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Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6

Chapter 3: List of Illustrations.
By Edward L. Moss
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The narrative recounts an 1875–76 naval Arctic expedition that sails into pack ice, explores Greenland’s coasts and channels, and reaches latitudes farther north than previously attained by ship. It combines day-to-day shipboard life, the establishment of winter quarters, sledging journeys across floes, natural-history observations of plants, birds, mammals, and glacial landscapes, and encounters with local Arctic inhabitants and their material traces. Practical details include hunting, dog teams, depôts, and the effects of extreme cold on equipment and human bodies, while numerous sketches and chromolithographs accompany descriptive chapters on ice phenomena, geographical discoveries, and the hardships and routines of polar exploration.

CHROMOGRAPHS.

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I. Godhavn Harbour, Disco Island, July 10, 1875, 13
II. Foulke Fiord and the Inland Ice of Greenland, July 28, 1875, 17
III. Musk Ox Hunt, Discovery Harbour, Midnight, August 25, 1875, 25
IV. Floeberg Beach and the Polar Sea, Looking North from the Crest of Cape Rawson, July, 1876, 28
V. Winter Quarters Outside, from the Floes Astern of H.M.S. “Alert,” December, 1876, 37
VI. The Deck: Morning Inspection and Prayers, 40
VII. Winter Quarters Inside H.M.S. “Alert”—The Wardroom, 43
VIII. Lunar Haloes, 44
IX. The Dawn of 1876. H.M.S. “Alert” in Winter Quarters, 50
X. The “Alert” in Winter Quarters, from Amongst the Barrier Bergs, March, 1876, 50
XI. Winter Quarters, from amongst the Floebergs, Looking South, March, 1876, 56
XII. A Floeberg, Simmon’s Island, April, 1876, 59
XIII. On the Northern March, April 8, 1876, 60
XIV. The Most Northern Grave, June, 1876, 65
XV. Back from the Farthest North, 68
XVI. The Last of the Paleocrystic Floe, Kane’s Open Polar Sea, Cape Constitution, Franklin and Crozier Islands in the Distance, August 20, 1876, 80

SKETCHES.

Sanderson’s Hope, 12
Eskimo Boy with Fish, 14
Twin Glacier Valley, 18
Our White Cat “Pops,” 19
Walrus, 20
Eskimo Tent-Circles, 22
Cape Hawkes, 23
Cairns on Washington Irving Island, 24
View from the Top of Hannah Island, 25
Head of Musk Ox, 26
Dragged at the Heels of a Dog-team, 31
A Ravine in the Stratified Ice, 31
Inside the Unifiler House, 36
Building Snow Houses, 38
Effect of Extreme Cold on a Candle, 39
Return from a Winter Walk, 42
Examining Thermometer: Minus 73°.4, 47
Camp of Sledge Party, 56
The Day’s March Done, 58
Crevasse near Cape Joseph Henry, 60
Mirage, 7th April, 1875, 61
Petersen’s Grave, 64
The North Coast of Greenland, 68
Running the Gauntlet, 73
Eskimo Bird-Shelter, 74
Chatel’s Grotto, 80
Allman Bay,, 82
Device on Delf-ware of the Expedition, 83

SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA.