PUBLISHER'S NOTE 



The Author had not originally contemplated the publication 

 of the colored sketches which are produced in this work. He 

 has permitted their reproduction because they may be useful 

 as showing color effects in the Arctic ; but he wishes it under- 

 stood that he claims no artistic merit for them. 



For permission to reproduce the map of Franz Josef Land, 

 in Julius Payer's " New Lands Within the Arctic Circle," the 

 publishers are indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Macmillan 

 and Company. 



