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The professor had a theory that there was an open sea at the South Pole, and he wanted to prove it. He decided that the best way to get there was to go under the ocean in a submarine boat, and he and the boys built a very fine, craft, called the Porpoise, which was capable of being propelled under water at a great depth. The voyagers had rather a hard time of it.
We are so much accustomed to see a difference in structure between the embryo and the adult, that we are tempted to look at this difference as in some necessary manner contingent on growth. But there is no reason why, for instance, the wing of a bat, or the fin of a porpoise, should not have been sketched out with all their parts in proper proportion, as soon as any part became visible.
|Ships. |Entry. |Quality. |Discharge. |Y.|M.|W.|D.| |Duke |9 June, 1789 |Able Seaman|2 Dec., 1789 | |5 |2 |2 | |Polyphemus|10 Oct., 1794|Midshipman |7 May, 1797 |2 |7 |2 | | |Apollo |8 May, 1797 |Mate |27 Dec., 1797| |8 |1 |3 | |Blazer |2 Jan., 1798 |2nd Master | | | | | | | | | and Pilot|26 July, 1798| |7 |1 |3 | |Porpoise |7 Oct.,1798 |Mate |9 July, 1800 |1 |9 | | | | | | | |6 |1 |3 |1 |
He moved his machine shop to a lonely spot on the Maine coast, and there, with the help of the boys, Washington, Andy and two machinists constructed a submarine boat, called the Porpoise. In this the professor resolved to seek the south pole, he having a theory that it was surrounded by an open sea. After much hard work the Porpoise was made ready for the voyage.
"That will be seen," sneered Mr. Nichol. "Not by a damned blind scarlet-faced porpoise!" screamed Mary, apparently more in a passion than ever, and a burst of laughter came from the men. This was too much for Mr. Nichol. This coarse abuse stung him cruelly. "God's blood," he bellowed at the room; "take this vixen out and search the place."
The Prong lies S. by E. from Cape Porpoise 17 miles. Marks: Bring Acre Hill in line, Notch of Agamenticus at the distance from Cape Porpoise just given. From the Isle of Shoals the Prong is distant 10 miles SE. by E. Duck Island Ridges. Depths are from 25 to 30 fathoms. These are good cusk and haddock grounds in the winter and spring, the cusk remaining on the ground also from April to October.
Hamilton regained his footing and looked dazed, wheezing and puffing like a porpoise, but he clearly understood what was demanded of him. "If you call out I'll run you through," Father Beret added, seeing him move his lips as if to shout for help. The level rapier now reinforced the words. Hamilton let the breath go noiselessly from his mouth and waved his hand in token of enforced submission.
Slater emitted a sound like the moist exhalation of a porpoise as it rises to the surface. "What do you mean by that snort?" asked Murray. "It's funny how much some people are like animals. Now the ostrich thinks that when his head is hid his whole running-gear is out of sight. Gordon's an ostrich. As for you you remind me of a mud turtle.
The captain had been down into the depths of the snow-house, and had searched about carefully. He came up holding a half-burnt fragment of a letter. These words were on it: ... tamont ... orpoise ... w York. "Altamont!" cried the doctor, of the ship Porpoise, of New York." "An American," said Hatteras. "I'll save him," said the doctor, "and then we shall know all about it."
And now assistance seemed near, for the Reverend Putwood Leveson, having had to lead his bicycle up a hill, and being overcome with a melting tallow of perspiration in the effort, hove in sight like an unwieldy porpoise bobbing up on dry land. Approaching the broken gap in the hedge, he quickly spied the mare, and realised the whole situation.
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