CONTENTS.
PART THE FIRST. | |
RUINS. | |
PAGE | |
Ice and Breakers | 17 |
Free from Danger | 20 |
A hopeful Town in a hopeless Place | 26 |
Eric the Red | 39 |
“The Arctic Six” | 45 |
Up the Fiord in an Oomiak | 51 |
The Ruins of Ericsfiord | 62 |
The Northmen in Greenland | 71 |
The Northmen in America | 77 |
The Last Man | 82 |
A Disconsolate Lover | 92 |
The Church at Julianashaab | 98 |
A Greenland Parliament | 101 |
A Greenland Ball | 112 |
PART THE SECOND. | |
PALACES OF NATURE. | |
Ice and Snow | 125 |
Glaciers and Icebergs | 129 |
The Solitary Hut of Peter Motzfeldt | 137 |
The Glacier | 146 |
Crossing the Glacier | 153 |
Speculations | 166 |
Measurements of Glaciers | 172 |
The Birth of an Iceberg | 175 |
A Narrow Escape | 179 |
Icebergs Critically Examined | 186 |
Man versus Mosquitoes | 197 |
A Picnic on the Glacier | 201 |
Bound for the Arctic Circle | 206 |
PART THE THIRD. | |
UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | |
Across the Arctic Circle | 215 |
Beyond Civilization | 240 |
Ice-Navigation | 253 |
Hunting by Steam | 263 |
Among the Ice-fields of Melville Bay | 284 |
The Last White Man | 294 |
The Fiord of Aukpadlartok | 309 |
Upernavik | 318 |
Disco Island | 328 |
Jacobshavn | 339 |
A Week at Godhavn | 348 |