CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
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Introductory. — T he Arctic Sea. — Sir John Franklin. — Lady Franklin’s 
Appeal. — ^Organization of the American Grinnell Expedition KJ 
CHAPTER II. 
Preparations for Departure. — The Advance and Rescue. — Equipments. — 
Officers and Crew 17 
CHAPTER III. 
Departure from New York. — 'Creature Comforts. — First Iceberg. — Off St. 
John’s - 21, 
CHAPTER IV. 
Davis’s Straits. — Counter-drift. — Beginning of Arctic Day. — Fogs.— The 
Sukkertoppen 29 
CHAPTER V. 
Whale-fish Islands. — Disco. — The Emma Eugenia. — Kayacks. — The 
I.anding. — Esquimaux Huts 3.) 
CHAPTER VI. 
Boat Party to Lievely. — Royal Inspectorate. — Purchase of Furs. — Floral 
and geological Character. — Field Ice i 
CHAPTER VII. 
The Middle Ice. — The North Water. — Omenak’s Fiord. — Interior Water 
Connection between Coasts of Greenland .js 
CHAPTER Vm. 
Formation of Icebergs.— Debacle from Glacier. — Mr. Gnindeitz, — Color 
and Structure of Berg Ice 54 
CHAPTER IX. 
Svartehuk. — Refraction 61 
CHAPTER X. 
Jumping-off Place.— Honesty of Kayackers.— Fast in “the Pack.’’— Its 
Elements and Form 6,s 
