Excerpt from Hunters and Hunting, in the Arctic I considered an account of my first two expeditions to the Arctic regions worthy of publication, because each was interesting in its own way. Exceptionally favourable conditions attended the first, permitting us to cross the Greenland ice-belt at 76 Degrees latitude, a region up to that time deemed impassable, and to attain, in the the French Islands, never before reached even with sledges. 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.