CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Entering Life Bound for- Davis's Straits The First Whale 



Returning Home News of Cholera at Hull ... ... ... I 



CHAPTER II. 



Second Voyage The Remuneration of Whalers A Succession 



of Reverses Rock "Noseing" ... ... ... ... n 



CHAPTER III. 

 Third Voyage Dancing with the Esquimaux- A Melancholy 



Accident Funeral of one of the Crew Black Lead Island 17 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Adverse Experiences Another Death in the Arctic Seas Sir 



John Franklin Expedition An Awful Squeeze ... ... 31 



CHAPTER V. 

 The Fifth Voyage More Experiences The Selection of Boats' 



Crews ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ... 46 



CHAPTER VI. 

 The Last Voyage Change of Master Capturing Polar Bears 53 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Conclusion Advice to Apprentices .. 59 



CHAPTER VIII. 



A Captain's Anxieties and Cares First Voyage as an Harpooner 



Tales of the Press-Gang during the War with France ... 61 



CHAPTER IX. 



Old Truelove Greenland Sealing Melville Bay Squeezes Loss 



of the Princess Charlotte Whaling and Dangers of Whaling 68 



CHAPTER X. 



Fitting out the Emma Striking a Rock Melville Bay Troubles 

 Wrecks of Gipsy and Undaunted Left Alone Description 

 of Sword Fish Visiting Strange Places ... ... ... 77 



