-"Palmleaf, Sar."--Getting Ready
for the Voyage.--Ship-Stores.--The Howitzer.--The
Big Rifle.--A Good Round Bill at the Outset 9

CHAPTER II.

Up Anchor, and away.--What the Old Folks thought of
it.--The Narrator's Preface.--"Squeamish."--A
North-easter.--Foggy.--The Schooner "Catfish."--
Catching Cod-Fish on the Grand Bank.--The First
Ice.--The Polar Current.--The Lengthening Day.--Cape
Farewell.--We bear away for Cape Resolution.--Hudson's
Straits.--Its Ice and Tides 28

CHAPTER III.

Cape Resolution.--The Entrance into Hudson's Straits.--
The Sun in the North-east.--The Resolution Cliffs--
Sweating among Icebergs.--A Shower and a Fog--An
Anxious Night.--A Strange Rumbling.--Singular
Noises and Explosions--Running into an Iceberg.--In
Tow.--A Big Hailstone drops on Deck.--Boarding an
Iceberg.--Solution of the Explosions.--A Lucky Escape 45

CHAPTER IV.

The Fog lifts.--A Whale in Sight.--Craggy Black
Mountains capped with Snow.--A Novel Carriage for the
Big Rifle.--Mounting the Howitzer.--A Doubtful
Shot.--The Lower Savage Isles.--A Deep Inlet.--
"Mazard's Bay."--A Desolate Island.--An Ice-Jam.--A
Strange Blood-red Light.--Solution of the Mystery.--
Going Ashore.--Barren Ledges.--Beds of Moss.--A Bald
Peak.--An Alarm.--The Schooner in Jeopardy.--The
Crash and Thunder of the Ice.--Tremendous Tides 69

CHAPTER V.

A Dead Narwhal.--Snowy Owls.--Two Bears in Sight.--
Firing on them with the Howitzer.--A Bear-Hunt among
the Ice.--An Ice "Jungle."--An Exciting Chase.--The
Bear turns.--Palmleaf makes "a Sure Shot."--"Run,
you Black Son!" 93

CHAPTER VI.

The Middle Savage Isles.--Glimpse of an Esquimau
Canoe.--Firing at a Bear with the Cannon-Rifle.--A
Strange Sound.--The Esquimaux.--Their Kayaks.--They
come on board.--An Unintelligible Tongue.--"Chymo." 106

CHAPTER VII.

The Husky Belles.--_We-we_ and _Caubvick_.--"_Abb_,"
she said.--All Promenade.--Candy at a Discount.--
"_Pillitay, pillitay!_"--Old Trull and the Husky
Matron.--Gorgeous Gifts.--Adieu to the Arctic Beauties 125

CHAPTER VIII.

The Husky Chief.--Palmleaf Indignant.--A Gun.--Sudden
Apparition of the Company's Ship.--We hold a Hasty
Council.--In the Jaws of the British Lion.--An Armed
Boat.--Repel Boarders!--Red-Face waxes w