SOUTH COAST of NORTH DEVON ISLAND. 
CHAPTER IV. 
AN HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF THE DISCOVERIES AND 
EXPLORATIONS IN ARCTIC AMERICA. 
a SUMMARY of Arctic explorations must be confined to a brief 
statement of the objects and achievements of the various expe- 
ditions, and in consequence loses the charm of the matter of fact 
manner in which the dangers, difficulties and hardships are 
recorded in the different narratives. 
The history of the exploration of the American Arctics opens 
with the first voyage of Sir Martin Frobisher, in 1576, and 
practically closes with the return of Sverdrup in the Fram, in 
