VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



FEANKLIN'S LAST VOYAGE. 



North- West Passage Strange Arrival of Lieutenant PinTover the IceThc'invwtigator Abandoned Crew Saved 

 Reward of 10,000 to M'Clure and his Ship's Company 204 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



THE FEANKL1N SEAECH. 



The Franklin Expedition The First Relics Dr. Rae's Discoveries The Government Tired of the Search Noble Lady 

 Franklin The Voyage of the Fox Beset in the Ice for Eight Months Enormous Icebergs Seal and Bear Hunts 

 Unearthly Noises under the Floes Guy Fawkes in the Arctic The Fiftieth Seal Shot A Funeral A Merry 

 Christinas New Year's Celebration Winter Gales Their Miraculous Escape Experience of a Whaler Breakfast 

 and Ship Lost together 215 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



THE LAST TEACES. 



M'Clintock's Summer Explorations The Sec9iid Winter Sledging Parties Snow Huts Near the Magnetic Pole- 

 Meeting with Esquimaux Franklin Relics Obtained Objection of Esquimaux to Speak of the Dead Hobson's 

 Discovery of the Franklin Records Fate of the Erebus and Terror Large Quantity of Relics Purchased from the 

 Natives The Skeleton on the BeachFate of Crozier's Party "As they Fell they Died "The Record at Point 

 Victory- Boat with Human Remains Discovered The Wrecks never Seen Return of the Fox . . . .223 



CHAPTER XXV. 



KANE'S MEMORABLE EXPEDITION. 



Dr. Kane's Expedition His short but eventful Career Departure of the Advance Dangers of the Voyage Grinding 

 Ice Among the Bergs A Close Shave Nippings The Brig towed from the Ice-beach Smith's Sound Rensselaer 

 Harbour- Winter Quarters Return of an Exploring Party Fearful Sufferings To the Rescue Saved Curious 

 EffectB of Intense Cold 232 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



KANE'S EXPEDITION (continued). 



.Arrival of Esquimaux at the Brig A Treaty Concluded Hospitality on Board Arctic Appetites Sledge Journeys 

 A Break-down Morton's Trip The Open Sea The Brig hopelessly Beset A Council Called Eight Men stand 

 by the Advance Departure of the Rest Their Return Terrible Sufferings A Characteristic Entry Raw Meat 

 for Food Fruitless Journeys for Fresh Meat A Scurvied Crew Starving Esquimaux Attempted Desertion 

 A Deserter brought back from the Esquimaux Settlements i * .... 238 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



KANE'S EXPEDITION (concluded). 



A Sad Entry Farewell to the Brig Departure for the South Death of Ohlsen Difficult Travelling The Open Water 

 The Esquimaux of Etah A Terrible Gale Among the broken Floes A Greenland Oasis The Ice Cliff Eggs 

 by the Hundred An Anxious Moment A Savage Feast The First Sign of Civilisation Return to the Settle- 

 mentsHome once more . ; . * ; 247 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



HAYES' EXPEDITION SWEDISH EXPEDITIONS. 



Voyage of the United States High Latitude attained In Winter Quarters Hardships of the Voyage -The dreary 

 Arctic Landscape -Open Water once more 1,300 Miles of Ice traversed Swedish Expeditions Perilous Position 

 of the Sofia 2oo 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



THE SECOND GEEMAN EXPEDITION. 



The First German Expedition Preparations for a Second Building of the Go-mania The Hansa The Emperor 

 William's Interest in the Voyage The Scientific Corps Departure from Bremerhaven -Neptune at the Arctic 

 Circle The Vessels Separated among the Tee Sport with Polar Bears Wedged in by the Grinding Ice- 

 Preparations to Winter on the Floe The Hansa lifted Seventeen Feet out of the Water A Doomed \ essel 

 Wreck of the Hansa 2o8 



