CONTENTS. IX 



Flats. — Deeva Bay. — " Fast " Ice. — Bear's Mode of 

 catching Seals. — Whale's Bones. — Glen-Tttrritt. — Large 

 Extent of fixed Ice. — Many Seals shot. — Become my own 

 Harpooner. — Glacier with detached Moraine . Page 98 



CHAP. VIII. 



Large Bear shot. — Adventures of an Opera -glass. — Size 

 and Weight of Polar Bear. — Stories of Bears. — She 

 Bear and Cubs. — Break up of the Fast-Ice. — Kill the 

 old Bear, — and catch the Cubs alive. — Shocking Case of 

 filial Ingratitude . . . . . . .117 



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CHAP. IX. 



The Ice disperses. — Lose a Bear and Cub. — Pot 600 lbs. 

 of Bears' -grease. — Skins. — Slow going. — Seals at- 

 tracted by Whistling. — Glaciers on the Coast. — Noises 

 from them. — Submarine Bank. — Shooting Walruses. — 

 Walruses fighting. — Walrus Tusks. — Ajvkward Cus- 

 tomer. — Ivory. — Story of Mermaids. — Osteological 

 Peculiarity. — Cook loses his Watch. — Shoot a Bear. — 

 Cold Bath 132 



CHAP. X. 



Boat-race. — Visit. — Ingenious Harpoon. — Hippopotamus. 

 — Phoca Vitulina, or little Seal. — Phoca Hispida, or Jan 

 Mayen Seal. — Dreadful Smell of Cargo. — Ferocity of 

 young Bear. — Drift-ice. — Stones and Clay on Icebergs. — 

 Warm Day. — Beautiful Caverns in the Ice. — Upset of an 

 Iceberg. — Young Ice. — Noises fi-om Glacier. — Crimping 

 a Wabus. — Ivory Gulls. — See a Bear. — Curious De- 

 lusion. — Gulf-stream and Arctic Current. — Danger 

 of getting embayed. — Narrow Escape . . . 150 



CHAP. XL 



Dense and sudden Fog. — Our Hom-s and Habits. — 

 Supplies run short. — Meet the Yacht. — Their bad 



