CONTENTS. xxi 



CHAPTER X. 



PAGE 



Tidal registers — Returning twilight— Snow-floor — Stars in the 

 Milky Way — Mercury frozen — Contraction of cables — Health of 

 the Expedition — Musky flavour of meat — Absence of planets — 

 A lemming captured — Dog-sledging — Temperature of the sea 

 — Return of the sun — Banks raised by ice-pressure — Vegetation 

 at the Pole .217 



CHAPTER XL 



Geographical discoveries — Absence of land to the north — Decide 

 on three lines of exploration — Boats for northern party — Adopt 

 the plan of Sir Edward Parry — Scurvy — Dietaries of sledge 

 crews — Egerton leaves for Discovery Bay — Petersen's illness — 

 Dog sledging — Spring visitants — : Wolves and musk-oxen . . 252 



CHAPTER XII. 



Departure of the sledge parties — News from the ' Discovery ' — 

 Account of Egerton's journey — Trip to Greenland — Dr. Moss 

 and Mr. White return —Arrival of sledges from the 'Discovery' 

 — Archer visits Polaris Bay — Captain Stephenson's arrival — 

 Giffard's return — His party attacked by scurvy — Egerton and 

 Feilden return — Excursion to Cape Joseph Henry — Mount 

 Julia— Return to the < Alert ' 282 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Increase of scurvy— Conybeare arrives from Discovery Bay — Pro- 

 ceedings of parties from ' Discovery ' — Lady Franklin Sound — 

 Boats taken to Greenland — Polaris Bay — Captain Hall's grave 

 — His last record — Chronometer — Vitality of wheat — Cop- 

 pinger's journey 331 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Lieutenant Parr arrives on board ' Alert ' — Distressing condition of 

 northern division of sledges — Relief party start — Death of 

 George Porter — Markham's journey 344 



