CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Cause of delay in equipment — Fittings of the ' Fox ' — Volunteers 

 for Arctic service — Assistance from public departments — 

 Eeflections upon the undertaking — Instructions and departure 

 — Orkneys and Greenland — Fine Arctic scenery — Danish 

 establishments in Greenland — Frederickshaab, in Davis' 

 Straits Page 1 



CHAPTEE II. 



Fiskemaes and Esquimaux — The 'Fox' reaches Disco — Disco 

 Fiord — Summer scenery — Waigat Strait — Coaling from the 

 mine — Purchasing Esquimaux dogs — Heavy gale off Uper- 

 nivik — Melville Bay — • The middle ice — The great glacier 

 of Greenland — Eeindeer cross the glacier .. .. .. 21 



CHAPTEE III. 



Melville Bay — Beset in Melville Bay — Signs of winter — The 

 coming storm — Drifting in the pack — Canine appetite — 

 Resigned to a winter in the pack — Dinner stolen by sharks — 

 The Arctic shark — White whales and killers 38 



CHAPTEE IV. 



Snow crystals — Dog will not eat raven — • An Arctic school — The 

 dogs invade us — Bear-tmnting by night — Ice-artillery — Arctic 

 palates — Sudden rise of temperature — Harvey's idea of a 

 sortie 56 



CHAPTEE V. 



Burial in the pack — Musk oxen in lat. 80° north — -Thrift of the 

 Arctic fox — The aurora affects the electrometer — An Arctic 

 Christmas — Sufferings of Dr. Kane's deserters — Ice acted on by 

 wind only — How the sun ought to be welcomed — Constant 

 action of the ice — Eeturn of the seals — Eevolving storm 74 



