X CONTENTS. 



Success in Sport, Novel Bullet-mould. Geological 

 Specimens. Part Company again. Medical Treatment 

 of Sick Men. Water up. News. Old Acquaintance. 



Gradual Extinction of the Walrus. They are receding 

 further North. Nova Zembla. Illness of young Bear. 



Attempt to escape. Aged Bull- Walrus. His pro 

 bable Eeminiscences. Coal and Fossils. Commander 

 Gillies Land. North-east Spitzbergen. Bear Shot from 

 the Deck of the Sloop . . Page 1G7 



CHAP. XII. 



Walruses leave the Banks, and go upon Land. Vast 

 Herds ashore. Frightful Massacre. Just Retribution. 



Cargo of Bones. Beautiful Day and Sudden Change. 



Early Northern Voyagers. Scoresby s Opinion. Open 

 Polar Basin a mere Chimera. Dr. Kane. North Pole. 

 Scheme for reaching the Pole. Parry s Sledge Expedi 

 tion ; and why it failed. Alexei Markhoff s Expedition ; 

 and his difficult Return 184 



CHAP. XIII. 



Whales Bones. Rapid Elevation of the Land. Early 

 Whale Fishery. Shallowing of the Sea. Trench ploughed 

 by an Iceberg. Last Day at the Sea-horses. Successful 

 Stalk and double Shot. Lose two Harpoons. Very bad 



Luck. Difficulty of shooting Walruses. Gale. Wrecks 



in Spitzbergen. Insurance. Kill a White Whale. 

 Description of the same. Sail to the Rendezvous . 199 



CHAP. XIV. 



Smeerenberg, or Blubber Town. Agrements of ditto. 

 Discovery of Spitzbergen. Barentz. Whale Fishery. 



Attempts to colonise the Country, and to make a 



penal Settlement. They fail. The West Indies versus 

 Spitzbergen. Russian Robinson Crusoes. Wintering 

 Establishment. How conducted. Awful Mortality. 



