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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 liealth of Crews. — Morale of Officers and Men. — Approacli of 
Day. — Sunrise, Noon, and Sunset in one. — El regresado del Sol . — 
Theatre * 283 
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 tw’o 
Cooks. — Our lowest Temperature. — Hygienic Resources 297 
CHAPTER XXXV. 
Meteors. — Scintillation of Planets. — Auroras. — Day Auroras - 312 
CHAPTER XXXVL 
The Rescue in her Icc Dock. — Treatment of Senrvy. — Imagination. — 
Progress of Disease. — Meteors, Spiculae, Parhelion. — Imperfect Observa- 
tions. — Hale of Drift. — Water. — Erost Smoke. 324 
CHAPTER XXXVir. 
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, — Thermometrical Fallacies. — Clear 
M'ater.— Endosmosis. — Salting tlie 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-blindiiess 354 
CHAPTER XL. 
Trying to cut out. — Scurv)'. — Costume, Skill in Tailoring. — Birds. — Land, 
Cape Searle, — Condition of the Advance. — Ineffectual 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 W'ater through the Ice. — Sum- 
mary of May 
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