CHAPTER XXXVI. 



THE ARCTIC SUMMER. — THE FLORA. — THE ICE DISSOLVING. — A SUMMER STORM 

 OF RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW. — THE TERRACES. —ICE ACTION. -UPHEAVAL OF 

 THE COAST. — GEOLOGICAL INTEREST OF ICEBERGS AND THE LAND-ICE. — 

 A WALRUS HUNT. — THE " FOURTH." — VISIT TO LITTLETON ISLAND. — GREAT 

 NUMBERS OP EIDER-DUCKS AND GULLS. — THE ICE BREAKING UP. — CRITI- 

 CAL SITUATION OF THE SCHOONER. —TAKING LEAVE OF THE ESQUIMAUX. 

 — ADIEU TO PORT FOULKE. 



The reader will have observed the marvelous 

 chang^e that had come over the face of Nature since 

 the shadow of the night had passed away. Recalling 

 those chapters which recount the gloom and silence of 

 the Arctic night, — the death-like quiet which reigned 

 in the endless darkness, — the absence of every living 

 thing that could relieve the solitude of its terrors, — 

 he will perhaps hardly have been prepared to see, 

 without surprise, the same landscape covered with an 

 endless blaze of light, the air and sea and earth teem- 

 ing with life, the desert places sparkling with green, 

 and brightening with flowers, — the mind finding 

 everywhere some new object of pleasure, where be- 

 fore there was but gloom. The change of the Arctic 

 winter to the Arctic summer is indeed the change 

 from death to life ; and the voice which speaks to the 

 sun and the winds, and brings back the joyous day, is 

 that same voice which said 



" She is not dead, but sleepeth," — 



and the pulseless heart was made to throb again, and 

 the bloom returned to the pallid cheek. 



