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
(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.)
TO
The Memory of
REAR-ADMIRAL SHERARD OSBORN, C.B.,
WHO, WHILE HE LIVED,
WAS THE MOVING SPIRIT IN SECURING THE DESPATCH OF