SPOKTING ADVENTFEES 



IN THE 



NORTHERN SEAS 



CHAPTER I. 



First Trip to Spitzbergen in 1858. Find Schooner Yacht 

 and light Grigs unsuitable. Determine to go again in 

 1859. Hire a suitable Vessel and Crew, and build two 

 Eoats. Lord David Kennedy agrees to accompany me. 

 Contested Election delays our starting. Result of 

 Poll unfortunate alike for Walruses and Constituency. 

 Preliminary Trip to Guernsey. Sail ,from Leith. 

 Steamer a little out in her Reckoning. Dreadful Famine 

 in Lerwick. Gale. Namsen Fiord and River. Salmon 

 Fishing. Terry s Breech-loading Rifles. 



IN August, 1858, while cruising in my yacht 

 the &quot; Ginevra,&quot; of 142 tons, on the coast of 

 Norway, I was induced, by the accounts I re 

 ceived of reindeer and other game to be met 

 with in Spitzbergen, to make a trip across from 

 Hammerfest to that country. It being late in 



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