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FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS TO THE POLAR CIRCLE. The Halbrane , singularly favoured by the weather, sighted the New South Orkneys group in six days after she had sailed from the Sandwich Islands. This …
BETWEEN THE POLAR CIRCLE AND THE ICE WALL. Since the Halbrane has passed beyond the imaginary curve drawn at twenty-three and a half degrees from the Pole, it seems as though she had entered a new r…
ALONG THE FRONT OF THE ICEBERGS. Although the seas beyond the Polar Circle were wildly tumultuous, it is but just to acknowledge that our navigation had been accomplished so far under exceptional con…
A VOICE IN A DREAM. Entirely free from ice? No. It would have been premature to affirm this as a fact. A few icebergs were visible in the distance, while some drifts and packs were still going east. …
BENNET ISLET. The Halbrane was then within sight of Bennet Islet! The crew urgently needed rest, so the disembarkation was deferred until the following day, and I went back to my cabin. The night pa…
TSALAL ISLAND. The night passed without alarm. No boat had put off from the island, nor had a native shown himself upon the beach. The Halbrane , then, had not been observed on her arrival; this was …
AND PYM? “And Pym—poor Pym?” I turned round quickly. Hunt had spoken. This strange person was standing motionless at a little distance, gazing fixedly at the horizon. It was so unusual to hear Hunt’s…
A REVELATION. The following day, the 29th of December, at six in the morning, the schooner set sail with a north-east wind, and this time her course was due south. The two succeeding days passed whol…
LAND? “Land” is the only word to be found at the beginning of the nineteenth chapter of Edgar Poe’s book. I thought it would be a good idea—placing after it a note of interrogation—to put it as a hea…
“UNMERCIFUL DISASTER” In the morning, after breakfast, it was decided that the men should begin to dig a sloping bed which would allow the Halbrane to slide to the foot of the iceberg. Would that He…
