CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER IV. 
TAGE 
Only a Fly—Summer Beverages—Whale Adventure—Death of 
the Whale—Flencing the Whale—Wasted Ice—The Dreamer 
—Cunning of the Bear—Enthusiastic Nimrods—Dead Whale 
—The Farmer—Bear Outwitted—Awkward Complication— 
Deep Sea Soundings . . . * . . .151 
CHAPTER V. 
Miller-Casella Thermometer—Southerly Drift of Ice—Various 
Observations—Temperature Table—Diary Extracts —Star- 
Fish—End of Observations.180 
CHAPTER VI 
Spitzbergen—The Gateway to the Polynia—Moffen Island— 
Walrus—Sea Devils—Moffen Island—New Dangers—Forma¬ 
tion of Ice Floes.194 
CHAPTER VII. 
Difficulties in Narrow Waters—The Wounded Sea Bird—Nature 
most Desolate—Deer Stalking—The Drive . . . .211 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Russian Memorials—Long Years of Waiting—Landing in Pursuit 
of Game—White Whale—N etting Large Game . . . 223 
CHAPTER IX. 
A Short Cut—A Dangerous Descent—A Signal not Understood— 
Reindeer—Game less Abundant—A Day’s Outing—On the 
Mountain Side—A Scramble—A Push and a Pinch—A Love 
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