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Subject(s)

• World history [Browse]
• Arctic regions [Browse]
• Greely Relief Expedition (1884) [Browse]

Related name

• Philips, M. (Melville) [Browse]

Notes

• Originally published: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885 [1884].
• Includes index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Intro
• EDITOR'S PREFACE.
• CONTENTS.
• IN THE LENA DELTA.
• CHAPTER I.
• OFF FOR THE POLE.
• The Jeannette Expedition.
• Our Departure.
• Unalaska.
• St. Michael's.
• The Tchuchees.
• Nordenskjöld.
• Frozen in.
• Herald Island.
• CHAPTER II.
• DRIFTING.
• Shipboard Economy.
• A Frozen Wave.
• Lead-Poisoning.
• My Visit to Henrietta Island.
• CHAPTER III.
• CAST UPON THE ICE.
• Life in the Upper Cabin.
• Our Situation.
• The Jeannette goes down.
• Camping.
• Marching.
• CHAPTER IV.
• RETREATING OVER THE PACK.
• Game.
• Retrogression.
• Beans.
• Progress at last.
• Bennett Island.
• In the Boats.
• Our Dogs.
• Threading the Leads.
• CHAPTER V.
• VOYAGE OF THE WHALE-BOAT.
• Weathering the Gale.
• Our Sea-Anchor.
• Siberia in Sight.
• CHAPTER VI.
• ON THE LENA DELTA.
• Sailing up Stream.
• The Hut.
• Our Frozen Limbs.
• Meeting with the Natives.
• Learning their Language.
• CHAPTER VII.
• UP THE LENA.
• My Unsuccessful Effort "to go it alone."
• Vasilli Kool Gar.
• My Duck Diplomacy.
• Fears of Scurvy.
• Arii, the Deserted Village.
• Spiridon,the Ugly Starosti.
• Siberian Ice-Cellars.
• Jamaveloch.
• CHAPTER VIII.
• AT JAMAVELOCH.
• Nicolai Chagra.
• An Impressive Pantomime.
• The "Red Fiend."
• Over-ripe but Green Geese.
• Devotions.
• A Balogan described.
• CHAPTER IX.
• SIBERIAN LIFE.
• Balked again.
• The "Balogan Americanski."
• A Row with the Starosti.
• Catching Fish.
• Deer and Geese Hunting.
• CHAPTER X.
• KUSMATO OUR RESCUE.
• Incidents in our Balogan.
• Kusma.
• Faithless Spiridon.
• CHAPTER XI.
• A STEP FORWARD.
• Kusma's Coming.
• Nindemann and Noros.
• I start for Belun.
• Siberian Dog-Sleds.
• A Storm.
• Ku Mark Surt.
• CHAPTER XII.
• AT BELUN.
• I am Admired.
• Deer-Sleds.
• Buruloch.
• Native Gossips.
• Meeting with Nindemann and Noros.
• Their Piteous Story.
• The Malinki Pope.
• An Unexpected Visit from Bartlett.
• Back to Buruloch.
• CHAPTER XIII.
• SEARCHING FOR DELONG.
• Bieshoff.
• Poor Jack Cole.
• I start in quest of De Long.
• At Ku Mark Surt again.
• How to eat Raw Fish.
• The Maiden with the Lively Tresses.
• Bulcour.
• "The Place of the Three Crosses."
• Sleeping in the Snow.
• Mat Vay.
• A Clue.
• CHAPTER XIV.
• LOSING THE TRAIL.
• Treachery.
• I make a Cannibalistic Threat.
• Cass Carta.
• A Late Supper of Deer Hoofs and Horns.
• Benumbed.
• Another Night in the Snow.
• "Balogan Soak."
• North Belun.
• I dive into a Hut and "receive."
• Two Precious Bumagas.
• A Yakut Bride.
• Sleeping in Close Quarters.
• An Ignoble Economy.
• Definite Tidings.
• CHAPTER XV.
• A TRIP TO THE ARCTIC SHORE.
• Ballok.
• The "Boos Byral."
• The Cache.
• I am Hoodwinked again.
• Topographical Revelations.
• Myacks.
• Our Despised "Mock" and "Tas."
• A Coveted Demijohn.
• Phadee Achin.
• CHAPTER XVI.
• STRUGGLING W I T H BOREAS.
• Daring the Storm.
• The Suffering of the Dogs.
• At Macha.
• "Ballook soak!"
• Foot-Prints.
• Straying.
• Sister Ganak.
• Odorous Offal for Supper.
• Remorseless Weather.
• Qu Vina.
• More Offal.
• Vos Crusina.
• A Bone Cache.
• River Bergs.
• Seeking Refuge in the Snow.
• Breakfasting on Putrid Deer Bones.
• CHAPTER XVII.
• END OF MY FIRST SEARCH.
• Forcing the Journey.
• "Oo,oo."
• Rough Repairing.
• "Paddy" despairs.
• But quickly revives.
• And performs Wonders.
• My Deer Train.
• On to Belun.
• Tedious Progress.
• Ajaket.
• Belun.
• Epatchieff.
• CHAPTER XVIII.
• FROM BELUN TO VERKERANSK.
• My Record of the Journey.
• Minus 45 º Réaumur.
• A Russian's Views of America and her Institutions.
• Kasharofski.
• M.Leon.
• My Letter of Instructions.
• A Visit to the Hut of the Exiles.
• Leon's Case.
• Life at Verkeransk.
• Facts about the Political Exiles.
• CHAPTER XIX.
• FROM VERKERANSK TO YAKUTSK.
• Penavitch.
• Doctor Buali.
• His Sad Story.
• Those Terrible Nihilists.
• "A Dead Nihilist and a Dead Czar."
• Happy Lovers.
• I take a Remarkable Russian Bath, and a Very Bad Cold.
• Off to Yakutsk.
• Siberian Scenery.
• The Horse and his Troubles.
• A Queer Predicament.
• Kangerack.
• Crossing the Divide.
• A Dangerous Descent.
• A Tunguse Home.
• Exasperating Yamshicks.
• A Sickening Sight.
• Native Grist-Mills.
• A Learned Exile.
• The Scaups.
• CHAPTER XX.
• AT YAKUTSK.
• General Tschernaieff.
• How He received me.
• Mr. Danenhower and Party set out for America.
• Instructions from the Department.
• Praesnik.
• Preparations for my Second Search.
• Yakutsk Society.
• New Year's Eve.
• Nova Goat.
• The Bishop receives.
• Masquerading.
• Bulky Money.
• CHAPTER XXI.
• NORTH AGAIN.
• Off for Verkeransk.
• A Climatic Surprise.
• The Journey to Belun.
• Arrangements for the Search.
• A Rough Ride to Jamaveloch.
• Futile Attempts to dispatch Fish.
• A "Corner" in Fish.
• Indignant Coperts.
• The Gamblers of the Lena Delta.
• Paying off Old Scores.
• Humbled Nicolai and Repentant Spiridon.
• CHAPTER XXII.
• STORM-BOUND.
• Arctic Weather.
• Pedestrian Difficulties.
• Lost in the Village.
• Outstripping the Typhoon.
• Continuance of the Same Old Gale.
• A Yakut Solution of a Financial Problem.
• Off for Arii.
• Chul-Boy-Hoy.
• Golivar Compass.
• Turkanach.
• An Afflicted Family.
• Ordono.
• At Cass Carta.
• Our Palatial Quarters.
• In Distress.
• Timely Relief.
• Together at Last.
• The Art of Broiling Steaks.
• A Reminiscence.
• A Twenty-Pound Drink.
• Yakut and Tchuchee Filthiness.
• CHAPTER XXIII.
• FINDING THE BODIES.
• Getting Affairs in Shape.
• My Map of the Delta.
• Searching for Ericksen's Hut.
• Revelations.
• Contending with the Storm.
• The Yakut Fashion of Lighting Fires.
• A Miserable Night.
• Which Cape?
• The Myack.
• Found.
• De Long's Ice-Journal and its Sad Entries.
• Positions of the Bodies.
• De Long's Pistol.
• A False Report.
• Dr. Ambler.
• Appearance of the Dead.
• "Dwee Pomree."
• CHAPTER XXIV.
• THE BURIAL.
• Bringing in the Dead.
• Writing under Difficulties.
• Selecting a Burial Ground.
• "Around the Corner."
• The Finding of Lee and Kaack.
• Monument Hill.
• Constructing the Coffin and Cross.
• Nindemann discovers Ericksen's Hut.
• Erecting the Tomb-Cairn.
• The Simple Obsequies.
• A Superstitious Soldatski.
• A Yakut Bumaga.
• CHAPTER XXV.
• SEARCHING FOR CHIPP.
• Mr.Gilder.
• Starting the Records off.
• Kigolak.
• Sava.
• Sabas Kokoo.
• Turak.
• Jaolak.
• The "Little Foxes."
• Chanker.
• The Alanek Country and Natives.
• The Village of Alanek.
• The Fate of Pronchishcheff.
• A Trip to the Graves of Pronchishcheff's Party.
• A Coastwise Search.
• Yakut Divorce Laws.
• Our Wretched Dogs.
• Koobalak.
• At Cass Carta again.
• Nindemann's and Bartlett's Searches.
• Journeying back to Jamaveloch.
• Native Coffins and Mode of Burial.
• CHAPTER XXVI.
• MY FINAL SEARCH TO THE JANA RIVER.
• The Rodgers.
• Mr.Gilder's Culpable Conduct.
• Harber and Schuetze.
• Noros and Jackson.
• Mr.Larsen.
• Jackson's Vandalism.
• Eating Wood.
• Shumomea.
• Oceansk.
• Mammoth Ivory.
• The Exiles once more.
• A Letter from Berry.
• On Horseback to Yakutsk.
• Our Miserable Equipment and Ride to Kangerack.
• The Rapid Thaw.
• "Jacksoned."
• The Experience of Bubokoff.
• Kolinkin and Gilder.
• Siberian Cattle.
• CHAPTER XXVII.
• THROUGH SIBERIA.
• Meeting with Berry and Hunt.
• In the Valley of the Aldan.
• "Dismal John."
• Traveling through the Flooded District.
• A Tunguse Family en route.
• Crossing the Aldan.
• A Picturesque Scene.
• Arrival at Yakutsk.
• On board the Pioneer.
• Mosquitoes.
• Castellated Cliffs.
• Passing the Harber Party.
• Copert Barges.
• The Voyage to Karinsk.
• On the Constantine and the Tow-Boats.
• In the Tarantass.
• "Ivan," the ictitious Friend.
• Irkutsk.
• The Story of my Watch.
• CHAPTER XXVIII.
• HOMEWARD BOUND.
• Governor Anutchin.
• On to Tomsk.
• A Current Ferry-Boat.
• Agricultural Settlements.
• Rascally Stancia-Keepers and Yamshicks.
• Their Methods.
• Exiles in Droves.
• At Tomsk.
• The "Hotel Million."
• Attentive Mr.Hildenberger.
• On the River Obi.
• Tobolsk.
• Tuamen.
• Floating Jails.
• Ekaterinborg.
• Perm.
• Nijni Novgorod and the Great Bazaar.
• Moscow.
• St. Petersburg.
• Our Reception.
• A Day at Peterhof.
• Home.
• THE GREELY RELIEF EXPEDITION.
• NORTHWARD ONCE MORE.
• Failure of the Neptune, Proteus, and Yantic to Relieve Greely.
• My Proposal
• The Plan and Fitting Out of the Expedition
• St. John 's
• Disco Island
• RACING IN THE ARCTIC WATERS.
• Upernavik
• The Whalers
• Captain Walker's Story
• The Bear Aground
• Racing
• Nipped
• The Duck Islands
• Off Cape York
• Conical Rock
• THE RESCUE.
• Saunders Island
• Cape Parry
• Littleton Island
• Finding the Records
• The Greely Party
• Scenes at Camp Clay
• Preserving the Dead
• THE RETURN VOYAGE.
• Reminiscences
• Foulke Fiord
• The Inconstant Esquimaux
• The Burial of Frederic Christiansen
• St.John's
• Portsmouth
• New York
• A PROPOSED METHOD OF REACHING THE NORTH POLE.
• APPENDIX.

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ISBN

1-58218-377-5

OCLC

• 70731485
• 922990921

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