ILLUSTRATED

1899


[The Tasman to the rescue]
[The approach of the Halbrane]
[Going aboard the Halbrane]
[Cook’s route was effectually barred by ice-floes]
[Taking in sail under difficulties]
[“There, look there! That’s a fin-back!”]
[Hunt to the rescue]
[Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm]
[Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar]
[Dirk Peters shows the way]
[The half-breed in the crow’s-nest]
[The Halbrane fast in the iceberg]
[The Halbrane, staved in, broken up]
[“I was afraid; I got away from him”]
[William Guy]
[An Antarctic Mystery]
[The Paracuta]

[Chapter I. The Kerguelen Islands.]
[Chapter II. The Schooner Halbrane]
[Chapter III. Captain Len Guy]
[Chapter IV. From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island]
[Chapter V. Edgar Poe’s Romance]
[Chapter VI. An Ocean Waif]
[Chapter VII. Tristan D’Acunha]
[Chapter VIII. Bound for the Falklands]
[Chapter IX. Fitting out the Halbrane]
[Chapter X. The Outset of the Enterprise]
[Chapter XI. From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle]
[Chapter XII. Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall]
[Chapter XIII. Along the Front of the Icebergs]
[Chapter XIV. A Voice in a Dream]
[Chapter XV. Bennet Islet]
[Chapter XVI. Tsalal Island]
[Chapter XVII. And Pym]
[Chapter XVIII. A Revelation]
[Chapter XIX. Land]
[Chapter XX. “Unmerciful Disaster"]
[Chapter XXI. Amid the Mists]
[Chapter XXII. In Camp]
[Chapter XXIII. Found at Last]
[Chapter XXIV. Eleven Years in a Few Pages]
[Chapter XXV. “We Were the First"]
[Chapter XXVI. A Little Remnant]

AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY

(Also called THE SPHINX OF THE ICE FIELDS)