Excerpt from Adventures in the Ice: A Comprehensive Summary of Arctic Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure; Including Experiences of Captain Penny, the Veteran Whaler, Now First Published Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure are subjects always interesting to those who can appreciate What is heroic and self denying in their fellow-men. Only ignoble natures can remain unmoved by acts of noble enterprise and generous daring. Nowhere have these qualities been more conspicuous than amid the ih clemency of the Arctic Regions. The search for a North-west Passage to the Indies led our seamen to penetrate into the frozen deep, and exposed them to the horrors of utter desolation, cruel privation, and sometimes lingering death. The sufi'erings endured have called forth all the best feelings of the heart, and have exercised the noble power of endurance. The design of this book is to relate some of the most interesting narratives of Adventure in the Ice. The stories of the Norsemen and of explorers before the time of John Cabot are omitted, as the particulars are less authentic than are those subsequent to that period. Throughout the work there is a chronological sequence observed, though this is not strictly main tained in some of the later voyages, When two or three Arctic expeditions were being conducted at the same time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.