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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