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Cause of delay in equipment--Fittings of the 'Fox'--Volunteers for Arctic service--Assistance from public departments--Reflections upon the undertaking--Instructions and departure--Orkneys and Greenland--Fine Arctic scenery--Danish establishments in Greenland--Frederickshaab,...
Signs of release--Dearth of animal life--Owl is good beef--Beat out of winter quarters--Our game-list--Reach Fury Beach--Escape from Regent's Inlet--In Baffin's Bay--Captain All...
29. CHAPTER XII.Death of our engineer--Scarcity of game--The cold unusually trying--Jolly, under adverse circumstances--Petersen's information--Return of the sun of 1859--Early spring sledge-pa...
26. CHAPTER IX.Off Cape Warrender--Sight the whalers again--Enter Pond's Bay--Communicate with Esquimaux--Ascend Pond's Inlet--Esquimaux information--Arctic summer abode--An Arctic village--No...
33. CHAPTER XVI.Errors in Franklin's records--Relics found at the cairn--Reflections on the retreat--Returning homeward--Geological remarks--Difficulties of summer sledging--Arrive on board the...
27. CHAPTER X.Leave Pond's Bay--A gale in Lancaster Sound--The Beechey Island Depôt--An Arctic monument--Reflections at Beechey Island--Proceed up Barrow's Strait--Peel Sound--Port Leopold--P...
32. CHAPTER XV.As the Esquimaux of this land, as well as those of Boothia and Pond's Inlet, have long since given up the practice of building stone dwellings--passing their winters in snow-hut...
18. CHAPTER I.It is now a matter of history how Government and private expeditions prosecuted, with unprecedented zeal and perseverance, the search for Sir John Franklin's ships, between the...
31. CHAPTER XIV._7th May._--To avoid snow-blindness, we commenced night-marching. Crossing over from Matty Island towards the King William Island shore, we continued our march southward until m...
30. CHAPTER XIII.Dr. Walker's sledge journey--Snow-blindness attacks Young's party--Departure of all sledge-parties--Equipment of sledge-parties--Meet the same party of natives--Intelligence of...
28. CHAPTER XI.Proceed westward in a boat--Cheerless state of the western sea--Struggles in Bellot Strait--Falcons, good Arctic fare--The resources of Boothia Felix--Future sledge travelling--...
22. CHAPTER V.Burial in the pack--Musk oxen in lat. 80° north--Thrift of the Arctic fox--The aurora affects the electrometer--An Arctic Christmas--Sufferings of Dr. Kane's deserters--Ice acte...
25. CHAPTER VIII._June 8th._--Yesterday morning we passed close outside Buchan Island; it is small but lofty, its north side is almost precipitous, yet notwithstanding this strong indication of...
23. CHAPTER VI._9th March._--A bear was seen this morning; but as he was going away from us, the dogs were brought out in the hope that they might keep him at bay until the sportsmen came up....
20. CHAPTER III._15th August._--Three days of the most perfect calm have sadly taxed our patience. Lovely bright weather, but scarcely a living creature seen. This afternoon the anxiously-looke...
21. CHAPTER IV.Up to the 17th S.E. winds prevailed, forcing the ice into a compact body, and urging it north-westward; subsequently N.W. winds set in, drifting it southward, and separating the...
24. CHAPTER VII._Wednesday night, April 28th._--Safely anchored at Holsteinborg, and moored to the rocks; a charming change, after our position only a few days back. We have been visited by the...
19. CHAPTER II._23rd July._--Sailed the day before yesterday for Godhaab. The fog was thick, and wind strong and contrary, but the current being favorable we found ourselves off the small out-...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Signs of release--Dearth of animal life--Owl is good beef--Beat out of winter quarters--Our game-list--Reach Fury Beach--Escape from Regent's Inlet--In Baffin's Bay--Captain All...
5. CHAPTER V.Burial in the pack--Musk oxen in lat. 80° north--Thrift of the Arctic fox--The aurora affects the electrometer--An Arctic Christmas--Sufferings of an Arctic party--Ice acted on...
12. CHAPTER XII.Death of our engineer--Scarcity of game--The cold unusually trying--Jolly, under adverse circumstances--Petersen's information--Return of the sun of 1859--Early spring sledge-pa...
10. CHAPTER X.Leave Pond's Bay--A gale in Lancaster Sound--The Beechey Island Depôt--An Arctic monument--Reflections at Beechey Island--Proceed up Barrow's Strait--Peel Sound--Port Leopold--P...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Dr. Walker's sledge journey--Snow-blindness attacks Young's party--Departure of all sledge-parties--Equipment of sledge-parties--Meet the same party of natives--Intelligence of...
9. CHAPTER IX.Off Cape Warrender--Sight the whalers again--Enter Pond's Bay--Communicate with Esquimaux--Ascend Pond's Inlet--Esquimaux information--Arctic summer abode--An Arctic village--No...
11. CHAPTER XI.Proceed westward in a boat--Cheerless state of the western sea--Struggles in Bellot Strait--Falcons, good Arctic fare--The resources of Boothia Felix--Future sledge travelling--...
1. CHAPTER I.Cause of delay in equipment--Fittings of the 'Fox'--Volunteers for Arctic service--Assistance from public departments--Reflections upon the undertaking--Instructions and departu...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Errors in Franklin's records--Relics found at the cairn--Reflections on the retreat--Returning homeward--Geological remarks--Difficulties of summer sledging--Arrive on board the...
6. CHAPTER VI.A bear-fight--An ice-nip--Strong gales, rapid drift--The 'Fox' breaks out of the pack--Hanging on to floe-edge--The Arctic bear--An ice tournament--The 'Fox' in peril--A storm i...
8. CHAPTER VII.2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER III.14. CHAPTER XIV.7. CHAPTER VII.15. CHAPTER XV.4. CHAPTER IV.