xii CONTENTS. 



ciiAPTKu xxxr. 



THE LOUCIIiaX, OK KUTCIllN ISDIAVS. 



The Countries they inhabit.— Their Appearance and Dress.— Their Love of Finery.— Condition of the 

 Women. -Strange Customs.— Character.— Fciulswiih the Esquimaux.— Their suspicious and timo- 

 rous Lives.— Pounds for catchinji Iteiudcer. — Their Lodges Page 



L'e 331 



CHAPTER XXX I r. 



ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DIStOVEKY, FKOM TIIK CABOTS TO BAFFIN. 



First Scandinavian Discoverer of America.- Tlie Caliots.— "Willongliljv and Chancellor (1553-1551).— 

 Stopiien nunongh (l.'>.">(;). — Frolii.-hcr (l.J7()-1578).— Davis (^1585-1587).— liarentz, Coinelis, and 

 IJrant (1594).- Wintering of the Dutch Navigators in Nova Zembla (1590-1597). — John Knight 

 y GOG).— Murdered by the Esquimaux.— Henry Hudson (1G07-1609). —Baffin (IGIG) 335 



CHAPTER XXXIIL 



AnCTIC VOYAGICS OF DISCOVICKV, FKO.M BAFFIN TO m'CLINTOCK. 



Buclnn and Fianklin.— Ross and Parry (1818).— Discovery of Melville Island.— Winter Harbor (1819- 

 18Jii)._ I'ranklin's first land .Joiirnoy.— Droadl'id Sufferings. — Parry's second Voyage (1821-1823). 



iligliuk. — Lyon (1824). — Parry's third Voyage (1821). — Franklin's .second land Journej' to the 



Shores of the Polar Sea. — Bcechey. — Parry's sledge Journey towards the Pole. — Sir John Ross's 

 second Journey. — Five Years in the Arctic Ocean.— Back's Discovery of Great Fish River. — Dease 

 and Simpson (18:i7-1839).— Franklin and Crozicr's last Voyage (1845).— Searching Expeditions. — 

 Richardson and Rac.— Sir James Ross. — Austin. — Penny. — De Haven. — Franklin'.s first Winter- 

 quarters discovered by (Immaney. — Kennedy and P.ellot. — Inglefield. — Sir E. I'elclirr. — KcUctt.— 

 jrClure's Di-covery of the North-west Passage.— CoHinson.—Bellot's Death. — Dr. Rae learns the 

 Death of t'le Crews of the " Erebus " and " Terror."— Sir Leopold M'Clintock 344 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



KANE AND HAYES. 



Kane sails up Smith's Sound in the '■ Advance " (1853).— Winters in Rensselaer Baj'.— Sledge Journey 

 along the Coast of Greenland. — The Three-brother Turrets. — Tennyson's Monument. — The Great 

 Humlioldt Glacier. — Dr. Hayes crosses Kennedy Channel. — IMorton's Discovery of Washington 

 Land. — Mount Parry. — Kane resolves upon a second Wintering in Rensselaer Bay. — Departure and 

 Return of Part of the Crew. — Sufferings of the Winter. — The Ship abandoned. — Boat Journey to 

 Tpc-rnavik. — Kane's Death in the Havana (1857). — Dr. Hayes's Voyage in I860. — He winters at 

 Port Foulke. — Crosses Kennedy Channel. — Reaches Cape Union, the most northern known Land 

 upon the Globe.— Koldewey. — Plans for future Voyages to the North Pole 36a 



CHAPTER XXXV, 



NEWFC "NDLAND. 



Its desolate Aspect. — Forests. — Marshes. — Barrens. — Ponds. — Fur-bearing Animals. — Severity of Cli- 

 mate.— St. Jolin's. — Discovery of Newfoundland by the Scandinavians. — Sir Humphrey Gilbert.— 

 Rivalry of the English and French. — Importance of the Fisheries. — The Banks of Newfoundland.— 

 Mode of Fisiiiiig. — Throaters, Headers, Splitters, Sidters, and Packers. — Fogs and Storms. — Seal- 

 catching 376 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



GUEENLANU. 



A mysterious Region. — Ancient Scandinavian Colonists. — Their Decline and Fall. — Hans Egede. — His 

 Trials and Success.— Foundation of Godthaab. — Herrenhuth Missionaries. — Lindenow. — The Scorcs- 

 bys. — Clavcriii'.;. — The D;ini>h Settlements in Greenland. — The Greenland Esquimaux. — Soal-catch- 

 ing. — The White Dcl[-liin.— The Narwhal. — Siiaik-tishery. — Fiskcrnasset. — Birds. — Reindeer-hunt- 

 ing. — Indigenous I'lants. — Drift-wood. — Mineral Kingdom. — Mode of Life of the Greenland Esqui- 

 maux. — The Danes in Greenland. — Beautiful Scenerv. — Ice Caves 382 



