ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
The “Panther” among the Icebergs
Frontispiece.
View of Julianashaab
27
The Oomiak and Crew
46
View of the Old Norse Ruins
63
Ground-plan of Ruins
67
Concordia at the Picnic
93
A Greenland Parliament in Session
104
Concordia Dressed for the Ball
119
Front View of the Glacier
147
Crossing the Crevasse on an Ice-bridge
160
Map of the Glacier
162
The Glacier of Sermitsialik
167
Vertical Section of Glacier
170
The Kryolite Mine at Arsut Fiord
207
The Peak of Kresarsoak
221
Entering the Fiord
224
The Lumme of the Arctic Sea
226
Shooting Lumme
228
Esac
231
Esac’s Hut
233
The Governor and Family
238
View of Upernavik and Kresarsoak
241
Eider-ducks
247
The Polar Bear
254
Seals
256
The Devil’s Thumb
261
The Panther after the Bears
268
The Captain after the Bear
278
Moored to a Floe in Melville Bay
287
The Iceberg Castle
291
We Steam away from the Midnight Sun
295
The most Northern House on the Globe
299
Jensen and his Family
303
An Arctic Witch
307
We go through an Iceberg to call on Philip
310
Philip, the Hunter, and his Sons
312
The Raven
317
Hans and his Family
322
The Great Auk
337
Iceberg in Jacobshavn Fiord
347
“Out upon time! it will leave no moreOf the things to come than the things before!Out upon time! who forever will leaveBut enough of the past for the future to grieveO’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be;What we have seen our sons shall see—Remnants of things that have passed away,Fragments of stone, reared by creatures of clay.”Byron’sSiege of Corinth.
“Out upon time! it will leave no moreOf the things to come than the things before!Out upon time! who forever will leaveBut enough of the past for the future to grieveO’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be;What we have seen our sons shall see—Remnants of things that have passed away,Fragments of stone, reared by creatures of clay.”Byron’sSiege of Corinth.
“Out upon time! it will leave no moreOf the things to come than the things before!Out upon time! who forever will leaveBut enough of the past for the future to grieveO’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be;What we have seen our sons shall see—Remnants of things that have passed away,Fragments of stone, reared by creatures of clay.”Byron’sSiege of Corinth.
“Out upon time! it will leave no more
Of the things to come than the things before!
Out upon time! who forever will leave
But enough of the past for the future to grieve
O’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be;
What we have seen our sons shall see—
Remnants of things that have passed away,
Fragments of stone, reared by creatures of clay.”
Byron’sSiege of Corinth.