CONTENTS.


PART THE FIRST.

RUINS.

[CHAPTER I.]

PAGE

Ice and Breakers

17

[CHAPTER II.]

Free from Danger

20

[CHAPTER III.]

A hopeful Town in a hopeless Place

26

[CHAPTER IV.]

Eric the Red

39

[CHAPTER V.]

“The Arctic Six”

45

[CHAPTER VI.]

Up the Fiord in an Oomiak

51

[CHAPTER VII.]

The Ruins of Ericsfiord

62

[CHAPTER VIII.]

The Northmen in Greenland

71

[CHAPTER IX.]

The Northmen in America

77

[CHAPTER X.]

The Last Man

82

[CHAPTER XI.]

A Disconsolate Lover

92

[CHAPTER XII.]

The Church at Julianashaab

98

[CHAPTER XIII.]

A Greenland Parliament

101

[CHAPTER XIV.]

A Greenland Ball

112


PART THE SECOND.

PALACES OF NATURE.

[CHAPTER I.]

Ice and Snow

125

[CHAPTER II.]

Glaciers and Icebergs

129

[CHAPTER III.]

The Solitary Hut of Peter Motzfeldt

137

[CHAPTER IV.]

The Glacier

146

[CHAPTER V.]

Crossing the Glacier

153

[CHAPTER VI.]

Speculations

166

[CHAPTER VII.]

Measurements of Glaciers

172

[CHAPTER VIII.]

The Birth of an Iceberg

175

[CHAPTER IX.]

A Narrow Escape

179

[CHAPTER X.]

Icebergs Critically Examined

186

[CHAPTER XI.]

Man versus Mosquitoes

197

[CHAPTER XII.]

A Picnic on the Glacier

201

[CHAPTER XIII.]

Bound for the Arctic Circle

206


PART THE THIRD.

UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN.

[CHAPTER I.]

Across the Arctic Circle

215

[CHAPTER II.]

Beyond Civilization

240

[CHAPTER III.]

Ice-Navigation

253

[CHAPTER IV.]

Hunting by Steam

263

[CHAPTER V.]

Among the Ice-fields of Melville Bay

284

[CHAPTER VI.]

The Last White Man

294

[CHAPTER VII.]

The Fiord of Aukpadlartok

309

[CHAPTER VIII.]

Upernavik

318

[CHAPTER IX.]

Disco Island

328

[CHAPTER X.]

Jacobshavn

339

[CHAPTER XI.]

A Week at Godhavn

348