Among the Esquimaux; or Adventures under the Arctic Circle

Among the Esquimaux; or Adventures under the Arctic Circle
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Ellis Edward Sylvester. Among the Esquimaux; or Adventures under the Arctic Circle

CHAPTER I. TWO PASSENGERS ON THE "NAUTILUS"

CHAPTER II. A COLOSSAL SOMERSAULT

CHAPTER III. AN ALARMING SITUATION

CHAPTER IV. ADRIFT

CHAPTER V. AN ICY COUCH

CHAPTER VI. MISSING

CHAPTER VII. A POINT OF LIGHT

CHAPTER VIII. HOPE DEFERRED

CHAPTER IX. A STARTLING OCCURRENCE

CHAPTER X. AN UGLY CUSTOMER

CHAPTER XI. LIVELY TIMES

CHAPTER XII. FRED'S EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER XIII. THE FOG

CHAPTER XIV. A COLLISION

CHAPTER XV. THE SOUND OF A VOICE

CHAPTER XVI. LAND HO!

CHAPTER XVII. DOCAK AND HIS HOME

CHAPTER XVIII. A NEW EXPEDITION

CHAPTER XIX. A WONDERFUL EXHIBITION

CHAPTER XX. THE HERD OF MUSK OXEN

CHAPTER XXI. CLOSE QUARTERS

CHAPTER XXII. FRED'S TURN

CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE CAVERN

CHAPTER XXIV. UNWELCOME CALLERS

CHAPTER XXV. THE COMING SHADOW

CHAPTER XXVI. WALLED IN

CHAPTER XXVII "COME ON!"

CHAPTER XXVIII. A HOPELESS TASK

CHAPTER XXIX. TEN MILES

CHAPTER XXX. THE LAST PAUSE

CHAPTER XXXI. ANOTHER SOUND

CHAPTER XXXII. THE WILD MEN OF GREENLAND

CHAPTER XXXIII. CONCLUSION

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The voyage of the "Nautilus" was uneventful until she was far to the northward in Baffin Bay. It was long after leaving St. John that our friends saw their first iceberg. They should have seen them before, as Captain McAlpine explained, for, as you well know, those mountains of ice often cross the path of the Atlantic steamers, and more than once have endangered our great ocean greyhounds. No doubt numbers of them were drifting southward, gradually dissolving as they neared the equator, but it so happened that the "Nautilus" steered clear of them until many degrees to the north.

The captain, who was scanning the icy ocean with his glass, apprised the boys that the longed-for curiosity was in sight at last. As he spoke, he pointed with his hand to the north-west, but though they followed the direction with their eyes, they were disappointed.

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While the little group stood forward talking of icebergs, they were gradually drawing near the couple that had first caught their attention. By this time a third had risen to sight, more to the westward, but it was much smaller than the other two, though more unique and beautiful. It looked for all the world like a grand cathedral, whose tapering spire towered fully two hundred feet in air. It was easy to imagine that some gigantic structure had been submerged by a flood, while the steeple still reared its head above the surrounding waters as though defying them to do their worst.

The other two bergs were much more enormous and of irregular contour. The imaginative spectator could fancy all kinds of resemblances, but the "cold fact" remained that they were simply mountains of ice, with no more symmetry of outline than a mass of rock blasted from a quarry.

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