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CHAPTER VI. 



A bear-fight — An ice-nip — Strong gales, rapid drift — Tlie ' Fox ' 

 breaks out of the pack — Hanging on to floe-edge — The Arctic 

 bear — An ice tournament — The ' Fox ' in peril — A storm in 

 the jjack — Escape from the pack Page 93 



CHAPTER VII. 



A holiday in Greenland — A lady blue with cold — The loves of 

 Greenlanders — Close shaving — Meet the whalers — Informa- 

 tion of whalers — Disco — Danish hospitality — Sail from 

 Disco — Kindness of the whalers — Danish establishments in 

 Greenland Ill 



CHAPTER VIII. 



* Fox ' nearly wrecked — Afloat, and push ahead — Arctic hair- 

 breadth escapes — Nearly caught in the pack — Shooting little 

 auks — The Arctic Highlanders — Cape York — Crimson snow 

 — Struggling to the westward — Keach the West-land — Off the 

 entrance of Lancaster Sound 128 



CHAPTER IX. 



Off Cape Warrender — Sight the whalers again — Enter Pond's 

 Bay — • Commimicate witli Esquimaux — Ascend Pond's Inlet — 

 Esquimaux information — Arctic summer abode — An Arctic 

 village — No intelligence of Franklin's shijis — Arctic trading — 

 Geographical information of natives — Information of Eae's visit 

 — Improvidence of Esquimaux — Travels of Esquimaux . . 146 



CHAPTER X. 



Leave Pond's Bay — A gale in Lancaster Sound — The Beechey 

 Island depot — An Arctic monument — Eeflections at Beechey 

 Island — Proceed up Barrow's Strait — Peel Sound — Port Leo- 

 pold — Prince Regent's Inlet — Bellot Strait — Flood-tide from 

 the west — Unsuccessful efforts — Fox's Hole — No water to 

 the west — Precautionary measures — Fourth attempt to pass 

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