WE SAIL FOR BEAR ISLAND, AND SPITZBERGEN-CHERIE ISLAND -BARENTZ-SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY-PARRY'S ATTEMPT TO REACH THE NORTH POLE-AGAIN AMONGST THE ICE-ICEBLINK -FIRST SIGHT OF SPITZBERGEN-WILSON-DECAY OF OUR HOPES -CONSTANT STRUGGLE WITH THE ICE-WE REACH THE 80° N. LAT. A FREER SEA-WE LAND IN SPITZBERGEN-ENGLISH BAY -LADY EDITH'S GLACIER-A MIDNIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NO REINDEER TO BE SEEN-ET EGO IN ARCTIS-WINTER IN SPITZ- BERGEN-PTARMIGAN-THE BEAR-SAGA-THE "FOAM MONU- THRONDHJEM-HARALD HAARFAGER-KING HACON'S LAST BATTLE -OLAF TRYGGVESSON-THE "LONG SERPENT". -SAINT OLAVE -THORMOD THE SCALD-THE JARL OF LADE-THE CATHEDRAL ALMANNA-GJA-THINGVALLA-THE OXERAA Ground Plan of Thingvalla THINGVALLA 66 67 68 68 71 "THE GIRLS AT HOME HAVE GOT HOLD OF THE TOW-ROPE 215 It is a strange thing, that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen, but sky and sea, men should make Diaries; but in land-travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part, they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation."-BACON. TO THE FIGURE-HEAD OF “THE FOAM." I. CALM sculptured image of as sweet a face II. Our progress was your triumph duly hailed By ocean's inmates; herald dolphins played Before our stem, tall ships that sunward sailed With stately curtseys due obeisance paid. III. Fair Fortune's fairer harbinger! you smoothed Of roystering waves-as once Athene soothed IV. The scowling tempest rose in vain to clutch His forked bolts; you smiled,—they harmless turned To sheets of splendour at his palsied touch, And all their anger perished ere it burned. |