Chapter XI

Serious News—The North Greenland Detachments—The Missing
Sledge-crews—Drifting with the Polar Pack—A Forced March of
Thirty-two Hours—“Chatel’s Grotto” and the “Coal Mine”—Climate
Past and Present—The Return Southward—A Pool in Kennedy
Channel—Race against Winter—New Ice—Out Fires—The North Water at
Last—The “Pandora’s” Depôt—News from Home—Conclusion, 75

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHROMOGRAPHS.

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I.—GODHAVN HARBOUR, DISCO ISLAND, JULY 10, 1875, 13

II.—FOULKE FIORD AND THE INLAND ICE OF GREENLAND, JULY 28, 1875, 17

III.—MUSK OX HUNT, DISCOVERY HARBOUR, MIDNIGHT, AUGUST 25, 1875, 25

IV.—FLOEBERG BEACH AND THE POLAR SEA, LOOKING NORTH FROM THE
CREST OF CAPE RAWSON, JULY, 1876, 28

V.—WINTER QUARTERS _OUTSIDE_, FROM THE FLOES ASTERN OF H.M.S.
“ALERT,” DECEMBER, 1876, 37

VI.—THE DECK: MORNING INSPECTION AND PRAYERS, 40

VII.—WINTER QUARTERS _INSIDE_ H.M.S. “ALERT”—THE WARDROOM, 43

VIII.—LUNAR HALOES, 44

IX.—THE DAWN OF 1876. H.M.S. “ALERT” IN WINTER QUARTERS, 50

X.—THE “ALERT” IN WINTER QUARTERS, FROM AMONGST THE BARRIER
BERGS, MARCH, 1876, 50

XI.—WINTER QUARTERS, FROM AMONGST THE FLOEBERGS, LOOKING SOUTH,
MARCH, 1876, 56

XII.—A FLOEBERG, SIMMON’S ISLAND, APRIL, 1876, 59

XIII.—ON THE NORTHERN MARCH, APRIL 8, 1876, 60

XIV.—THE MOST NORTHERN GRAVE, JUNE, 1876, 65

XV.—BACK FROM THE FARTHEST NORTH, 68

XVI.—THE LAST OF THE PALEOCRYSTIC FLOE, KANE’S OPEN POLAR SEA,
CAPE CONSTITUTION, FRANKLIN AND CROZIER ISLANDS IN THE
DISTANCE, AUGUST 20, 1876, 80

SKETCHES.

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Sanderson’s Hope, 12

Eskimo Boy with Fish, 14

Twin Glacier Valley, 18

Our White Cat “Pops,” 19

Walrus, 20

Eskimo Tent-Circles, 22

Cape Hawkes, 23

Cairns on Washington Irving Island, 24

View from the Top of Hannah Island, 25

Head of Musk Ox, 26

Dragged at the Heels of a Dog-team, 31

A Ravine in the Stratified Ice, 31

Inside the Unifiler House, 36

Building Snow Houses, 38

Effect of Extreme Cold on a Candle, 39

Return from a Winter Walk, 42

Examining Thermometer: Minus 73°.4, 47

Camp of Sledge Party, 56

The Day’s March Done, 58

Crevasse near Cape Joseph Henry, 60

Mirage, 7th April, 1875, 61

Petersen’s Grave, 64

The North Coast of Greenland, 68

Running the Gauntlet, 73

Eskimo Bird-Shelter, 74

Chatel’s Grotto, 80

Allman Bay, 82

Device on Delf-ware of the Expedition, 83

MARCUS WARD & CO., LONDON & BELFAST.

SKETCH MAP

OF TRACK OF EXPEDITION.

_________ OUTWARD TRACK OF SHIPS

......... SLEDGE TRACKS

_________ HOMEWARD TRACK OF SHIPS ]

SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA.