CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER Vm. 



Large Bear shot. — Adventures of an Opera-glass. — Size and 

 Weight of Polar Bear. — Stories of Bears. — She-Bear and 

 Cubs. — Break-up of the Fast Ice. — Kill the old Bear, and 

 catch the Cubs alive. — Shocking case of filial Ingrati- 

 tude Page 117 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Ice disperses. — Lose a Bear and Cub. — Pot 600 lbs. of 

 Bears'-grease. — Skins. — Slow going. — Seals attracted by 

 Whistling. — Glaciers on the Coast. — Noises from them. — 

 Submarine Bank. — Shooting Walruses. — Walruses fighting. 

 — Walrus Tusks. — Awkward Customer. — Ivory. — Story 

 of Mermaids. — Osteological Peculiarity. — Cook loses his 

 Watch.— Shoot a Bear.— Cold Bath 131 



CHAPTER X. 



Boat-race. — Visit. — Ingenious Harpoon. — Hippopotamus. — 

 Phoca Vitulina, or Little Seal. — Phoca Hispida, or Jan May- 

 en Seal. — Dreadful Smell of Cargo. — Ferocity of young 

 Bear. — Drift-ice. — Stones and Clay on Icebergs. — Warm 

 Day. — Beautiful Caverns in the Ice. — Upset of an Iceberg. 

 — Young Ice. — Noises from Glacier. — Crimping a Walrus. 

 — Ivory Gulls. — See a Bear. — Curious Delusion. — Gulf 

 Stream and Arctic Current. — Danger of getting embayed. 

 — Narrow Escape 145 



CHAPTER XL 



Dense and sudden Fog. — Our Hours and Habits. — Supplies 

 run short. — Meet the Yacht. — Their bad Success in Sport. — 

 Novel Bullet-mould. — Geological Specimens. — Part com- 

 pany again. — Medical Treatment of sick Men. — Water up. 

 — News. — Old Acquaintance. — Gradual Extinction of the 

 Walrus. — They are receding farther North. — Nova Zembla. 

 — Illness of young Bear. — Attempt to escape. — Aged Bull- 



