CHAPTER XXIX.
The Main Party sent back.—Plunging into the Hummocks again.—Advantages
of Dogs.—Camp in an Ice-Cave.—Nursing the Dogs.—Snow-Blindness.—A
Chapter of Accidents.- Cape Hawks.—Cape
Napoleon.—Storm-stayed.—Grinnell Land looming up.—Discovering
a Sound.—Ravenous Disposition of Dogs.—A Cheerless
Supper.—Camping in the Open Air.—Prostration of Men
and Dogs.—Making the Land at last 322
CHAPTER XXX.
The Prospect Ahead.—To Cape Napoleon.—To Cape Frazer.—Traces
of Esquimaux.—Rotten Ice.—Kennedy Channel.—Mildness
of Temperature.—Appearance of Birds.—Geological Features
of Coast.—Vegetation.—Accident to Jensen 333
CHAPTER XXXI.
A New Start.—Speculations.—In a Fog.—Polar Scenery.—Stopped
by Rotten Ice.—Looking Ahead.—Conclusions.—The
Open Sea.—Climax of the Journey.—Returning South 343
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Open Polar Sea.—Width of the Polar Basin.—Boundaries of
the Polar Basin.—Polar Currents.—Polar Ice.—The Ice-Belt.—Arctic
Navigation and Discovery.—The Russian Sledge Explorations.—Wrangel's
Open Sea.—Parry's Boat Expedition.—Dr.
Kane's Discoveries.—Expansion of Smith Sound.—General Conclusions
drawn from my own Discoveries and those of my Predecessors 353
CHAPTER XXXIII.
On Board the Schooner.—Review of the Journey.—The Return
down Kennedy Channel.—A Severe March in a Snow-Storm.—Rotten
Ice.—Effects of a Gale.—Returning through the Hummocks.—The
Dogs breaking down.—Adrift on a Floe at Cairn
Point.—The Open Water compels us to take to the Land.—Reaching
the Schooner.—Projecting a Chart.—The New Sound.—My
Northern Discoveries 363
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Inspection of the Schooner.—Method of Repairing.—The Serious
Nature of the Injury.—The Schooner unfit for any further Ice-Encounters.—Examination
of my Resources.—Plans for the Future 376
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