Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal;
Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51

This edition features
• illustrations
• linked Footnotes

PREFACE
I fear with the many of my cloth, my crime in writing a book will be an unpardonable one; the more so, that I cannot conscientiously declare, that it has been at the urgent desire of my friends, &c., that I have thus made my début.

My motive is twofold: to tell of the doings of a screw ste...