CONTENTS 



THE SECOND VOLUME, 



CHAPTER I. 



PAUK 



Anxiety about Aldrich's party Lieutenant May sent to relieve 

 hi 111 Geese and ducks arrive Return of Aldrich Commence- 

 ment of thaw Extracts from Lieut. Aldrich's official report . 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Decide to return south Setting-in of the thaw Musk-oxen shot 

 Increase and decrease of polar floes Formation of pen-knife ice 

 Disruption of floes Charr Greenland ice-cap Drift-wood 

 Arctic flowering plants ' Alert ' starts for Discovery Bay . 50 



CHAPTER III. 



Greenland party attacked with scurvy Deaths of two men Captain 

 Stepheuson proceeds to Polaris Bay Beaumont returns to 

 Discovery Bay Account of his proceedings . . . .82 



CHA'PTER iv. 



Leave Floeberg Beach Navigation of Robeson Channel Its extreme 

 difficulty Cape Union Stopped at Cape Beechey Eskimo 

 remains Brent geese Rejoin the { Discovery ' Killing a 

 musk-ox Return of Beaumont's! party 114 



