xii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE LOUCHECX, OR KCTCHIN INDIANS. 



The Countries they 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 XXXII. 



ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, FROM THE CABOTS TO BAFFIN. 



First Scandinavian Discoverer of America. The Cabots. Willoughby and Chancellor (1553-1551). 

 Stephen Bui-rough (1556). Frobisher (1576-1578). Davis (1585-1587). Barents:, Cornells, and 

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

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



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



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 Vovage (1821-1823). 

 Iligliuk. Lyon (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. 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 the 

 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 " (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 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 1860. 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 Humphrev Gilbert. 

 Rivalry of the English and French. Importance of the Fisheries. The Banks of Newfoundland. 

 Mode of Fishing. Throaters, Headers, Splitters, Salters, and Packers. Fogs and Storms. Seal- 

 catching 376 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



GREENLAND. 



A niA'sterious 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 Scenerv. Ice Caves . . 382 



