X CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XXXIII. 
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Continued Drift. — Preparation for Contingencies. — Results of intense 
Pressure. — Inside of Baffin's Bay.— Effects of Darkness. — Ice Masses. — 
Declining Health of Crews. — Morale of Officers and Men. — Approach of 
Day. — Sunrise, Noon, and Sunset in one. — El regresado del Sol. — 
Theatre 383 
CHAPTER XXXIV. 
Continued Drift.— Extreme Cold. — Explosions.— Meteors.— Refraction. — 
The Area of Drift. — Routine Life. — Perspiration at — 42°. — Washington's 
Birth-day. — Cold Amusements. — The Scurvy. — An Insect"! — Our two 
Cooks. — Our lowest Temperature. — Hygienic Resources 297 
CHAPTER XXXV. 
Meteors. — Scintillation of Planets. — Auroras. — Day Auroras 312 
CHAPTER XXXVI. 
The Rescue in her Ice Dock. — Treatment of ScurAry. — Imagination. — 
Progress of Disease. — Meteors, Spiculse, Parhelion. — Imperfect Observa- 
tions. — Rate of Drift. — Water. — Frost Smoke 324 
CHAPTER XXXVII. 
Snow Drifts.— The open Water. — Ice Voices. — Seal Stalking. — Ice Com- 
motions.— Narwhals at Play. — State of the Ice Pack. — An Excursion. — 
The Narwhals again. — Changed Phase of the Ice 334 
CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
April. — Thawing. — Measures of Heat. — Therm ometrical Fallacies. — Clear 
Water. — Endosmosis. — Salting the Ice. — Put out Cabin Lamps.— Sur- 
gical Skill of a Bear : his Escape : his Instincts 345 
CHAPTER XXXIX, 
House-cleaning. — The Half-deck. — Progress of the Season. — Somateria. 
— Narwhals releasing themselves. — Noises of Narwhal and white 
Whale. — May-day. — Sleeplessness. — Snow-blindness 354 
CHAPTER XL. 
Trjdng to cut out. — Scurvy. — Costume, Skill in Tailoring. — Birds. — Land, 
Cape Searle. — Condition of the Advance. — InetFectual Attempt to launch 
her. — ' Y" Arctic Voyageres' of the olden Time 362 
CHAPTER XLI. 
Cape Walsingham. — Mount Raleigh. — Rate of Drift increasing. — Refrac- 
tion, an Esquimaux'! — Bear killed by the Rescues. — A Tide. — The 
Seals : their Habits. — Infiltration of Salt Water through the Ice. — Sum- 
mary of May 371 
