CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER X. 
PAGE 
Foreign Sailors—Old Stagers—The Snow Goose—A Remote Guano 
Bed—Geological Rambles.255 
CHAPTER XI. 
Barentsz’s Voyage—Nova Zenibla—Russians and Hollanders— 
Linschoten—Gerard le Ver—The Waigatz—Adventure with a 
Bear—Barentsz and Rijp—Beeren Island—Commencement of 
Winter—Sun Disappears—Effects of Refraction—Scientific 
Observations—Death of Barentsz—Barentsz’s Relics . . 268 
CHAPTER XII. 
Professor Nordenskiold—Boats for the Journey—Method of Travel¬ 
ling—Parry’s Journal—Latitude 81° 31' 41 // N.—Meteoro¬ 
logical Observations—Stout-built Boats—Thickness of the Ice 
■—Formation of Ice—Long Time getting to 83°—If they had 
a Steamer—New Appliances—Dogs not Approved of—Shall 
we go North ?—Our Schooner—Whitby Lights—Old Customs 
Preserved—Scientific Inquiry in the North—Spitzbergen 
Route—Navigation comparatively Easy—Smith Sound Advo¬ 
cates— The Lydiana — New Land Reconnoitred — Iceberg 
System.301 
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