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CONTENTS. 
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LETTER X. 
PAGE 
Bucolics — the Goat — Maid Marian — a Lapp Lady—Lapp 
Love-making — the Sea-Horseman — the Gulf Stream — 
Arctic Currents—a Dingy Expedition—a School of Peri¬ 
patetic Fishes — Alten — the Chatelaine of Kaafiord 
— still Northward Ho ! .245 
LETTER XI. 
We sail for Bear Island, and Spitzbergen—Cherie Island 
—Barentz—Sir Hugh Willoughby—Parry’s Attempt to 
REACH THE NORTH POLE—AGAIN AMONGST THE ICE—ICEBLINK— 
first Sight of Spitzbergen—Wilson—Decay of our Hopes 
—constant Struggle with the Ice—we reach the 80° n. 
LAT.—A FREER SEA—WE LAND IN SPITZBERGEN'—ENGLISH BAY 
— Lady Edith’s Glacier—-a midnight Photograph — no 
Reindeer to be seen—et Ego in Arctis—Winter in Spitz¬ 
bergen—Ptarmigan—the Bear-saga—the “ Foam ” Monu¬ 
ment—Southwards—Sight the Greenland Ice—a Gale— 
Wilson on the Malstrom—Breakers ahead — Roost — 
taking a Sight—Throndhjem.274 
LETTER XII. 
Throndhjem—Harald Haarfager—King Hacon’s last Battle 
—Olaf Tryggvesson—the “ Long Serpent ”—Saint Olave 
—Thormod the Scald—the Jarl of Lade—the Cathedral 
—Harald Hardrada—the Battle of Stanford Bridge—a 
Norse Ball—Odin and his Paladins.340 
LETTER XIII. 
Copenhagen—Bergen—the Black Death—Sigurdr—Home¬ 
wards .385 
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