CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE LOUCHECX, OR KCTCHIN 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 Heindeer. — Their Lodges Page 331 



CHAPTER XXXIL 



ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, FROM THE CABOTS TO BAFFIN. 



First Scandinavian Discoverer of America. — Tlie Cabots. — Willoughbv and Chancellor (1553-1551). — 

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

 Brant (1594).— Wintering of the Dutch Navigators in Nova Zenibla (1596-1507). — .John Kni.udit 

 (1606).— Murdered by the Esquimaux.— Henry Hudson (1607-1609).— Baflfin (1616) 335 



CHAPTER XXXHL 



ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, FRO.M 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. — PanVs second Voyage (1821-1823). 

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

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

 second Journey. -rFive 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 \\'inter- 

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

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

 Death of the Q-evvs of the " Erebus " and " Terror.'"- Sir Leopold M'Clintock 34'^ 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



KANE AND HAYES. 



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

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

 Humboldt Glacier. — Dr. Hayes crosses Kennedy Channel. — Morton's Discovery of Washington 

 Land. — Mount PaiTv. — 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 Journej' to 

 Upernavik. — Kane's Death in the Havana (1857). — Dr. Hayes's Voyage in 1860. — He winters at 

 Port Foulke. — Crosses Kenned}^ Channel. — Reaches Cape Union, the most northern known Land 

 upon the Globe. — Koldewey. — Plans for future Voyages to the North Pole 365 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



NEWFC NDLAND. 



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

 mate.— St. John's. — Discover}' 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 Pall. — 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 Scenerv. — Ice Caves 382 



