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AMID THE MISTS. So this was the sum of all our efforts, trials and disappointments! Not to speak of the destruction of the Halbrane , the expedition had already cost nine lives. From thirty-two men w…
IN CAMP. A little after noon, the iceberg was within a mile of the land. After their dinner, the crew climbed up to the topmost block, on which Dirk Peters was stationed. On our approach the half-bre…
FOUND AT LAST The question of our wintering on the land whereon we had been thrown was settled for us. But, after all, the situation was not changed for those among the nine (now only remaining of th…
ELEVEN YEARS IN A FEW PAGES. The heading of the following chapter indicates that the adventures of William Guy and his companions after destruction of the English schooner, and the details of their h…
“WE WERE THE FIRST.” Two days later not one of the survivors from the two schooners, the Jane and the Halbrane , remained upon any coast of the Antarctic region. On the 21st of February, at six o’cl…
A LITTLE REMNANT. That same day, in the afternoon, the Paracuta departed from the coast of the Land of the Sphinx, which had lain to the west of us since the 21st of February. By the death of Dirk P…
