Adrift in the Ice-Fields
Adrift. Page 162.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
1877.
To open to the youth of America a knowledge of some of the winter sports of our neighbors of the maritime provinces, with their attendant pleasures, perils, successes, and reverses, the following tale has been written.
It does not claim to teach any great moral lesson, or even to be a guide to the young sportsman; but the habits of all birds and animals treated of here have been carefully studied, and, with the mode of their capture, have been truthfully described.
Charles Winslow Hall
Adrift in the Ice-Fields.
CAPT. CHARLES W. HALL,
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS:
CHAPTER I.
OUR COMPANY.
CHAPTER II.
BUILDING THE ICE-HOUSES.—MATTHEW COLLINS'S GHOST.
Matthew Collins's Ghost.
CHAPTER III.
THE SILVER THAW.—A FOX HUNT.—ANTHONY WORRELL'S DOG.
A Fox Hunt.
"Old Anthony Worrell and his Newfoundland Dog".
CHAPTER IV.
THE GRAND FLIGHT.—A GOOD STRATAGEM.—THE PACKET LIGHT.
"The Packet Light.
CHAPTER V.
A MAD SPORTSMAN.—SNOW-BLIND.—A NIGHT OF PERIL.
"A Night of Peril.
CHAPTER VI.
ADDITIONS TO THE PARTY.—AN INDIAN OUTFIT.—A CONTESTED ELECTION.
"A Contested Election.
CHAPTER VII.
A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER.—BREAKING UP OF THE ICE.—JIM MOUNTAIN'S FIGHT WITH THE DEVIL.
"Jim Mountain's Fight with the Devil."
CHAPTER VIII.
FLOAT-SHOOTING.—A GENERAL FIELD-DAY.—CHANGES OF THE ICE.
CHAPTER IX.
ADRIFT.
CHAPTER X.
THE COUNCIL.—PASSING THE CAPE.
CHAPTER XI.
TAKING AN INVENTORY.—SETTING UP THE STOVE.
CHAPTER XII.
DOCTORING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.—AN ANXIOUS NIGHT.—FROZEN UP.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE CHAPEL BELL.—THE FIRST SEAL.—THE NORTH CAPE.—A SNOW-SQUALL.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE PACK OPENS.—MYSTERIOUS MURMURS.—LOVE SCENES AND SOUNDS.
CHAPTER XV.
A SAIL.—THE SEALING GROUNDS.—THE ESQUIMAUX LAMP.—AN INDIAN LEGEND.
Peter's Story.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE BREEDING-GROUNDS OF THE SEAL.—A CURIOUS SIGHT.—A SHARP ENCOUNTER.—ICE CHANGES.
CHAPTER XVII.
ENLARGING THE BOAT.—WINGED SCAVENGERS.—NOTICE TO QUIT.
CHAPTER XVIII.
A CHANGE OF BASE.—BUILDING A SNOW-HUT.—THE VIEW FROM THE BERG.—A STRANGE MEETING.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE RING.—THE BURIAL.—A MAUSOLEUM OF ICE.
CHAPTER XX.
A STRANGE LIFE-HISTORY.—AMONG THE RED INDIANS.
Regnar's History.
CHAPTER XXI.
NORTHWARD AGAIN.—THE STEAMER.—TAKING TO THE BOAT.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE FORECASTLE OF THE SEALER.—A SEALER'S STORY.—THE LAST HUNT.—ARRIVAL AT ST. JOHN'S.
A Sealer's Story.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE CAPTAIN'S VISIT.—HOMEWARD BOUND.—BROTHER AND SISTER.