LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Byron at King George's Island. . 430 

 Parting of Wallis and Oberea . . . 444 



Burning of the Le Prince 449 



Chain of Phosphorescent Salpas.. 451 



Bougainville 452 



A Ferry Boat at Buenos Ayres. . 454 

 Bougainville at Magellan's Straits. 455 



Cascade at Port Praslin 459 



Capt. James Cook 4G1 



a Flying Fish 4G2 



Porpoise 463 



Sea Birds 464 



The Dancing Savages 471 



A New Zealand Canoe 472 



Waterfowl 475 



Kangaroo 478 



Coral Reef. 479 



Cape Pigeon 481 



Menaced by Ice 483 



•Cook's ship beset by Water- 

 Spouts 485 



KingOtoo 487 



Tivony 489 



•Canoes of the Friendly Islands. . 490 



A Cannibal Feast 491 



New Caledonian double Ganoe. . . '492 

 Sandwich Island King to visit 



Cook 494 



Omai 498 



Habitations in Nootka Sound... . 500 

 Man of the Sandwich Islands... . 502 

 Woman of Sandwich Islands. . . . 503 



Fight with the Natives 505 



Laperouse 512 



Laperouse's Disaster at French- 

 port 517 



Remnants of the wreck 522 



Consecration of the Cenotaph . . . 523 



Scene in Terra del Fuego 524 



Colonists of Pitcairn's Island .... 530 



A Deserted Village 533 



The Discovery on a Rock 534 



Burning of the Philadelphia .... 538 

 The Clermont, the first steamboat. 540 

 The Savannah, the first ocean 



steamer 549 



Head of a White Bear 551 



Reception of Otzebue at Otdia . . 552 

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Attacked by Walruses 555 



Taking Walrus 556 



White Bears 558 



Sea Lions on the Ice 561 



Cutting In 562 



Cutting Out 562 



The Navigators frozen in 567 



The Victory in a Gale 568 



Floating Ice Mountains 574 



Dr. Kane 580 



Dr. Kane passing through Devil's 



Nip 581 



The Seal 585 



Japanese Vessel 591 



The Leviathan 593 



Cape Alexander, the Arctic Gi- 

 braltar 594 



Chaos 596 



Wild Dog Team 598 



Open Polar Sea 599 



Seeking Eider Down 603 



Capital of Iceland 605 



Church at Thingvalla 606 



Jon Thorlakson 607 



Map of Polaris Expedition 608 



Officers of Polaris . . 611 



Aurora in Greenland 614 



Drifting in the Ice 615 



Scaling an Iceberg 617 



Nest of the Polar Bear 619 



Esquimaux 622 



An Arctic Channel 628 



The Telegraphic Fleet 631 



Hauling the Cable ashore 632 



Landing the Cable 634 



The Cable in the bed of the 



Ocean 633 



Sections of Atlantic Cable 635 



The Telegraph Plateau 642 



The Agamemnon in a Gale 648 



Diving Bell 652 



Fixed Apparatus supplied with 



Compressed Air- 653 



Payerne's Submarine Hyarostat. 655 



Mushroom Drill 658 



Ready to go down . . . 660 



Putting in the Cbarges 662 



Grappling Machine 663 



