Chapter II: ON THE FROZEN SEA page 348-376
1. The day for abandoning the ship comes.—2. We start.—3. The
dogs.—4. We return to the ship to replenish the stores.—5.
Shooting bears.—6. Reach Lamont Island.—7. Return to the ship
for the jolly boat.—8. Impatience to launch our boats.—9. Launch
at last.—10. Shoot a seal.—11. Quotations from the journal.—12.
Crossing fissures.—13. Disheartening efforts.—14. From one floe
to another.—15. Carlsen.—16. Life in the boats.—17. Our dreadful
situation.—18. Our rations diminished.—19. Forcing our way.—20.
Pushing floes asunder.—21. No advance, but great efforts.—22.
Delight caused by an advance of four miles a day.—23. Secure
a bear.—24. Our progress greatly increases.—25. Ice-hummocks
everywhere.—26. Alternate launching and drawing up the boats.—27.
Increased progress.—28. The swell of the ocean.—29. Shut in once
more.—30. Contrivances to pass away the time.—31. Calking the
boats.—32. We reach the open sea.—33. Farewell to the Frozen
Ocean.
CHAPTER III.
ON THE OPEN SEA _page_ 377-389
1. Sight of the open sea.—2. Compelled to kill the dogs.—3. We
take a last look at the ice.—4. Fifty miles from land.—5. We
sight Novaya Zemlya.—6. We hold on our course.—7. Vain attempt to
land on Novaya Zemlya.—8. Difference in the climate in various
years.—9. Land in Gwosdarew Bay.—10. Step on land once more.—11.
Coast of Novaya Zemlya.—12. Look in vain for a sail.—13. Our
provisions nearly exhausted.—14. We divide the remnant of
food.—15. Deliverance at last.—16. The schooner _Nikolai_.—17.
Our reception on board.—18. We hear the news from Europe.—19.
Captain Voronin agrees to take us to Norway.—20. The crew of the
_Nikolai_.—21. We run along the coast of Lapland.—22. Landing at
Vardö.—23. Reception.
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