An Arctic Witch 307 We go through an Iceberg to call on Philip 310 Philip, the Hunter, and his Sons 312 The Raven 317 Hans and his Family 322 The Great Auk 337 Iceberg in Jacobshavn Fiord 346 “Out upon time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before! Out upon time! who forever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve O’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be; What we have seen our sons shall see— Remnants of things that have passed away, Fragments of stone, reared by creatures of clay.” Byron’s _Siege of Corinth_. THE LAND OF DESOLATION. _PART THE FIRST._ RUINS. CHAPTER I. ICE AND BREAKERS. On a gloomy night in the month of July, 1585, the ship _Sunshine_, of fifty tons, “fitted out,” as the old chronicles inform us, “by divers opulent merchants of London, for the discovery of a north-west passage, came, in a thick and heavy mist, to a place where there was a mighty roaring as of waves dashing on a rocky shore.” The captain of this ship was brave old John Davis, who, when he had discovered his perilous situation, put off in a boat, and thereby discovered that his ship was “embayed in fields and hills of ice, the crashing together of which made the fearful sounds that he had heard.” The ship drifted helplessly through the night, and when the morning dawned, “the people saw the tops of mountains white with snow, and of a sugar-loaf shape, standing above the clouds; while at their base the land was deformed and rocky, and the shore was everywhere beset with ice, which made such irksome noise that the land was called ‘The Land of Desolation.’”