href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@43608@[email protected]#page2" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">2; special fittings, 3; selection of officers and men, 5; kindness of friends, 6; games and musical instruments, 7; visitors to the ships, 8; departure, 9; arrival at Bantry Bay, 12; the voyage commenced, 13.

Chapter II. The Voyage to Disco.

Tests of physical capacity, 15; regular issue of lime-juice, 16; gales of wind in the Atlantic, 17; slow progress, 19; whales, 20; the first ice, 22; the Land of Desolation, 22; seals, 23; the Greenland coast, 25; fishing for cod, 25; arrival at Godhavn, 26.

Chapter III. The Greenland Settlements.

An Eskimo dance, 28; Eskimo dogs, 29; amusements at Godhavn, 30; ascent of the Lyngenmarkfjeld, 31; aid from the “Valorous,” 33; tradition of Disco, 34; Ritenbenk, 35; part company with “Valorous,” 36; the Waigat Strait, 36; dangers in the Waigat, 37; Proven, 38; Hans Hendrik engaged, 39; “Sanderson, his hope,” 39; Upernivik, 41.

Chapter IV. Melville Bay and the North Water.

Preparations for a nip, 43; the middle ice, 44; a bear hunt, 46; the North Water, 47; Cary Island depôt, 49; approaching Smith Sound, 50; enter Smith Sound, 51.

Chapter V. Smith Sound.

Life-boat Cove, 53; visit winter quarters of “Polaris,” 54; Littleton Island, 55; Cape Isabella, 56; stopped by the ice,