CONTENTS. ix 



Flats. Deeva Bay. &quot;Fast&quot; Ice. Bear s Mode of 

 catching Seals. Whale s Bones. Glen-Turritt. Large 

 Extent of fixed Ice. Many Seals shot. Become my own 

 Harpooner. Glacier with detached Moraine . Page 98 



CHAP. VIII. 



Large Bear shot. Adventures of an Opera -glass. Size 

 and Weight of Polar Bear. Stories of Bears. She 

 Bear and Cubs. Break up of the Fast-Ice. Kill the 

 old Bear, and catch the Cubs alive. Shocking Case of 

 filial Ingratitude . . . . . . .117 



CHAP. IX. 



The Ice disperses. Lose a Bear and Cub. Pot 600 Ibs. 

 of Bears -grease. Skins. Slow going. Seals at 

 tracted by Whistling. Glaciers on the Coast. Noises 

 from them. Submarine Bank. Shooting Walruses. 

 Walruses fighting. Walrus Tusks. Awkward Cus 

 tomer. Ivory. Story of Mermaids. Osteological 

 Peculiarity. Cook loses his Watch. Shoot a Bear. 

 Cold Bath 132 



CHAP. X, 



Boat-race. Visit. Ingenious Harpoon. Hippopotamus. 

 Phoca Vitulina, or little Seal. Phoca Hispida, or Jan 

 May en Seal. Dreadful Smell of Cargo. Ferocity of 

 young Bear. Drift-ice. Stones and Clay on Icebergs. 

 Warm Day. Beautiful Caverns in the Ice. Upset of an 

 Iceberg. Young Ice. Noises from Glacier. Crimping 

 a Walrus. Ivory Gulls. See a Bear. Curious De 

 lusion. Gulf-stream and Arctic Current. Danger 

 of getting embayed. Narrow Escape . . . 150 



CHAP. XI. 



Dense and sudden Fog. Our Hours and Habits. 

 Supplies run short. Meet the Yacht. Their bad 



