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Updated: May 7, 2025
The Canadian government is the backer and the builder. Construction engines, dredges, steamers now whistle over the silences of the northern inland sea; and Port Nelson, which for three centuries has been the great fur entrepôt of the wintry wastes, now echoes to pick and hammer and blowing locomotive intent on the construction of what is known as the Hudson Bay Railroad.
Ez was opening clams with a penknife, and spilling them into his mouth. "Want some?" he asked. The children shook their heads vigorously. He closed his knife and dropped it into his pocket. "Well, now first you want to see the dredges come in from the bay." He took them through the open front of the shed to the docks outside.
Soon, our course was along a narrow channel saw-toothed with jetties on either hand. The signs of life upon the river told that we were nearing Richmond. We passed some work-boats, tugs, dredges, and such craft, and everybody whistled. Over the top of a rise of land that marked the next bend of the river, we saw an ugly dark cloud.
The Crowd gets its heroes one at a time. Heroes are the Crowd's tools. Some are dredges, some are telescopes. The Crowd, by a kind of instinct an oversoul or undersoul of which it knows not until afterward, takes up each tool gropingly sometimes even against its will and against its conscience, uses it and drops it. Then it sees why, suddenly, it has used it. Then God hands it Another One.
We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges. The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.
Bivalve and univalve mollusca seem to be rare at the greatest depths; but starfishes, sea urchins and other echinoderms, zoophytes, sponges, and protozoa abound. It is obvious that the Challenger has the privilege of opening a new chapter in the history of the living world. She cannot send down her dredges and her trawls into these virgin depths of the great ocean without bringing up a discovery.
Kielland asked peevishly. "According to my records you have five Axis-Traction dredges, plus a dozen or more of the old kind." "Ah!" said Simpson. "Well, Number One had its vacuum chamber corroded out a week after we started using dredging. Ran into a vein of stuff with 15 per cent acid content, and it got chewed up something fierce.
And they had distorted his face almost past recognition. He moved, too, with manifest discomfort, as if all his huge body were as sore as his visage. "Hello, Roke!!" hailed Milo genially, then in amaze. "what in thunder have you been doing to yourself? Been trying to stop the East Coast Flyer? Or did you just get into an argument with one of the channel dredges?"
In certain places the poles proved insufficient to thoroughly search among the deeps, and hence a few dredges or rather harrows, made of stones and old iron, bound round with a solid bar were taken on board, and when the boats had pushed off these rakes were thrown in and the river bottom stirred up in every direction.
Away to our right was Balboa, above which rested a smoke pall from tugs, dredges, and tramp west coasters. Taboga we could just make out, and closer in a group of smaller islands the names of which I have forgotten. Beyond them all stretched the endless Pacific. Evelyn was quieter than usual, but I had never seen her look so lovely.
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