CONTENTS. XI 



Final Tragedy. — Death of eighteen Men from Scurvy 

 and Hunger. — Ingenious Counter-irritant. — Russian 

 Bath. — Cricket. — Boats sewed together. — Post Office. — 

 Signs of Deer. — Kill three Geese with Ball. — Find the 

 " Ginevra," and change into her. — Nautical Nimrods. — 

 Amusing Wabus-hunt. — Gun bursts . . Page 217 



CHAP. XV. 



Bitter Cold. — Eeindeer-shooting. — Three right and left 

 Shots. — Delight of the Sailors. — Black Fox. — Ponche k 

 la Spitzberg. — Description of the Reindeer. — High Con- 

 dition he attains. — Excellence of his Flesh. — His Igno- 

 rance of Man. — Anecdotes. — Fine VaUey. — Unexplored 

 Channel. — Near Heinlopen Straits. — Unjust Attack. 

 — Marrow-Bones. — Ice-borne Boulders. — Good '' Bag." 



— Two Singular Mountains. — Thymen's Straits. — Meri- 

 torious Deer. — Receipt for Kabobs. — Splendid Deer Forest. 



— Rejoin the Sloop ...... 237 



CHAP. XVI. 



Dead "Walx'us found. — Bears nearly escape, but are caught. 



— Gale and Ice. — Mynherr Holmengreen. — Presents 

 more Kaffirorum. — Send home the Sloop. — Result of 

 Ericson's eight Months' Voyage. — South Cape. — Sugar- 

 loaf Mountain. — " Right Wliales." — Parasitical Gulls. 

 — Practical Joke. — Arctic Fauna. — Chain of Subsist- 

 ence. — Divergence of White Bear from original Stock. — 

 Origin of the Walrus ; — and of the Seal. — Of the Ceta- 

 ceans. — Changes in the South African Antelopes, caused 

 by Desiccation of that country . . . . .260 



CHAP. XVII. 



Horn and Bell Soimds Ice Fiord. — Pickled Reindeers' 



Tongues. — Ai-ctic Foxes. — Geology. — Raised Beaches. 

 Fossil Cannon-baUs. — Awful Avalanche. — Begins to get 



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