CONTENTS 
CHAPTER I 
PAGE 
Written in the North-East Trades, recalling our departure from Edin- 
burgh and the University Hall, . . ■ . . . . . i 
CHAPTER II 
In Dundee we sign Articles as Assistant-Surgeon on the Barque 
Ba/ana 9 bound for the Antarctic and the Adjacent Seas — We 
bid farewell to Dundee and sail North to make the Atlantic by 
the Pentland Firth, 14 
CHAPTER III 
\ 
A Short Account of the Origin and Objects of the Dundee Antarctic 
Expedition — We have a long spell of Heavy Weather in the 
i T orth Atlantic, .......... 23 
CHAPTER IV 
Further Notes during the Bad Weather, 37 
CHAPTER V 
Fine Weather at Sea — Life on a Sailing Vessel — Artist's Impressions — 
Sailors — Sailors' Songs — Willie Watson, 42 
CHAPTER VI 
Old Horse Day— Song, < The Dead Horse,' 
74 
