LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| FULL-PAGE PLATES. | |
| PAGE | |
”Alert” and “Discovery” | Frontispiece |
Polar Bears | To face [46] |
Winter Quarters H.M.S. “Alert” | [151] |
Highest Northern Camp | [308] |
Reducing a Floe-berg | [349] |
H.M.S. “Alert” forced on Shore | [351] |
| SMALLER WOODCUTS. | |
Seals basking on the Ice | [23] |
Eskimo Women | [28] |
Walruses | [75] |
Cape Hawks | [84] |
Plan of Ice Dock | [88] |
”The Moaning of the Tied” | [89] |
Musk Oxen | [105] |
Knots | [111] |
Dog-sledge in difficulties | [131] |
Start of the Autumn Sledges | [143] |
Diagram of Magnetic Observatories | [153] |
Flag-staff Point (Cape Sheridan) | [155] |
Royal Arctic Theatre—Scene from “Aladdin and theWonderful Scamp” | [170] |
Nellie | [189] |
Lemmings | [212] |
Cairn Hill | [220] |
Sledge under sail | [231] |
Dogs and Sledge | [247] |
Getting ready to “Bag” | [269] |
Chart of Outward and Return Tracks | [274] |
Interior of Tent | [280] |
A Packed Sledge | [281] |
Snow-bunting | [319] |
Brent-goose and Eider-ducks | [340] |
Allman Bay | [355] |
Fulmar Petrels (“Mollies”) | [361] |
Farewell! | [369] |
Map showing the Discoveries of the Arctic Expedition, 1875-6 | To face [1] |
THE GREAT FROZEN SEA.
CHAPTER I.
FITTING OUT.
| “Vitailled was the shippe, it is no drede, Habundantly for hire a ful long space: And other necessaries that shuld nede She had ynow, heried be Godde’s grace: For wind and weather, Almighty God purchace, And bring hire home, I can no better say But in the see she driveth forth hire way.” Chaucer (Man of Lawe’s Tale). |
The above quaint lines, written five hundred years ago, well describe the scenes that were being enacted during the months of April and May, 1875, in Portsmouth Dockyard.