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On one side of the cabin, extending beneath the poop deck, with a row of lights in the circular wall formed by the stern, were the four cabins to be occupied by Captain Hazzard, the chief engineer, a middle-aged Scotchman named Gavin MacKenzie, Professor Simeon Sandburr, the scientist of the expedition, and the surgeon, a Doctor Watson Gregg.
I leave all my books, bottled fishes and reptiles to the Smithsonian Institute. My servant, James, may have my stuffed Wogoliensuarious. My sister is to have my entire personal and real estate. This is my last will and testament. "Simeon Sandburr. "M.A.-F.R.G.S.-M.R.H.S.-Etc., etc."
The boys looked at the writing on their slips. They were all the same, and on each was inscribed: "The man who told me that the Patagonians were a friendly race is a traitor to science. I, Professor Simeon Sandburr, brand him a teller of untruths. For Professor Thomas Tapper, who told me about the fur-bearing pollywog of the South Polar seas, I have the warmest respect.
A few interesting days were spent in Monte Video and the boys sent many letters home and Captain Hazzard forwarded his log books and data as obtained up to date. Professor Sandburr spent his time among the natives collecting memoranda about their habits while the boys roamed at their leisure about the city.
"Or perhaps they have on life-belts," suggested Billy. "Neither will do them much good," put in a voice at his elbow grimly. It was Professor Sandburr. "Why?" demanded Frank, "we will be alongside in a few minutes now and if they can only keep up we can save them." "The peril of drowning is not so imminent as another grave danger they face," spoke the professor. "What's that?"
"That man is taking a desperate chance," put in Professor Simeon Sandburr, who had climbed up and joined the party and looked with his long legs and big round glasses, like some queer sort of a bird perched in the rigging. "Hydrogen gas is deadly and if he should inhale any of it he would die like a bug in a camphor bottle."
Seems to me like good times would never come again." Ivar expressed himself in a deep sigh, but said nothing. He stooped and took a sandburr from his toe. "Ivar," Signa asked suddenly, "will you tell me why you go barefoot? All the time I lived here in the house I wanted to ask you. Is it for a penance, or what?" "No, sister. It is for the indulgence of the body.
"There aren't any," put in Billy. "Wall, whatever kind of critters there are there," went on the old man, "no, sir; Ben Stubbs ain't the man to hold back on a venture like this. Sign me on as bos'n, and if I don't help nail Uncle Sam's colors to the South Pole call me a doodle-bug." "A doodle-bug," exclaimed Professor Sandburr, "What kind of a bug is that?
The various scientific instruments of the expedition were stored in the huts occupied by Captain Barrington and Captain Hazzard. These huts, as well as the one occupied by the boys and Professor Sandburr, were all warmed by a system of hot-air pipes leading from the main stove in the hut. Specially designed oil heaters were also provided.
"Oh, professor Professor Sandburr, are you there?" he shouted the next moment. "What is it? Is the ship going down?" came back from the depths in the voice of the professor. He seemed as calm as if it was a summer's day. "No, but she is having a terrible fight with the waves," replied the boy. "She has broken loose from the towing ship. The cable has snapped!" added Harry.
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