LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Escape out of the Pack, page 86. Drawn by Captain 



W. W. May, R.N. Frontispiece. 



Sketch Map of the Arctic Regions, showing the Track 

 of the ' Fox,' and her Drift down Baffin's Bay ; also, 

 Sketch Map of the Arctic Regions at the time of 

 Franklin's Departure, and showing his supposed 

 Track To face p. ix 



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The Governor in his Oomiak. By Captain W. W. May, R.N. . . 15 



Our Summer Costume . . . . . . . . • • • . 27 



The crow's-nest. By Captain W. W. May, R.N. . . . . 42 



Funeral on the Ice — Paraselense and Lunar halos, 4th December, 



1857. By Captain W. W. May, R.N. 58 



Section of Seal's Cave in the Ice . . . . 75 



The Greenlander's Supper appropriated by a Bear . . . . 83 



Perilous Position of the ' Fox ' near Buchan Island, 7th June, 



1858. By Captain W. W. May, R.N. 104 



Esquimaux near Cape York watching the Approach of the ' Fox ; ' 



also Christian in his kayak. From a Sketch by Captain 



Allen Young 112 



Final Liberation from the Melville Bay ice, 2nd July, 1858. 



From a Sketch by Captain Allen Young . . . . . . 118 



Village and Glacier of Kapar5ktolik, 4th August, 1858. By 



Captain W. W. May, R.N. 133 



The Three Graves, and Depot House, Beechey Island. By 



Captain W. W. May, R.N. 147 



Departure from Beechey Island, 16th August, 1858. By Captain 



W. W. May, R.N M9 



Stranded mass of heavy floe ice. By P. Skelton, from a Sketch by 



Captain Allen Young . . . . • • J 55 



Bellot Strait, 1st September, 1858. By Captain W. W. May, R.N. 164 

 Greenland dog-sledge . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 1 72 



Interior of the Magnetic Observatory. By Captain W. W. May, 



R.N. . . ' 179 



