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CONTENTS 



THE SECOND VOLUME, 



CHAPTER I. 



Anxiety about Aldrich's party — Lieutenant May sent to relieve 

 him — Geese and ducks arrive — Return of Aldrich — Commence- 

 ment of thaw —Extracts from Lieut. Aldrich's official report 



CHAPTER II. 



Decide to return south — Setting-in of the thaw — Musk-oxen shot — 

 Increase and decrease of polar floes — Formation of pen-knife ice 

 — Disruption of floes — Charr — Greenland ice-cap — Drift-wood 

 — Arctic flowering plants — 'Alert' starts for Discovery Bay . 50 



CHAPTER III. 



Greenland party attacked with scurvy — Deaths of two men — Captain 

 Stephenson proceeds to Polaris Bay — Beaumont returns to 

 Discovery Bay — Account of his proceedings . . . .82 



CHAPTER IV. 



Leave Floeberg Beach — Navigation of Robeson Channel — Its extreme 

 difficulty— Cape Union — Stopped at Cape Beechey — Eskimo 

 remains — Brent geese — Rejoin the ' Discovery ' — Killing a 

 musk-ox — Return of Beaumont's party 114 



