CONTENTS.


PART THE FIRST.
RUINS.
PAGE
Ice and Breakers
17
Free from Danger
20
A hopeful Town in a hopeless Place
26
Eric the Red
39
“The Arctic Six”
45
Up the Fiord in an Oomiak
51
The Ruins of Ericsfiord
62
The Northmen in Greenland
71
The Northmen in America
77
The Last Man
82
A Disconsolate Lover
92
The Church at Julianashaab
98
A Greenland Parliament
101
A Greenland Ball
112

PART THE SECOND.
PALACES OF NATURE.
Ice and Snow
125
Glaciers and Icebergs
129
The Solitary Hut of Peter Motzfeldt
137
The Glacier
146
Crossing the Glacier
153
Speculations
166
Measurements of Glaciers
172
The Birth of an Iceberg
175
A Narrow Escape
179
Icebergs Critically Examined
186
Man versus Mosquitoes
197
A Picnic on the Glacier
201
Bound for the Arctic Circle
206

PART THE THIRD.
UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN.
Across the Arctic Circle
215
Beyond Civilization
240
Ice-Navigation
253
Hunting by Steam
263
Among the Ice-fields of Melville Bay
284
The Last White Man
294
The Fiord of Aukpadlartok
309
Upernavik
318
Disco Island
328
Jacobshavn
339
A Week at Godhavn
348