xx CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



bear-fight — An ice-nip — Strong gales, rapid drift — Breaking up 

 of the ice — Hanging on to floe-edge — The arctic bear — An ice 

 tournament — Escape out of the pack — A storm in the pack — 

 Description of the escape Page 74 



CHAPTER VII. 



A holiday in Greenland — A lady blue with cold — The loves of Green - 

 landers — Close shaving — Meet the whalers — Information of 

 whalers — Disco — Danish hospitality — Sail from Disco — Coaling 

 — Kindness of the whalers — Danish establishments in Green- 

 land 9° 



CHAPTER VIII. 



' Fox' nearly wrecked — Afloat, and push ahead — Arctic hair-breadth 

 escapes — Nearly caught in the pack — Shooting little auks — The 

 arctic highlanders — Cape York — Crimson snow — Struggling to 

 the westward — Reach the West-land — Off the entrance of Lan- 

 caster Sound . . . . , 105 



CHAPTER IX. 



Off Cape Warrender — Sight the whalers again — Enter Pond's Bay — 

 Communicate with Esquimaux — Ascend Pond's Inlet — Esquimaux 

 information — Arctic summer abode — An arctic village — No in- 

 telligence of Franklin's ships — Arctic trading — Geographical infor- 

 mation of natives — Information of Rae's visit — Improvidence of 

 Esquimaux — Travels of Esquimaux . . . . . . . . 124 



CHAPTER X. 



Leave Pond's Bay — A gale in Lancaster Sound — The Beechey Island 

 depot — An arctic monument — Reflections at Beechey Island — 

 Proceed up Barrow's Strait — Peel Sound — Port Leopold — Prince 

 Regent's Inlet — Bellot Strait — Flood-tide from the west — Unsuc- 

 cessful efforts — Fox's Hole — No water to the west — Precautionary 

 measures — Fourth attempt to pass through 142 



