Arctic Experiences : Aboard the Doomed Polaris Expedition and Six Months Adrift on an Ice-Floe

by Tyson, George E.

• ISBN13: 9780815411895
• ISBN10: 0815411898
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

In 1871 veteran navigator George Emory Tyson joined the first American expedition to explore the North Pole, but by August 1872, after the mysterious death of the Polaris' leader, Charles Francis Hall, the ice pack in which the ship was travelling began to break up. Nineteen crew members, including Tyson, were stranded on an ice-floe when the ship abandoned them. They were not rescued until April 30, 1873. Unavailable for nearly a century, Arctic Experiences is the fierce, harrowing chronicle of Tyson's incredible feat of endurance and survival.

Table of Contents

Introductory Chapter	19	(56)
The Northern Sphinx
Arctic Nomenclature
Geographical Mistakes
The Hyperboreans
The Pre-Columbian Era
Frobisher's Gold
Gilbert and Others
Henry Hudson
Russian Explorers
Government Rewards
Early American
Enterprise
The Whaler Scoresby
Remarkable Land Journeys
Combined Sea and Land Explorations
The Era of Modern Discoveries
Parry's Drift
Steam first used in the Arctic Seas
The Magnetic Pole fixed
Back's Discoveries
Dease and Simpson
Rae on Boothia
Sir John Franklin's Last Expedition
Relief Parties
A glorious Spectacle
First Grinnell Expedition
Ten Exploring
Vessels meet at Beechey Island
Dr. Kane
Rumors of Cannibalism
The
Problem of the North-west Passage solved
Bellot
Obtuseness of the British
Naval Board
Providential Mental Coercion
The Forlorn Hope
Dr. Hayes
Profit and Loss
What is the Use of Arctic Explorations?
Remote Advantages
Ancient Gradgrinds
Arctic Failures and Successes
Unexplored Area
Modern Chivalry
A pure Ambition
Captain Tyson's Early Arctic Experience	75	(25)
Captain Tyson's Reflections on the Ice-floe
Nativity
Early Life
Ships as a
Whaler
Death of Shipmate
Arrives at the Greenland Seas
The ``Middle Ice''
The ``North Water''
First Sight of Esquimaux
The Danes in Greenland
The Devil's Thumb
Meets De Haven
Whales and their Haunts
A prolonged Struggle with s Whale
Sailors' Tricks
Cheating the Mollimokes
Young Tyson volunteers to winter ashore at Cumberland Gulf
The Pet Seal
Life Ashore
Relieved by the True Love
Is taken to England
Returns to the Arctic Regions
Sights the abandoned British Ship Resolute
With three Companions boards the Resolute
Finds Wine in the Glasses
All have a good Time
Don the Officers' Uniforms
Returns to his Ship
Ships as Second Mate In the George Henry
As First Officer
As Captain of the Brig Georgiana
Meets Captain Charles F. Hall
Witnesses and tries to prevent the Loss of the Rescue
Sails as Master of the Orray Taft, of New Bedford
of the Antelope
Sails to Repulse Bay, and takes the first Whale captured in those Waters
Again meets Captain Hall, and supplies him with a Boat
Peculiar Electrical Phenomena at Repulse Bay
Sails in the Top-sail Schooner Era
Meets Captain Hall, then ``in training'' with the Esquimaux
Log-book Records
Winters ashore at Niountelik Harbor
Removes from New London to Brooklyn
Sails in the Polaris as Assistant Navigator
The Polaris Expedition	100	(7)
The North Polar Expedition authorized by Congress
Captain Hall's Commission
The Periwinkle, afterward Polaris, selected
Letter of Captain Hall's
Description of the Steamer Polaris
Liberal Supplies
A patent Canvas Boat
Books presented by J. Carson Brevoort
A characteristic Letter of Captain
Hall's
Au Invitation to visit him at the North Pole
Chapter IV	107	(6)
The Polaris put into Commission
Official Instructions to the Commander
Scientific Directions
Letter of Captain Hall's
List of the Officers and Crew
Biographical Sketch of Captain Hall	113	(16)
Nativity and early Life of Charles Francis Hall
Leaves his native State of New
Hampshire and settles in Ohio
Takes to Journalism
Attracted by Arctic Literature
Unsuccessful Effort to join M`Clintock
Sails for the Arctic Regions in the George Henry, of New London
The Tender Rescue and the Expedition Boat lost in a Storm
He explores Frobisher Bay and Countess of Warwick Sound
Collects Relics of Franklin's Expedition
Returns to the United States
His
Theories regarding the Franklin Expedition
Sails for the North, 1864, in the
Bark Monticello
His Discoveries
Skeletons of Franklin's Men scattered over
King William Land
Annual Reports
His Life with the Esquimaux
Return to the United States
Physical Appearance
Mental Traits
In the Innuit Land he did as the Innuits do
Persevering Efforts to organize the North Polar Expedition
President Grant personally interested
``That Historical Flag''
How he would know when he got to the Pole
His Premonitions
His last Dispatch
Chapter VI	129	(12)
Dr. Emil Bessel
Sergeant Frederick Meyers
Mr. R. W. D. Bryan
Sidney O. Buddington
Hubbard C. Chester
Emil Schuman
William Morton
Letter of Captain Hall's
The Polaris sails
Disaffection on Board
Meets the Swedish Exploring Expedition
Favorable condition of the Ice
United States Ship Congress arrives at Disco with Supplies for the Polaris
Insubordination on Board
Captain Hall's Idiosyncrasy
He ``bids Adieu to the Civilized World''
Notes By Captain Tyson on Board the Polaris	141	(11)
Captain Tyson's Soliloquy on leaving Harbor
A Thunder-storm
Arrive at St. Johns
Icebergs in Sight
Religious Services on board the Polaris by Dr. Newman, of Washington
Prayer at Sea
Esquimau Hans, with Wife, Children, and `` Vermin,'' taken on board
Firing at Walrus
The Sailing-master wants to stop at Port Foulk
The Polaris passes Kane's Winter-quarters
An impassable Barrier of Ice
Misleading Charts
The open Polar Sea recedes from Sight
Afraid of ``Symme's Hole.''
Polaris enters Robeson Channel
Surrounded by Icefields
Council of Officers
Puerile Fears
Sir Edward Belcher
The American Flag raised on ``Hall Land.''
Seeking a Harbor
Repulse Harbor
Thank God Harbor
Providence Berg
Housing the Ship for Winter-quarters
Chapter VIII	152	(7)
A Hunting-party
A cold Survey
Description of Coast-hills
A Musk-ox shot
Landing Provisions
Arctic Foxes
Captain Hall prepares for a Sledge journey
Conversation with Captain Tyson
Off at last
Captain Hall ``forgets some-thing.''
Twenty ``somethings.''
The Sun disappears
Banking the Ship
Chapter IX	159	(7)
Putting Provisions Ashore
Return of Captain Hall
`` Prayer on leaving the Ships.''
Captain Hall taken Sick
What was seen on his Sledge journey
Apoplexy?
M`Clintock's Engineer-Death of Captain Hall
A strange Remark
Preparing the Grave
The Funeral
``I walk on with my Lantern.''
Thus end his ambitious Projects
Chapter X	166	(3)
Captain Buddington passes to the Command
Scientific Observations
The first
Aurora of the Season
Sunday Prayers discontinued
Dr. Bessel Storm-bound in the Observatory
Meyers to the Rescue
An Arctic Hurricane
Fast to the Iceberg
Sawing through the Ice
Electric Clouds
Pressure of Floe-ice
The Iceberg splits in two
The Polaris on her Beam-ends
Hannah, Hans's Wife, and the Children put Ashore
Chapter XI	169	(5)
Thanksgiving
A Paraselene
Dr. Bessel's bad Luck
``It is very dark now.''
Oppressive Silence of the Arctic Night
The Voracity of Shrimps
`` In Hall's Time it was Heaven to this.''
A natural Gentleman
No Service on Christmas
The Polaris rises and falls with the Tide
Futile Blasting
The New Year
Atmospheric Phenomena
The Twilight brightens
Trip to Cape Lupton
Height of the Tides at Thank God Harbor
Chapter XII	174	(5)
An impressive Discussion
Daylight gains on the Night
Barometer drops like a
Cannon-ball
Four mock Moons
Day begins to look like Day
The Fox-traps
The Sun re-appears after an Absence of one hundred and thirty-five Days
Mock Suns
Spring coming
An Exploring-party in Search of Cape Constitution
A Bear-fight with Dogs
New light on Cartography
Tired of canned Meat
Chapter XIII	179	(6)
Sledge vs. Boat
What Chester would do when he got Home
Photographing a
Failure
Off on a Sledge-journey with Mr. Meyers, Joe, and Hans
Habits of the Musk-cattle
Peculiar strategic Position
Encounter a Herd
How the Young are concealed
Dull Sport
Newman Bay
Preparing for Boat-journeys
What does he mean?
Climatic Changes
Glaciers
Wonderful Sportsmen
The Ice thick and hummocky
A dangerous Leak
Chapter XIV	185	(5)
Two Boat-parties arranged
A Disaster
Chester's Boat crushed in the Ice
The ``Historical Flag'' lost
Chester takes the patent Canvas Boat
Captain Tyson's
Boat-party
Reach Newman Bay
Dr. Bessel's Snow-blindness
Drift-wood
Extinct Glaciers
Unfavorable Condition of the Ice
A Proposal rejected
Return to the Ship
Chapter XV	190	(7)
Engineer's Report
A new Inscription
A gentle Awakening
Providence Berg disrupted
Having ``enough of it.''
Lost Opportunities
The Advent of little Esquimau ``Charlie Polaris.''
Beset near Cape Frazier
Alcohol Master
Interruption of his morning ``Nip.''
Drifting with the Floe
Pack-ice in Smith
Sound
The Oil-boiler
The bearded Seal
Preparations for spending another
Winter in the North
A south-westerly Gale
Journal of George E. Tyson, Assistant Navigator on United States Steamer Polaris, Kept on The Ice-Floe	197	(18)
Adrift
The fatal Ice Pressure
``Heave every thing Overboard!''
The Ship breaks away in the Darkness
Children in the Ox-skins
First Night adrift
Snowed under
Roll-call on the Ice-floe
Efforts to regain the Ship
The Polaris coming!
A terrible Disappointment
The overladen Boat
Three Oars, and no Rudder
The Ice breaks beneath us
Drifting to the South-west
Regain the large Floe
Hope of regaining the Polaris abandoned
Building Huts
Native Igloos
Estimating Provisions
Locality of the Separation
Meyers's and Tyson's Opinion
Two Meals a Day
Mice in the Chocolate
Too cold for a Watch
Too weak to stand firmly
Hans kills and eats two Dogs
Natives improvident
Lose Sight of the Sun
The Dogs follow the Food
Chapter XVII	215	(10)
A vain Hunt for Seal
Pemmican
The Dogs starving
Blow-holes of the Seal
Mode of Capture
Sight Cary Island
Hans mistaken for. a Bear
Down with
Rheumatism
One Boat used for Fuel
The Children crying with Hunger
Joe the best Man
The Bread walks off
One square Meal
Bear and Fox-tracks
Effects of lax Discipline
Joe and Hannah
Our Thanksgiving-dinner
Chapter XVIII	225	(9)
Can see the Land
Hans's Hut
Nearly dark: two Hours of Twilight
Economizing
Paper
Northern Lights
Lying still to save Food
``All Hair and Tail.''
Weighing out Rations by Ounces
Heavy Ice goes with the Current
The Esquimaux afraid of Cannibalism
Fox-trap
Set a Seal-net
Great Responsibility, but little Authority
All well but hungry
The fear of Death starved and frozen out of me
The shortest and darkest Day
Christmas
Chapter XIX	234	(12)
Taking account of Stock
Hope lies to the South
Eating Seal-skin
Find it very tough
How to divide n Seal a la Esquimau
Give the Baby the Eyes
Different
Species of Seal
New-year's Day, 1873
Economizing our Lives away
Just see the Western Shore
``Plenty at Disco.''
Thirty-six below Zero
Clothing disappears
A glorious Sound
``Kyack! Kyack!''
Starvation postponed
Thoroughly frightened
Little Tobias sick
Oh, for a sound-headed Man
Four ounces for a Meal
The Sun re-appears after an Absence of eighty-three Days
Chapter XX	246	(13)
Belated Joe
Wrong Calculations
Drift past Disco
Beauty of the Northern
Constellations
Hans unreliable
`` Where Rum and Tobacco grow.''
Forty below Zero
An impolite Visitor
One hundred and third Day on the Ice
Perseverance of the Natives in hunting
Hans loses a good Dog
Beautiful Aurora
The Mercury freezes
Too cold for the Natives to hunt
A little Blubber left
Trust in Providence
Effects of Refraction
Relieving Parties on the Ice
Our Lunch, Seal-skin with the Hair on
A natural Death
One hundred and seven Days without seeing printed Words
Chapter XXI	259	(7)
A solemn Entry made in the Journal, in View of Death
More Security on the Ice-floe than on board the Polaris
Eating the Offal of better Days
Tobias very low
Anticipations of a Break-up
Hope
Joe, Hannah, and little Puney
``I am so hungry.''
An interior View of Hans's Hut; his Family
Talk about reaching the Land
Inexperience of the Men misleads their Judgment
Chapter XXII	266	(13)
Dreary, yet beautiful
The Formation of Icebergs
Where and how they grow
Variety of Form and History
``The Land of Desolation.''
Strength failing
Travel and Rations
Unhealthy Influence of mistaken Views
Managing a Kyack on young Ice
Secures the Seal
Clubbing their Loneliness
Poor little Puney's
Amusement
Any Thing good to eat that don't poison
Narwhals, or Sea-unicorns
A royal Seat
Hans criticised
Cleaning House
Pounding-day
Our Carpet
Lunching by the Yard on Seal's Entrails
``Oh! give me my Harpoon.''
No Clothing fit to hunt in
Inventory of Wardrobe
Narwhals useful in carrying off Ball and Ammunition
Pleasant Sensations in Retrospect
The Skin of the Nose
Castles in the Air
Violent Gale and Snow-storm
Digging out
Three Feet square for Exercise
Dante's Ice-hell
Chapter XXIII	279	(9)
Patching up Clothes
Captain Hall's Rifle
Cutting Fresh-water Ice for Drink
Salt-water Ice to season Soup
Four months' Dirt
Sun Revelations
You are nothing but Bone
That chronic Snow-drift
Seal-flipper for Lunch
Watching a Seal-hole
Eating his ``Jacket.''
Dovekies
The Solace of a Smoke
Native Mode of cleansing Cooking Utensils
The West Coast in Sight
Joe's Valuation of Seals
Prospects dark and gloomy
Bill falls Overboard
Death to the Front
Evidences of Weakness
The Natives alarmed
Washington's Birthday
A novel Sledge
The ``right Way of the Hair.''
Discussions about reaching Shore
Chapter XXIV	288	(17)
Decide to make the Attempt
Foiled by successive Snow-storms
Down to one scant Meal a Day
Land thirty-five Miles off
God alone can help us
Canary-bird Rations
Bear-tracks
A Bird Supper
A Monster Oogjook
Six or seven hundred Pounds of fresh Meat? Thirty Gallons of Oil
Oogjook Sausage
Our Huts resemble Slaughter-houses
Hands and Faces smeared with Blood
Content restored
Taking Observations
Out of the Weed
A Present from Joe
Heat of Esquimaux Huts
Desponding Thoughts
`` So I sit and dream of Plans for Release.''
Terrific Noises portend the breaking up of the Floe
An unbroken Sea office
Hans Astray again
That ``Oogjook Liver.''
The Steward convinced
An Ice-quake in the Night
The Floe breaks twenty yards from the Hut
Floe shattered into hundreds of Pieces
Sixty Hours of Ice, Turmoil, and utter Darkness
The ``Floes'' become a ``Pack.''
Storm abates
Quietly-Drifting
A Choice for Bradford
Our Domain wearing away: Twenty Paces only to the Water
Whistling to charm an Oogjook
A Relapse into Barbarism
Chapter XXV	305	(12)
A Bear prospecting for a Meal
The Ice in an Uproar
Seven Seals in one Day
Spring by Date
The ``Bladder-noses'' appear
Off Hudson Strait
A Bear comes too close
A lucky Shot in the Dark
Description of Ursus maritimus
Milk in the young Seal
Fools of Fortune
We take to the Boat
Rig Washboards
A desperate Struggle to keep Afloat
Alternate between Boat and Floe
Striving to gain the west Shore
Dead-weights
Ice splits
Joe's Hut carried off
Rebuild it
Ice splits again, and destroys Joe's new- Hut
Standing ready for a Jump
Our Breakfast goes down into the Sea
No Blubber for our Lamps
The Ice splits once more, separating Mr. Meyers from the Party
We stand helpless, looking at each other
Meyers unable to manage the Boat
Joe and Hans go to his Relief
All of us but two follow
Springing from Piece to Piece of the Ice
Meyers rescued
He is badly frozen
Mishaps in the Water
High Sea running
Washed out of our Tent by the Sea
Women and Children stowed in the Boat. Not a dry Place to stand on
Ice recloses
Sea subsides
Land Birds appear
No Seal
Very Hungry
Chapter XXVI	317	(9)
Easter-Sunday
Flashes of Divinity
Meyers's Suffering from want of Food
Men very Weak
Fearful Thoughts
A timely Relief
Land once more in Sight
Flocks of Ducks
Grotesque Misery
A Statue of Famine
A desolating Wave
A Foretaste of worse
Manning the Boat in a new Fashion
A Battery of Ice-blocks
All Night ``standing by'' the Boat
A fearful Struggle for Life
Worse off than St. Paul
Daylight at last
Launched once more
Watch and Watch
The Sport and Jest of the Elements
Lack of Food
Half drowned, cold, and hungry
Eat dried Skin saved for Clothing
A Bear! a Bear
Anxious Moments
Poor Polar! God has sent us Food
Recuperating on Bear-meat
A crippled, overloaded Boat
A Battle of the Bergs
Shooting young Bladder-noses
Hoping for Relief
Chapter XXVII	326	(14)
A joyful Sight
A Steamer in View
Lost again
She disappears
Once more we seek Rest upon a small Piece of Ice
The Hope of Rescue keeps us awake
Another Steamer
We hoist our Colors, muster our Fire-arms, fire, and shout
She does not see us
She falls off:-Re-appears
Gone again
Still another Steamer
Deliverance can not be far off
Another Night on the Ice
Hans catches a Baby Seal
``There's a Steamer!''
Very Foggy, and we fear to lose her
Hans goes for her in his Kyack
She approaches
We are saved
All safe on board the Tigress
Amusing Questions
A good Smoke and a glorious Breakfast
Once more able ``to wash and be clean.''
Boarded by Captain De Lane, of the Walrus
Meyers slowly recovering
A severe Gale
Six hundred Seals killed
Captain Bartlett heading for St. Johns
The Esquimaux Children the ``Lions.''
Awaiting the Tailor
Going Home in the United States Steamship Frolic
The Search for the Polaris and the Survivors of the Expedition	340	(10)
The News of the Rescue
Captain Tyson and Party arrive at Washington
Board of Inquiry organized
Testimony given as to lax Discipline
The Juniata, Commander Braine, dispatched, with Coal and Stores, to Disco
Captain James Buddington, Ice-pilot
Captain Braine's Interview with Inspector Karrup Smith, of North Greenland
Juniata at Upernavik
Small Steam-launch Little Juniata essays to cross Melville Bay
Repelled by the Ice
President Grant in Council with Members of the National Academy of Sciences
Purchase of the Tigress
Description of the Vessel
Necessary Alterations
List of Officers
Captain Tyson Acting Lieutenant and Ice-pilot
A Reporter to the New York Herald ships as ordinary Seaman
Esquimau Joe ships as Interpreter
Several Seamen belonging to the Ice-floe Company ship in the Tigress
Extra Equipments
Chapter XXIX	350	(6)
The Tigress, Commander James A. Greer, sets sail
Enthusiasm at her Departure
Hans and Family as Passengers
``Knowledge is Power.''
Arrive at Tessuisak
Governor Jansen
Tigress proceeds North: Approach Northumberland island
Not the place of Separation
Make Littleton Island
Excitement on Board on hearing Human Voices
Encampment of the Polaris Survivors found
Commander Greer's Success
Esquimaux in Possession of the deserted House
Captain Tyson's Advice to seek the Whalers
Captain Tyson's Cruise in the Tigress	356	(12)
Captain Tyson's Journal on board the Tigress
``Too late.''
Fire training on board
Mal de mer
A tall Story
Angling for Porpoises with Pork
A nautical
Joke
Beware of the Tigress
Fog at Sea
Naive Comments on Icebergs
Tender Hearts among the Blue-jackets
Illusions
Aurora
Whistling to frighten the Bergs
Splendid Northern Lights
Heavy Gales
The Doctor's Clerk
Two old Whalers
We leave Night behind us
Poor Hans's Affliction
Family returned to Greenland
The Tigress pitching and rolling
The Fog-blanket
Cheese for Bait
An Iceberg turns a Somersault
A beautiful Display
A slight Accident
Meet the Steam-launch
Official Correspondence with Commander Greer
Ashore at Littleton Island and Life-boat Cove
Sounding for the foundered Polaris
Abundance of Food abandoned by the Polaris Survivors
Chapter XXXI	368	(8)
Homeward-bound
Fire! Fire
An honored Custom
Contrast of the Sailor's Life
A Set-off to the Midnight Sun
Heavy Gale
All want to shoot a Bear
Executive Officer White the ``killing'' Man
A narrow Escape
Thoughts of Home
At Upernavik for Repairs
The Danish and half breed Girls
Dress
Dancing
A startling Record
At Goodhavn Harbor
Captain .Tyson visits the Juniata
Continued bad Weather
Sight Cape Mercy
The Sea sweeps the Galley
The Cook disgusted
Effects of the Gale in the Wardroom
``At home'' in Niountelik Harbor, Cumberland Gulf
Chapter XXXII	376	(7)
A Change for the better
Repairing Damages
Company in the Gulf
Looking for Scotch Whalers
The Natives bring Deer-meat to the Ship
Arctic Birds flying South
Captain Hall's old Proteges
Demoralization of the Natives of the west Coast
Collecting ``Specimens.''
Bad Case of ``Stone Fever.''
``Time and Tide wait for no Man.''
Billy's Curiosities
Captain Tyson meets his late Rescuer, Captain Bartlett
Mica Speculation
Short of Coal
How we lost our Dinner
A saltatory Dining-table
Sight a Scotch Whaler
Arrival at Ivgitut, South Greenland
Meet the Fox, of Arctic Fame
Kryolite, Coal, Fish, and another Gale
Friend Schnider, the fat Dane
Canaries, Pigeons, etc., domesticated here
The Crew overworked
A Hurricane
Antics of the Furniture
Force of Sea-waves
Chapter XXXIII	383	(5)
The Gale abates
Consultation as to Course
Useless Cruising
Start for Home
More bad Weather
Land-birds blown out to Sea
Reminiscences of the Ice-floe Drift
A narrow Escape
A black Fog
Interviewing a Hawk at the Masthead
Arrive at St. Johns
News of the Polaris Party
Return to Brooklyn
What the Tigress accomplished: Lessons in Arctic Navigation
Bravery of the
Officers
A stormy but agreeable Cruise
Theory of North Polar Currents	388	(5)
The Hydrography of Smith Sound
The Currents forbid the Theory of an ``Open Polar Sea.''
Movements of the Ice
A northern Archipelago a reasonable Supposition
Velocity of Current along the east and west Coasts
No Current in the Middle
Experience of the Polaris
Absence of large Bergs in Smith Sound
Open nearly all Winter
Radiant Heat preserved by Cloud Strata: Deflection of the Current at Cape York
Robeson Channel described
Land seen from the Mast-head both east and west
Coast-line beyond Cape Union
Two Headlands to the east-north-east of Repulse Harbor
Absence of Snow on Coast of North Greenland above Humboldt Glacier
Elevated Plateaus in the Interior
The Land around Polaris Bay
Clam-shells at an Elevation of two thousand Feet
Variegated but odorless Flora
Animal Life
Insects
Skeletons of Muskcattle
Chapter XXXV	393	(5)
How to reach the North Pole
Smith Sound the true Gate-way
This course offers the Alternative of Land Travel
Plenty of Game in Summer
April and May the Months for Sledging
Proper Model of Vessel's Hull
Twenty-five Men enough
A Tender necessary
A Depot at Port Foulke with a detail of Men Ice at Rensselaer Harbor
Avoid Pack-ice in Smith Sound
Go direct for west Coast
Form Caches at intervals of fifty Miles
Deposit Reserve Boats
Style of Traveling-sledge
Native preferred
Selecting Dogs
Keep them well fed
Keep Stores on Deck
Winter as far north as the Ship can get
How to get out of a Trap
Provision a Floe, and trust to the Current
Take your Boats along-Replenish at Caches
Two Months from a high Latitude sufficient
It will yet be done
The Fate of the Polaris	398	(4)
The Polaris Survivors
Ship driven to the North-east
Her Position on the Night of October 15
Darkness and Confusion
Anchors and Boats gone
The Leak gains
Steam up
Roll-call on Board
Lookout for the Floe Party
Storm abated
Inspection of Stores
The Polaris fast to grounded Hummocks
``Let her fill!''
Life-boat Cove
The Polaris left a Legacy to an Esquimau Chief
She founders in his Sight
The Fortunes of the Polaris Survivors	402	(8)
Life on Shore
A House built
Visitors
Womanly Assistance
Scientific Observations
Amusements
Old Myoney
Hunting
Boat built
Starting for Home
A Summer-trip
Sight a Vessel
Rescue by Captain Allen, of the Ravenscraig. Romance of the Polaris Expedition
Safe Arrival of all the Survivors at New York
Consul Molloy
Scientific Notes	410	(13)
The Pacific Tidal Wave
Meteorological and Magnetic Records
Glaciers
Fauna
Entomology
Flora
Appendix	423	(58)
Index	481