CONTENTS.
PART THE FIRST.
RUINS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Ice and Breakers
17
CHAPTER II.
Free from Danger
20
CHAPTER III.
A hopeful Town in a hopeless Place
26
CHAPTER IV.
Eric the Red
39
CHAPTER V.
“The Arctic Six”
45
CHAPTER VI.
Up the Fiord in an Oomiak
51
CHAPTER VII.
The Ruins of Ericsfiord
62
CHAPTER VIII.
The Northmen in Greenland
71
CHAPTER IX.
The Northmen in America
77
CHAPTER X.
The Last Man
82
CHAPTER XI.
A Disconsolate Lover
92
CHAPTER XII.
The Church at Julianashaab
98
CHAPTER XIII.
A Greenland Parliament
101
CHAPTER XIV.
A Greenland Ball
112
PART THE SECOND.
PALACES OF NATURE.
CHAPTER I.
Ice and Snow
125
CHAPTER II.
Glaciers and Icebergs
129
CHAPTER III.
The Solitary Hut of Peter Motzfeldt
137
CHAPTER IV.
The Glacier
146
CHAPTER V.
Crossing the Glacier
153
CHAPTER VI.
Speculations
166
CHAPTER VII.
Measurements of Glaciers
172
CHAPTER VIII.
The Birth of an Iceberg
175
CHAPTER IX.
A Narrow Escape
179
CHAPTER X.
Icebergs Critically Examined
186
CHAPTER XI.
ManversusMosquitoes
197
CHAPTER XII.
A Picnic on the Glacier
201
CHAPTER XIII.
Bound for the Arctic Circle
206
PART THE THIRD.
UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN.
CHAPTER I.
Across the Arctic Circle
215
CHAPTER II.
Beyond Civilization
240
CHAPTER III.
Ice-Navigation
253
CHAPTER IV.
Hunting by Steam
263
CHAPTER V.
Among the Ice-fields of Melville Bay
284
CHAPTER VI.
The Last White Man
294
CHAPTER VII.
The Fiord of Aukpadlartok
309
CHAPTER VIII.
Upernavik
318
CHAPTER IX.
Disco Island
328
CHAPTER X.
Jacobshavn
339
CHAPTER XI.
A Week at Godhavn
348