x CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XL PAGE. 



Through Melville and Return Disputes with the West Land 

 Esquimaux Astonishment and Endurance of Natives 

 Their Kindness to the Americans Struck by a Whale 

 Return Home ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 91 



CHAPTER XII. 



A New Venture Counting Chickens before they are Hatched 

 Taking the Pack Getting Stove Death of the Doctor 1st 

 of May Proceedings Encounters with Bears Testing a 

 Bomb-Lance on a Finner Whale ... .. ... ... no 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 Hard Times Drooping Spirits A Floating Island Brooming 



Mirages Once More nearly Trapped ... ... ... 121 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Appointment as Master Heavy Swell Providential Escape 

 from an Iceberg Early Ice Pressures Disappointment and 

 its Consequences Melville Bay and Its Dangers Wrecks- 

 Successes and Reverses ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 28 



CHAPTER XV. 



First Experience in a Steam Whaler Sealing on the Newfound- 

 land Coast Hospitality of its People Broken Propellers 

 Wrecks on the Coast Successful Whaling in Pond's Bay 

 A Pleasant Voyage .. .. ... ... ... ... 143 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Back in a Sailing Vessel Toils and Disappointments Danger 

 from Bergs and Longing for Steam Unfair Fishing Native 

 Traditions handed down.. ... ... ... ... 158 



CHAPTER XVII. 



In a Steamer again Success at Sealing History of Jan Mayen's 

 Island Sealing Grounds Mode of Killing Seals Thick 

 Ice 166 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Greenland and Its Difficulties Return to Shetland Davis's 

 Straits and Its Troubles Difference in Steamers and their 

 Power Melville Bay again Looking for Whales Farewell 

 to the Land of Perpetual Ice and Snow ... 176 



APPENDIX 198 



