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and Robbery Combined Their Fates 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE PIRATES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (concluded). 



Burned to Death Torture" of a"Portugese^aptain-Of*Two y portugese"Friars-^._ . _ ^^^ 



Cupidity defeated by a Portugese Eleven Thousand Moidores dropped out of a Cabin Window An Unpunished 

 Fiend 67 



CHAPTER VIII. 



PAUL JONES AND DE SOTO. 



Paul Jones, the Privateer A Story of his Boyhood- He Joins the American Revolutionists Attempt to Burn the Town 

 and Shipping of Whitehaven Foiled His Appearance at St. Mary's Capture of Lady Selkirk's Family Plate 

 --A Letter from Jones Return of the Plate several Years after A Press-gang Impressed Engagement with the 

 Ranger A. Privateer Squadron The Fight off Scarborough Brave Captains Pearson and Piercy Victory for 

 the Privateers Jones Dies in abject Poverty A Nineteenth Century Freebooter Benito de Soto Mutiny on a 

 Slave Ship The Commander left Ashore and the Mate Murdered Encounters the Morning StarA Ship 

 without a Gun Terror of the Passengers Order to spare no Lives A Terrified Steward De Soto's Commands 

 only partially observed, and the Ship Saved At Cadiz Failure of the Pirate's Plans Captured, Tried, and 

 Hanged at Gibraltar 71 



CHAPTER IX. 



OUR ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. 



Our Latest Arctic Expedition Scene at Portsmouth Departure of the Alert and Discovery Few Expeditions really 

 ever pointed to the Pole What we know of the Regions-Admitted and Unadmitted Records Dutch Yarns 

 A Claimant at the Pole Life with the Esquimaux A Solitary Journey Northmen Colony The Adventurer kindly 

 treated Their King Sun-worshippers Believers in an Arctic Hell The Mastodon not Extinct Domesticated 

 Walruses The whole story a nonsensical Canard 84 



CHAPTER X. 



CRUISE OF THE PANDORA. 



The Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 Its Advocates The Alert and Discovery Cruise of the Pandora Curious Icebergs 

 The First Bump with the Ice Seal Meat as a Luxury Ashore on a Floe- Coaling at Ivigtut The Kryolite 

 Trade Beauty of the Greenland Coast in Summer Festivities at Disco The Belles of Greenland A Novel Ball- 

 roomThe dreaded Melville Bay Scene of Ruin at Northumberland House Devastation of the Bears An Arctic 

 Graveyard Beset by the Ice An Interesting Discovery Furthest Point Attained Return Voyage A Dreadful 

 Night The Phantom Cliff Home again 91 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE ALERT AND DISCOVERY. 



Nares' Expedition Wonderful Passage through Baffin's Bay Winter Quarters of the Discovery Capital Game-bag- 

 Continued Voyage of the A lert Highest Latitude ever attained by a Ship" The Sea of Ancient Ice" Winter 

 Quarters, Employments, and Amusements The Royal Arctic Theatre Guy Fawkes' Day on the Ice Christmas 

 Festivities Unparalleled Cold Spring Sledging Attempt to Reach the Discovery Illness and Death of Petersen 

 The Ravages of Scurvy Tribute to Captain Hall's Memory Markham and Parr's Northern Journey Highest 

 Latitude ever reached Sufferings of the Men Brave Deeds The Voyage Home 99 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE FIRST ARCTIC VOYAGES. 



Early History of Arctic Discovery The Hardy Norseman Accidental Discovery of Iceland Colony Formed A 

 Fisherman Drifted to Greenland Eric the Red Head Rapid Colonisation Early Intercourse with America 

 Voyages of the Zeni Cabot's Attempt at a North- West Passage Maritime Enterprise of this Epoch Voyage 

 of the Dominus VobiscumQt the Trinitie and Minion Starvation and Cannibalism A High-handed Proceeding 

 Company of the Merchant Adventurers Attempts at the North-EastFate of Willoughby Chancelor, and 

 our First Intercourse with Russia 115 



CHAPTER XIII. 



EARLY ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. 



Attempts at the North- West Passage Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Advocacy The One thing left undone- Frobisher's 

 Expeditions Arctic "Diggins" A Veritable Gold Excitement Large Fleet Despatched Disaster and Disappoint- 

 mentVoyages of John Davis Intercourse with the Natives-His Reports concerning Whales, &c. The Merchants 

 Aroused Opening of the Whaling Trade Maldonado's Claim to the Discovery of the North- West Passage . 123 





