CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE LOUCHEUX, OR KUTCHIN INDIANS. 



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

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

 rous Lives. — Pounds for catching Reindeer. — Their Lodges Page 331 



CHAPTER XXXn. 



ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, FROM THE CABOTS TO BAFFIN. 



First Scandinavian Discoverer of America.— The Cabots.—Willoughby and Chancellor (1553-1554). — 

 Stephen Burrough (1556). — Frobisher (1576-1578). — Davis (1585-1587). — Barentz, Cornelis, and 

 Brant (1594). — Wintering of the Dutch Navigators in Nova Zembla (1596-1597). — John Knight 

 (1606).— Murdered by the Esfluimaux.— Henry Hudson (1607-1609).— Baffin (161G) 335 



CHAPTER XXXIIL 



ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY', FROM BAFFIN TO m'cLINTOCK. 



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

 1820).— Franklin's first land Journey.— Dreadful Sufferings.— Parry's second Voyage (1821-1823). 



Iligliuk. — Lyon (1824). — Parry's third Voyage (1824). — Franklin's second land Journey to the 



Shores of the Polar Sea. — Beechey. — PaiTv'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 (1837-1839).— Franklin and Crozier's last Voyage (1845).— Searching Expeditions.— 

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

 quarters discovered by Ommaney.— Kennedy and Bellot.— Inglefield.— Sir E. Belcher.— Kellett.— 

 M'Clure's Discovery of the North-west Passage.— Collinson.— Bellot 's Death.— Dr. Rae learns tht 

 Death of the 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 " (185.3).— Winters in Rensselaer Bay.— Sledge Journey 

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

 Humboldt Glacier.— Dr. Hayes crosses Kennedy Channel. — Morton'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 

 Upernavik.— 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 365 



' CHAPTER XXXV. 



NEWFOUNDLAND. 



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

 *^ mate.— St. John'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 Fishing.— Throaters, Headers, Splitters, Suiters, and Packers.— Fogs and Storms.— Seal- 

 catching 376 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



GREENLAND. 



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

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

 bys.— Clavering.— The Danish Settlements in Greenland.— The Greenland Esquimaux.— Seal-catch- ' 

 ing.— The White Dolphin.— The Narwhal.— Shark-fishery.— Fiskernasset.— Birds.— Reindeer-hunt- 

 ing.— Indigenous Plants.— Drift-wood.— Mineral Kingdom.— Mode of Life of the Greenland Esqui- 

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



