CONTENTS. Xlll 



CHAPTER XV. 



Bitter Cold. — Reindeer-shooting. — Three right and left Shots. 

 — Delight of the Sailors. — Black Fox. — Ponche a la Spitz- 

 berg. — Description of the Reindeer. — High Condition he at- 

 tains. — Excellence of his Flesh. — His Ignorance of Man. — 

 Anecdotes. — Fine Valley. — Unexplored Channel. — Near 

 Heinlopen Straits. — Unjust Attack. — Marrow-bones. — Ice- 

 borne Boulders. — Good " Bag." — Two singular Mountains. 

 — Thymen's Straits. — Meritorious Deer. — Receipt for Ka- 

 bobs. — Splendid deer Forest. — Rejoin the Sloop. Page 216 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Dead "Walrus found. — Bears nearly escape, but are caught. — 

 Gale and Ice. — Mynherr Holmengreen. — Presents more 

 Kaffirorum. — Send home the Sloop. — Result of Ericson's 

 eight Months' Voyage. — South Cape. — Sugar-loaf Mountain. 

 — " Right Whales." — Parasitical Gulls. — Practical Joke. — 

 Arctic Fauna. — Chain of Subsistence. — Divergence of White 

 Bear from original Stock. — Probable Origin of the Walrus. 

 — And of the Seal. — Of the Cetaceans. — Changes in the 

 South African Antelopes, caused by Desiccation of that 

 country 237 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Horn and Bell Sounds. — Ice Fiord. — Pickled Reindeer's 

 Tongues. — Arctic Foxes. — Geology. — Raised Beaches. — 

 Fossil Cannon-balls. — Awful Avalanche. — Begins to get 

 dark at Night. — Reach Hammerfest. — Sell our Cargo. — 

 Take Leave of our Crew. — Sail home. — Equinoctial Gales. 

 — Leith. — " Glut" of Bears in the British Market. — Conclu- 

 sion. — Game List 258 



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