SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA

A NARRATIVE OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION OF 1875-6

BY DR. EDWARD L. MOSS, H.M.S. “Alert”

ILLUSTRATED BY Sixteen Chromo-Lithographs and numerous Engravings From Drawings made on the spot by the Author

London: MARCUS WARD & CO., 67 & 68, CHANDOS STREET, STRAND And ROYAL ULSTER WORKS, BELFAST 1878

Printed by MARCUS WARD & CO., Royal Ulster Works, Belfast.

PREFACE.

I PLACE these Sketches in the hands of my Publishers, believing that careful chromo-lithographic fac-similes of them will convey a fuller and perhaps more novel idea of Arctic scenery than any rendering in black and white. As Sketches from Nature, they, for obvious reasons, illustrate rather the scenery of our Expedition than its leading events; the latter are the prerogative of the Historian, and do not come within the scope of a Sketch-book, in which the letterpress is subordinate, and intended merely to connect and describe the pictures. Whatever may be the artistic value of the Sketches—and they lay claim to none—they are at least perfectly faithful efforts to represent the face of Nature in a part of the world that very few can ever see for themselves.

EDWARD L. MOSS.

2nd February, 1877.