Arctic Adventures

Kingston, William Henry Giles · 1880

________________________________________________________________________ ARCTIC ADVENTURES, BY WHG KINGSTON. I had often dreamed of icebergs and Polar bears, whales and rorquals, of walruses and seals, of Esquimaux, and Laplanders and kayaks, of the Aurora Borealis and the midnight sun, and numerous other wonders of the arctic regions, and here was I on board the stout ship the _Hardy Norseman_, of and from Dundee, Captain Hudson, Master, actually on my way to behold them, to engage in the adventures, and perchance to endure the perils and hardships which voyagers in those northern seas must be prepared to encounter.…

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