Chapter 2

The Wiltons.--A great Naval Victory.--Monster Fish.--The Downs.--St. Augustine.--Yarmouth.--Brock the Swimmer and Yarmouth Boatman.--The North Sea.--The Bell Rock.--Mr. Barraud.--Jock of Jedburgh.--Wreck of the Forfarshire.--Remarkable Providence.--Denmark.--The Baltic.--Journey to the Gulf of Finland.--Reindeer and Sledge. --Reval.--Superstitions.--Strange Fashions.--Ungern Sternberg. --Gulf of Bothnia.--Islands of the Baltic.--Lapland.--Aurora Borealis.--Russia.--Odessa.--Reflections