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Chapter XVIII: Return to Bremerhaven. By Captain Koldewey 565

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Conclusion. By Captain Koldewey 574

Appendix 581

DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Killer Dolphins 43

Blocks of Ice with Seals 80

Cape Broer Ruys 82

Cape James 83

The Flower-Basket 86

The Devil’s Thumb 95

The Brandenburg Gate 96

Hunting the Polar Bear 97

Polar Bear as a Watch-dog 98

Ice-formations 99

Skating on “Sinai” 100

Snow-Sphinx 119

Iceberg with Refraction, by Capo Löwenörn 139

Iceberg 146

Hunting the Polar Bear 147

The boat Bismarck 149

Iceberg 151

The Look-out 154

Sketch of Hansa Haven 165

Group of Esquimaux 177

Ruins of Erick Rauda’s House 235

Ice-drift Formations 268

First Sight of Land 272

Tent for Sledge-journeying 313

Arctic Fox at a trap 352

Tent-quarters 360

Young Walrus 369

Surprised by a Bear 430

Depôt on Kuhn Island 460

Hühnerberg Glacier 489

The Kronenberg 490

Block of Basalt 497

Fossil from Kuhn Island 504

Ruined Esquimaux Huts, &c. 508

Longitudinal section of Esquimaux Hut 509

Portions of Esquimaux Implements 517

Ruined Huts on Sabine Island 526

Esquimaux Box 542

Regenerated Glacier 553

End of a Glacier 555

Lower end of the Glaciers 557

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The Germania 14

The Hansa 16

Warping through the Ice 86

Ice formations 102

The Liverpool coast 105

The Hansa in distress 108

Wreck of the Hansa 112

Ground-plan of the “Hansa” house 114

The Hansa House on the Floe 115

Iceberg 132

Bivouac in boats 133

Dragging the boats to Illuidlek Island 155

Coast to the South of Illuidlek 157

The Boats under sail 164

Boat-Journeys with Canoes 198

Lichtenau 207

In the Pack 270

The Germania in the Ice 331

The Germania on Sabine Island 336

Iceberg near Cape Borlase Warren 356

On Deck 372

Deep-snow Travelling 452

Death of the Musk Ox 456

Esquimaux Implements 516

Do. do. _ib._

The Germania on the South Coast of Shannon 538

Mountain Peak behind the Glaciers, &c. 554

Glacier of Payer’s Peak 560

STEEL ENGRAVINGS.

Karl Koldewey, Commander of the Expedition, Captain of the
Germania 11

Paul Friedrich August Hegemann, Captain of the Hansa 35

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS.

Arrival of Boats at Friedrichsthal _Frontispiece_

Queen Augusta Valley 306

Tirol Fjord 363

The Devil’s Castle 552

MAPS.

(TO BE PLACED AT THE END.)

Chart of the Northern Portion of East Greenland surveyed on the
Sledge-Journey, from 24th March to 27th April, 1870.

Chart of the Voyage and Discoveries of the Second German Arctic
Expedition, with the aid of previous Charts.

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