CONTENTS. 



IS 



Sufferings and a Marvellous Escape — Arrival of the Mutineers at Tahiti — 

 Their Removal to Pitcairn's Island — Subsequent History — Voyage of Van- 

 couver — Algerine Piracy — Burning of the Philadelphia — Proud Position of 

 the United States 524 



CHAPTER XLVIIL— Application of Steam to Navigation— Robert Fulton- 

 Chancellor Livingston — Launch of the Clermont — She crosses the Hudson 

 River — Her Voyage to Albany — Description of the Scene — Fulton's own Ac- 

 count — Legislative Protection granted to Fulton — The Pendulum-Engine — 

 Construction of other Steamboats — The Steam-Frigate Fulton the First — The 

 First Ocean-Steamer, the Savannah — Account of her Voyage — Misapprehen- 

 sions upon the Subject 540 



FROM THE APPLICATION OF STEAM TO NAVIGATION TO THE LAYING OF 

 THE ATLANTIC CABLE : 1807-1858. 



CHAPTER XLIX. — Arctic Explorations — Russian Researches under Krusen- 

 stern and Kotzebue — Freycinet — Ross — The Crimson Cliffs — Lancaster Sound 

 — Buchan and Franklin — Parry — The Polar Sea — Winter Quarters — Return 

 Home — Duperrey — Episodes in the Whale-Fishery — Parry's Polar Voyage — 

 Boat-Sledges — Method of Travel — Disheartening Discovery — 82° 43' North... 551 



CHAPTER L. — Ross's Second Voyage— The North Magnetic Pole— D'Urville — 

 Enderby's Land — Back's Voyage in the Terror — The Great Western and Sirius 

 — United States' Exploring Expedition— The Antarctic Continent — Sir John 

 Franklin's Last Voyage in the Erebus and Terror — Efforts made to relieve 

 him — Discovery of the Scene of his First Winter Quarters — The Grinnell Ex- 

 pedition — The Advance and Rescue — Lieutenant de Haven — Dr. Kane — Return 

 of the Expedition 567 



CHAPTER LI. — Kennedy's Expedition—Sir Edward Belcher— McClure— Dis. 

 covery of the Northwest Passage — Junction of McClure and Kellett — Episode 

 of the Resolute — Commodore Perry's Expedition — Decisive Traces of the Fate 

 of Sir John Franklin — The Leviathan 586 



CHAPTER L1L— The Second Grinnell Expedition— The Advance in Winter 

 Quarters— Total Darkness— Sledge-Parties— Adventures— The First Death — 

 Tennyson's Monument— Humboldt Glacier— The Open Polar Sea— Second 

 Winter— Abandonment of the Brig— The Water Again— Upernavik— Rescue 

 by Captain Hartstene— Death and Services of Dr. Kane— Lord Dufferin's 

 Visit to Iceland— Description of its Capital— Huts of the Icelanders— General 

 Intelligence — Jon Thorlakson 594 



CHAPTER LIIL— Charles Francis Hall's last Arctic Expedition in the Polaris 

 —The Preparation for the Expedition — The high hope with which it started 

 —The first News from it— Picked up on the Floating Ice— The Tigress sent 

 in search— Her Failure to find the Explorers— Hall's 'Death— The Polaris 

 Abandoned and Sunk— Journal of a Voyage on Floating Ice— Attempt to lay 

 the Atlantic Cable 



CHAPTER LIV.— Second and Third Attempts to lay the Atlantic Cable— The 

 Failure in the Month of June— Description of the Cable— The Voyage of the 

 Niagara— The Continuity— All Right again— Change from one Coil to An- 



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