CONTENTS. XI 



Final Tragedy. Death of eighteen Men from Scurvy 

 and Hunger. Ingenious Counter-irritant. Eussian 

 Bath. Cricket. Boats sewed together. Post Office. 

 Signs of Deer. Kill three Geese with Ball. Find the 

 &quot; Ginevra,&quot; and change into her. Nautical Nimrods. 

 Amusing Walrus-hunt. Gun bursts . . Page 217 







CHAP. XV. 



Bitter Cold. Eeindeer- shooting. Three right and left 

 Shots. Delight of the Sailors.. Black Fox. Ponche & 

 la Spitzberg. Description of the Reindeer. High Con 

 dition he attains. Excellence of his Flesh. His Igno 

 rance of Man. Anecdotes. Fine Valley. Unexplored 

 Channel. Near Heinlopen Straits. Unjust Attack. 

 Marrow-Bones. Ice-borne Boulders. Good &quot; Bag.&quot; 



Two Singular Mountains. Thymen s Straits. Meri 

 torious Deer. Receipt for Kabobs. Splendid Deer Forest. 

 Rejoin the Sloop ... .237 



CHAP. XVI. 



Dead Walrus found. Bears nearly escape, but are caught. 



Gale and Ice. Mynherr Holmengreen. Presents 

 more Kaffirorum. Send home the Sloop. Result of 

 Ericson s eight Months Voyage. South Cape. Sugar- 

 loaf Mountain. &quot; Right Whales.&quot; Parasitical Gulls. 

 Practical Joke. Arctic Fauna. Chain of Subsist 

 ence. Divergence of White Bear from original Stock. 

 Origin of the Walrus ; and of the Seal. Of the Ceta 

 ceans. Changes in the South African Antelopes, caused 

 by Desiccation of that country . . . . .260 



CHAP. XVII. 



Horn and Bell Sounds Ice Fiord. Pickled Reindeers 



Tongues. Arctic Foxes. Geology. Raised Beaches. 

 Fossil Cannon-balls. Awful Avalanche. Begins to get 



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