn from my own Discoveries and those of my Prede- 

 cessors 353 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



On Board the Schooner. — Review of the Journev. — The Return 

 down Kennedy Channel. — A Severe March in a Snow-Storm. — 

 Rotten Ice. — Effects of a Gale. — Returning through the Hum- 

 mocks. — The Dogs breaking down. — Adrift on a Floe at Cairn 

 Point. — The Open "Water compels us to take to the Land. — 

 Reaching the Schooner. — Projecting a Chart. — The New Sound. 



— My Northern Discoveries 363 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



Inspection of the Schooner. — Method of Repairing. — The Serious 

 Nature of the Injury. — The Schooner unfit for any further Ice- 

 Encounters. — Examination of my Resources. — Plans for the Fu- 

 ture 376 



