Vlll CONTENTS. 



pick, or Seal-hook. Axes. Knives. Ice-anchors. 

 Compass Page 31 



CHAP. IV. 



Crow s-nest. Look-out. First Walrus seen. Find them 

 very shy. Great Ice-pack. Two Walruses shot. Lay- 

 to in a dense Fog. Wreck of a Sloop in the Ice. Cure 

 for frost-bitten Feet. Sketch of the Spitzbergen Wal 

 rus Hunter. Profits of the Trade. Truck System. 

 Cold. Chilblains. Seal-shooting on the Ice. Method 

 of hunting the Great Seal. Dimensions of Great Seal. 

 Seal-shooting in the Water . . . . .42 



CHAP. V. 



Hunting the Walrus. Windfall. Maternal Affection of 

 Walrus. Seal s Dinner. Molluscs. Whale s Food. 

 Herd of Walruses. Four killed. Escape of a fine 

 Bull. Cutting up the Blubber. Walrus Hide and 

 Blubber. Accommodations of &quot; Anna Louisa.&quot; &quot; Whit 

 tling&quot; a great Eesource. Vast Herds of Sea-horses. 

 &quot;Jaging&quot; them. Exciting Sport. Man killed by a 

 Walrus. Spitzbergen Gazette of June 16th. Walrus 

 Veal or Foal 61 



CHAP. VI. 



Sabbath Observance. Rewarded for ditto. Our first Bear 

 seen. Kill him. Lose the Sloop. Quantities of Eggs. 



Driftwood. Comes from Siberia. Cannot be in situ. 

 Geology of Thousand Islands. Eed Snow. Caused by 

 Mute of Alca Alle. Bear Battue and its Consequences. 



Deplorable Effects of smelling Brandy . .82 



CHAP. VII. 



North-east Gale. Bears -grease. Errors in the Charts. 

 Geology. Limestone. Coal. Creation of subalpine 



