X CONTENTS. 



Success in Sport. — Novel Bullet-mould. — Geological 

 Specimens. — Part Company again. — Medical Treatment 

 of Sick Men. — Water up. — News. — Old Acquaintance. 



— Gradual Extinction of the "Wali-us. — They are receding 

 further North. — Nova Zembla. — Illness of yoimg Bear. 



— Attempt to escape. — Aged BuU-Wah'us. — His pro- 

 bable Eeminiscences. — Coal and Fossils. — Commander 

 Gillies' Land. — North-east Spitzbergen. — Bear shot from 

 the Deck of the Sloop Page 167 



CHAP. xn. 



Wah'uses leave the Banks, and go upon Land. — Vast 

 Hei'ds ashore. — Frightful Massacre. — Just Retribution. 

 — Cargo of Bones. — Beautiful Day and Sudden Change. — 

 Early Northern Voyagers. — Scoresby's Opinion. - — Open 

 Polar Basin a mere Cliimera. — Dr. Kane. — North Pole. 

 — Scheme for reaching the Pole. — Parry's Sledge Expedi- 

 tion ; and why it failed. — Alexei MarkhofF's Expedition ; 

 and his difficult Retiu'u . . . . . .184 



CHAP. XIII. 



Whales' Bones. — Eapid Elevation of the Land. — Early 

 Whale Fishery. — Shallowing of the Sea. — Trench ploughed 

 by an Iceberg. — Last Day at the Sea-horses. — Successful 

 Stalk and double Shot. — Lose two Harpoons. — Very bad 

 Luck. — Difficulty of shooting Walruses. — Gale. — Wrecks 

 in Spitzbergen. — Insurance. — Kill a White Whale. — 

 Description of the same. — vSail to the Rendezvous . 199 



CHAP. XIV. 



Smeerenberg, or Blubber Town. — Agrements of ditto. — 

 Discovery of Spitzbergen. — Barentz. — Wliale Fishery. — 

 — Attempts to colonise the Comitry, and to make a 

 penal Settlement. — They fail. — The West Indies ve7^sus 

 Spitzbergen. — Russian Robinson Crusoes. — Wintering 

 Establishment. — How conducted. — Awful Mortality. — 



