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CONTENTS 
Preface vii 
I The Origin of the Idea i 
II The Intellectual Sleep and the Awakening . . io 
III Searching for the South Land 28 
IV The Achievement of James Cook 56 
V American Sealers in the South 91 
VI Bellingshausen's Antarctic Voyage . . . . 114 
VII Weddell's Farthest 131 
VIII Enderby Brothers and the Antarctic .... 146 
IX The Dawn of the Victorian Era 174 
X Dumont D’Urville and the French Dashes 
toward the South Pole 193 
XI Charles Wilkes and the United States Ex- 
ploring Expedition 211 
XII James Clark Ross 249 
XIII The Discovery of Victoria Land 262 
XIV Hairbreadth Escapes in the Ice 289 
XV The Last Antarctic Voyage of the Erebus and 
Terror 3*4 
XVI The Generation of Averted Interest 327 
XVII The Challenger 344 
XVIII Steam Whalers Bound South 362 
XIX The First Antarctic Night 383 
XX Early Expeditions of the Twentieth Century 406 
XXI The Raising of the Siege 433 
Appendix : The Principal Antarctic Voyages Chronologically 
Arranged, with References to the Literature of the 
Subj ect 443 
Index 45 1 
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