CONTENTS 
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CHAPTER XIV 
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Leave the Falklands — The want of proper Pilotage — A Scurvy Ship 
— On our way South again — A Glimpse of the Polar World — 
Whales — Fog and Icebergs — The First Blood — The Crow's Nest 
— The Edge of the Antarctic Ice — ' He 's a Bowhead ! ' — Ice of all 
kinds — Colouring — Bergs and Mist — Mist and Bergs — South 
Shetland — ( A Sail ! ' — Bergs to Port, to Starboard, Ahead, 
Astern — A Gale — Berg Thirty Miles long — Swell on the Pack 
Edge — A Berg breaking up — Land ! — White Seals — Penguins — 
Meet our Consorts Diana and Active in Erebus and Terror Gulf, 19 
CHAPTER XV 
Christmas Eve in the Antarctic Ice, ....... 232 
CHAPTER XVI 
Christmas Day — Meet Dr. Donald of the Active— Sealing — Large 
Black Seals — In the Engine-Room — Antarctic Fossils — A Visit 
from Captain Larsen of the Jason — Sealing, .... 243 
CHAPTER XVII 
The Pack-ice that barred the progress of Ross's Sailing Vessels — 
Approximate Cost of an Exploring Expedition to the Antarctic — 
The Active Whale — Scaling in Mist — The Norwegians celebrate 
their King's Birthday — Vive Napoleon ! — Whalers' opinion on 
Nansen's Expedition — In the Norwegian Focsle — Fog, Wind, 
Snow, Gale — Seals — A long Day in the Boats — Seals on a Berg 
— Sunshine and Gales— A Gale amongst the Bergs — A Bad Night 
— -A Calm Evening in the Ice — A Mirage — A Yarn from the 
Arctic — Jammed in the Pack — Roughing it in the Ice — Old 
Junk — The Doctor's Hair Restorer — Various Incidents, . . 269 
CHAPTER XVIII 
Off to the North again— Open Sea — In the Engine-Room — Notes on 
Matrimony — The South Shetlands — Out of the Polar World — 
Cape Horn Sea — Jock Harvey Yarns — The Falklands again, . 337 
CHAPTER XIX. By W. S. BRUCE, Naturalist on the 
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