Arctic Summer—Flowers and Butterflies—Feathered Visitors—A Strange Shot—Deceptive Game Tracks—The Land Ransacked—No Vestige of Man—Nature’s Records—The Raised Beaches—The Break-up—Farewell to Floeberg Beach—Running the Gauntlet—Robeson Channel Ice-drift—A “Nip”—Walled in by Floebergs—Escape—Re-union with the “Discovery,” 69 CHAPTER XI. Serious News—The North Greenland Detachments—The Missing Sledge-crews—Drifting with the Polar Pack—A Forced March of Thirty-two Hours—“Chatel’s Grotto” and the “Coal Mine”—Climate Past and Present—The Return Southward—A Pool in Kennedy Channel—Race against Winter—New Ice—Out Fires—The North Water at Last—The “Pandora’s” Depôt—News from Home—Conclusion, 75 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. CHROMOGRAPHS. PAGE 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. PAGE Sanderson’s Hope, 12 Eskimo Boy with Fish, 14 Twin Glacier Valley, 18 Our White Cat “Pops,” 19 Walrus, 20 Eskimo Tent-Circles, 22