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CAPTAIN HATTERAS.
JULES VERNE.
[Frontispiece: "The brig was tossed about like a child's toy."--Page134.]
THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HATTERAS.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF JULES VERNE.
_WITH TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY RIOU_.
BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.1876.
COPYRIGHT, 1874.BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE.
CONTENTS.
PART I.THE ENGLISH AT THE NORTH POLE.
CHAPTER PAGE I. THE FORWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
II. AN UNEXPECTED LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
III. DR. CLAWBONNY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
IV. THE DOG-CAPTAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
V. AT SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
VI. THE GREAT POLAR CURRENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
VII. THE ENTRANCE OF DAVIS STRAIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
VIII. THE TALK OF THE CREW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
IX. ANOTHER LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
X. DANGEROUS SAILING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
XI. THE DEVIL'S THUMB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
XII. CAPTAIN HATTERAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
XIII. THE CAPTAIN'S PLANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
XIV. THE EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN . . . . . . . . . . 102
XV. THE FORWARD DRIVEN SOUTHWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
XVI. THE MAGNETIC POLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
XVII. THE FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
XVIII. THE WAY NORTHWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
XIX. A WHALE IN SIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
XX. BEECHEY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
XXI. THE DEATH OF BELLOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
XXII. THE FIRST SIGNS OF MUTINY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
XXIII. ATTACKED BY THE ICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
XXIV. PREPARATIONS FOR WINTERING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
XXV. ONE OF JAMES ROSS'S FOXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
XXVI. THE LAST PIECE OF COAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
XXVII. THE GREAT COLD AT CHRISTMAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
XXVIII. PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
XXIX. ACROSS THE ICE-FIELDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
XXX. THE CAIRN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
XXXI. THE DEATH OF SIMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
XXXII. THE RETURN TO THE FORWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
PART II.THE DESERT OF ICE.
I. THE DOCTOR'S INVENTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
II. ALTAMONT'S FIRST WORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
III. SEVENTEEN DAYS OF LAND JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
IV. THE LAST CHARGE OF POWDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
V. THE SEAL AND THE BEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
VI. THE PORPOISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
VII. A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHARTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
VIII. EXCURSION TO THE NORTH OF VICTORIA BAY . . . . . . . . . 291
IX. COLD AND HEAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
X. THE PLEASURES OF WINTER-QUARTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
XI. DISQUIETING TRACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
XII. THE ICE PRISON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
XIII. THE MINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
XIV. THE POLAR SPRING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
XV. THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
XVI. NORTHERN ARCADIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
XVII. ALTAMONT'S REVENGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
XVIII. THE LAST PREPARATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
XIX. THE JOURNEY NORTHWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
XX. FOOTPRINTS ON THE SNOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
XXI. THE OPEN SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
XXII. THE APPROACH TO THE POLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
XXIII. THE ENGLISH FLAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
XXIV. POLAR COSMOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
XXV. MOUNT HATTERAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
XXVI. RETURN TO THE SOUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
XXVII. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437