CONTENTS 



THE FIRST VOLUME. 



CHAPTER I. 



Departure from Portsmouth — Bantry Bay — Sea birds — Part company 

 with ' Valorous ' — Heavy gales — Carrier pigeons — Dead whale — 

 East Greenland drift ice — Sight ' Valorous ' — Seals and walrus 

 — Description of pack-ice — Antarctic ice — A gale — Discoloura- 

 tion of sea — Inaccuracy of charts — Sight ' Discovery ' — Dredge 

 on Torske bank — Cross Arctic circle— Greenland Mer-de-Glace 



CHAPTER II. 



Cordial reception by the inspector — Appearance of the land — Visit 

 to Ovifak — Temperature of Disco Bay — Icebergs — Eider ducks 

 — Crowded state of Arctic ships — Ritenbenk — Waigat Channel 

 — Last sight of the 'Valorous' — Proven — Upernivik — Leave 

 Ritenbenk — Fastening to an iceberg — Scenery of coast — 

 Geological formation — Hans Heindrich — Sanderson's Hope — 

 Upernivik — Danish officials 15 



CHAPTER III. 



Leave Upernivik — Intricate navigation — 'Alert' aground — The 

 'Middle Ice '—Melville Bay— Cape York and the 'North 

 Water' — Natives of Cape York— Beverley Cliffs — Cary Islands 

 — Northumberland and Hakluyt Islands — Cape Alexander . 34 



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