AUTHOR OF “A WHALING CRUISE TO BAFFIN’S BAY AND THE GULF OF BOOTHIA,”
AND “THE CRUISE OF THE ‘ROSARIO’”

“There’s a flag on the mast, and it points to the north, And the north holds the land that I love; I will steer back to northward, the heavenly course, Of the winds guiding sure from above.” Frithiof’s “Saga”

SEVENTH EDITION

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd
1894

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TO

The Memory of

REAR-ADMIRAL SHERARD OSBORN, C.B.,

WHO, WHILE HE LIVED,

WAS THE MOVING SPIRIT IN SECURING THE DESPATCH OF