Chapter 4

Story of Era.--Assistance of Goodwill.--Madeira.--Man-of-War.--Dinner on Ship-board.--Computing Latitude.--Pipe to Dinner.--The Azores.-- Newfoundland.--Newfoundland Dogs.--Greenland.--Whale Fishing.--Flying Fish.--A Ship In the Polar Regions.--An Awful Sight.--The Geysers. --Icelanders.--Spitzbergen.--The Ferroe Islands.--Maelstrom.--The Norwegian Mouse.--Hudson's Bay.--Hudson's Straits.--Nova Scotia.--Henry May.--The Ancient Mariner.--Cuba.--Jamaica.--Beauty of Jamaica.--A Hurricane.--Devastation.--Ruins of Yucatan.--Indians of Mexico.--The American Lakes.--Niagara.--The Caribbean Sea.--Panama.--Gala Days.--Diving for Pearls.--The Sea-Boy's Grave.--The Funeral.--Gulf of Trieste.--Guiana.--Brazil.--Rio de Janeiro.--Montevideo.--Patagonia. --Cape Horn.--Depth of the Atlantic