CONTENTS. 



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Introduction Page xxv 



CHAPTER I. 



Cause of delay in equipment — Fittings of the ' Fox ' — Volunteers for 

 arctic service — Assistance from public departments — Reflections 

 upon the undertaking — Instructions and departure — Orkneys and 

 Greenland — Fine arctic scenery — Danish establishments in Green- 

 land — Frederickshaab, in Davis' Strait I 



CHAPTER II. 



Fiskernaes and Esquimaux — The ' Fox ' reaches Disco — Disco Fiord 



— Summer scenery — Waigat Strait — Coaling from the mine — 

 Purchasing Esquimaux dogs — Heavy gale off Upernivik — Melville 

 Bay — The middle ice — The great glacier of Greenland — Do Rein- 

 deer cross the glacier ? .. .. .. .. .. . . 1 6 



CHAPTER III. 



Melville Bay — Crow's-nest — Beset in Melville Bay — Signs of winter 



— The coming storm — Drifting in the pack — Canine appetite — 

 Resigned to a winter in the pack — Dinner stolen by sharks — The 

 arctic shark — White whales and Killers 29 



CHAPTER IV. 



Snow crystals — Dogs will not eat raven — An arctic school — The 

 dogs invade us — Bear-hunting by night — Ice-artillery — Arctic 

 palates — Sudden rise of temperature — Freezing of salt-water — 

 Harvey's idea of a sortie 43 



CHAPTER V. 



Burial in the pack — Musk oxen in lat. 8o° north — Habits of the arctic 

 f ox — The aurora affects the electrometer — An arctic Christmas — 

 Sufferings of Dr. Hayes' boat party — Ice acted on by wind only — 

 How the sun ousht to be welcomed — Constant action of the ice — 



Return of the seals — Revolving storm 59 



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