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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



Rich vegetation— Belle- 1 Island — Coal seam — Cape Murchison — 

 Leave Discovery Bay — Open water — Kennedy Channel — Stopped 

 by the pack — i Alert ' forced on shore —Severe storm — Stopped off 

 Cape Frazer— Dovekies — Enter Dobbin Bay — Temperature and 

 specific gravity of the sea — Lateness of the season — Formation 

 « of icebergs — Short supply of coal— Pass Victoria Head — Open 

 water — Visit Cape Isabella — News from England — Sir Allen 

 Young — Navigation of Smith Sound .... 



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CHAPTER VI. 



We leave Smith Sound — Dark at midnight — Gale of wind — Barden 

 Bay — Arctic Highlanders — Possession Bay — Cross Baffin's Bay — 

 Temperature of the sea — Arrive at Disco — Egedesminde — Severe 

 gale — Rudder head sprung — Sight the ' Pandora' — Arrive in 

 England — Approval of the Lords of the Admiralty — Letter from 

 Her Majesty the Queen . . . . 



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APPENDIX. 



I. Ethnology . . . . . . .187 



II. Mammalia . . . . . . . 192 



III. Ornithology . . . . . .206 



IV. IchthvologV 218 



V. Mollusca * < .223 



VI. Insecta and Arachrrida . . . ... 234 



VII. Crustacea 240 



VIII. Annelida ....... 257 



IX. Echinodennata . . . . . .260 



X. Polyzoa . . . . . . . 283 



XI. Hydrozoa . . . . . . .200 



XII. Spongida . . . . . . . 293 



XIII. Rhizopoda reticularia ..... 295 



XIV. Botany . . . . . . . . 301 



XV. Geology 327 



XVI. Report on Petermann Glacier . . . . . 346 



XVII. Game List ....... 352 



XVIII. Meteorological Abstract . . . . . 354 



XIX. Abstract of Results obtained from the Tidal Observations . 356 



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