Letters From High Latitudes by The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES Being some account of a voyage in 1856 of the schooner yacht “Foam” to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen. By the Marquess of Dufferin Sometime Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada and afterwards Viceroy of India. LETTER I. PROTESILAUS STUMBLES ON THE THRESHOLD Glasgow, Monday, June 2, 1856. Our start has