Inspection of the Schooner.--Method of Repairing.--The Serious Nature of the Injury.--The Schooner unfit for any further Ice-Encounters.--Examination of my Resources.--Plans for the Future
The Arctic Spring.--Snow disappearing.--Plants show Signs of Life.--Return of the Birds.--Change in the Sea.--Refitting the Schooner.--The Esquimaux.--Visit to Kalutunah.--Kalutunah's Account of the Esquimau Traditions.--Hunting-Grounds contracted by the Accumulation of Ice.--Hardships of their Life.--Their Subsistence.--The Race dwindling away.--Visit to the Glacier.--Re-survey of the Glacier.--Kalutunah catching Birds.--A Snow-Storm and a Gale.--The Mid-day of the Arctic Summer
The Arctic Summer.--The Flora.--The Ice dissolving.--A Summer Storm of Rain, Hail, and Snow.--The Terraces.--Ice Action.--Upheaval of the Coast.--Geological Interest of Icebergs and the Land-Ice.--A Walrus Hunt.--The "Fourth."--Visit to Littleton Island.--Great Numbers of Eider-Ducks and Gulls.--The Ice breaking up.--Critical Situation of the Schooner.--Taking Leave of the Esquimaux.--Adieu to Port Foulke
Leaving Port Foulke.--Effort to reach Cape Isabella.--Meet the Pack and take Shelter at Littleton Island.--Hunting.--Abundance of Birds and Walrus.--Visit to Cairn Point.--Reaching the West Coast.--View from Cape Isabella.--Plans for the Future.--Our Results.--Chances of reaching the Polar Sea discussed.--The Glaciers of Ellesmere Land
Leaving Smith Sound.--Crossing the North Water.--Meeting the Pack.--The Sea and Air teeming with Life.--Remarkable Refraction.--Reaching Whale Sound.--Surveying in a Boat.--The Sound traced to its Termination.--Meeting Esquimaux at Iteplik.--Habits of the Esquimaux.--Marriage Ceremony.--The Decay of the Tribe.--View of Barden Bay.--Tyndall Glacier
Homeward Bound.--Entering Melville Bay.--Encounter with a Bear.--Meeting the Pack.--Making the "South Water."--Reaching Upernavik.--The News.--To Goodhaven.--Liberality of the Danish Government and the Greenland Officials.--Driven out of Baffin Bay by a Gale.--Crippled by the Storm and forced to take Shelter in Halifax.--Hospitable Reception.--Arrival in Boston.--Realize the State of the Country.--The Determination.--Conclusion
PLAN OF THE EXPEDITION.--FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT.--APPEAL TO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.--AID SOLICITED.--PUBLIC LECTURES.--LIBERALITY OF VARIOUS SOCIETIES AND INDIVIDUALS.--VESSEL PURCHASED IN BOSTON.--INTEREST MANIFESTED IN THAT CITY.--DIFFICULTY IN OBTAINING A PROPER CREW.--ORGANIZATION OF THE PARTY.--SCIENTIFIC OUTFIT.--ABUNDANT SUPPLIES.