SPOETING ADVENTUEES 



NOETHEEN SEAS. 



CHAPTER I. 



First Trip to Spitzbergen in 1858. — Find Schooner Yacht 

 and light Gigs unsuitable. — Determine to go again in 

 1859. — Hire a suitable Vessel and Crew, and build two 

 Boats. — Lord David Kennedy agrees to accompany me. 

 — Contested Election delays our starting. — Eesult of 

 Poll unfortunate alike for Walruses and Constituency. — 

 Preliminary Trip to Guernsey. — Sail from Leith. — 

 Steamer a little out in her Eeckoning. — Dreadful Famine 

 in Lerwick. — Gale. — Namsen Fiord and E-iver. — Salmon 

 Fishing. — Terry's Breech-loading Eifles. 



In August, 1858, while cruising in my yacht 

 the " Ginevra," of 142 tons, on the coast of 

 Norway, I was induced, by the accounts I re- 

 ceived of reindeer and other game to be met 

 with in Spitzbergen, to make a trip across from 

 Hammerfest to that country. It being late in 



B 



