LIST OF CONTENTS 9 



CHAPTEK XXII 



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We leave the North Atlantic Engine Troubles Slow Voyage 

 to Cape Town New Engineer puts Diesel Engine right 

 Up the East Coast of Africa The Seychelles Islands 

 Many Whales We decide to make a Land Station 

 Apply to Government for Licence . . . 176 



CHAPTEK XXIII 



Going to the Arctic Objects in View Our Little Company in 

 the Fonix Rough Weather The First Ice Draw for 

 Watches A Party lost in the Ice and a possible Cure for 

 Scurvy A Lunatic in the Ice The Coming Spanish 

 Arctic Expedition Clay Pigeons Fencing We aim at 

 Shannon Island North-East Greenland Ice Floes and 

 Mist ....... 179 



CHAPTER XXIV 



Arctic Ice compared to Antarctic Ice Colours of the Floes 

 First Blood Habits of Arctic Seals compared with those 

 of the Antarctic Stopped in the Floes Cobalt Ice Water 

 White Bears' "Protective Colouring" ? Watching a 

 Bear Hunt Flea of Ursus Maritimus Scoresby on the 

 Danger of Bear-hunting . . . .187 



CHAPTER XXV 



Six Bears in the Twenty-four Hours A Bear's Meal C. A. 

 Hamilton's Veteran Bear The Writer and a Bear stalk 

 each other Tips for Animal Painters Sensation facing 

 a Bear at Three in the Morning Bear Flesh as Food 

 The colour of the Polar Regions Method of pulling a 

 live Bear on Board A Bear eating a Seal . . 196 



CHAPTER XXVI 



Waiting for Whales Narwhals at last ! Our She-Cook An 

 Arctic Sanatorium A Shark Arctic Seals and Seals of 

 the Antarctic Our Bear's Food Udscrime Rifle, 

 Pistol, Lasso Lasso our Starboard Bear Morning 

 Watch in the Ice Ivory Gulls, Fulmars, Skuas Small 

 Life More Bears A Bear Stalk before Breakfast Fears 

 about reaching Greenland Bears on Board Caches in 

 Franz Joseph Land Bear Stories " The Ends of our 

 Garden" . . . . . .204 



CHAPTER XXVII 



A Walk on the Floe Bear takes a Football Lasso Practice 

 A Piece of Driftwood The Bagpipes Pushing West 

 A Cold Bath Chasing a Bear and Cubs Lost in Mist 

 Clever Mother Bear Bear-hunting, a Man killed 

 Expectations of Walrus ..... 219 



