XX CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



PAGE 



Ilartstene Bay — Life-boat Cove — ' Polaris ' winter quarters — 

 Littleton Island — Etah — Cape Isabella — Payer Harbour — Cape 

 Sabine — Hayes Sound — Alexandra Haven — Twin Glacier Valley 

 — Eskimo migration 50 



CHAPTER V. 



Re-enter Smith Sound — Caught in the pack — Escape — Cape 

 Victoria — Franklin Pierce Bay — Walrus — Norman Lockyer 

 Island — Cape Hawks — Washington Irving Island — Dobbin Bay 

 — Dog-sickness — Perilous position of ships — Rounding Cape 

 Frazer 73 



CHAPTER VI. 



Cape John Barrow — Cape Collinson — Open water — Cape Constitu- 

 tion — Bessels Bay — Discovery Harbour — Musk-oxen — Ships 

 part company — Cape Beechey — In the pack — Perilous position 

 — Escape — Cape Union 98 



CHAPTER VII. 



Cape Joseph Henry — Hall's observations — Shut in by the pack — 

 Rawson and Aldrich start — Markham leaves ship — No land to 

 the north — Aldrich returns— Furious gale — Markham's return 

 — Attempt to leave Floeberg Beach — Accident to screw — 

 Frozen in — Departure of autumn sledge parties . . . 130 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Rawson's second start — Aldrich's return- — His journey to Cape 

 Joseph Henry — Heavy snow-fall — Condition of the ice — Rawson 

 returns — Failure to communicate with ' Discovery ' — Markham's 

 return — Frost-bites — Results of autumn sledging . . . 153 



CHAPTER IX. 



Preparations for winter — Dog-sickness — Snow-houses — Ventilation 

 of Arctic ships — Arctic clothing — Astronomical Observations — 

 Fire-hole — Aurora — The moon — The ' Ladies' Mile' — Royal 

 Arctic Theatre — Paraselena— Arctic darkness — High tempera- 

 ture—Christmas — End of the year .174 



