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On all points of taste and opinion they differed widely; but there was no doubt about their both being good-hearted fellows, without any affectation of abnormal vice or virtue. "So you did not climb Jedke after all!" remarked Errington laughingly, as they seated themselves at the breakfast table. "My friend, what would you!" cried Duprez. "I have not said that I will climb it; no!
I never say that I will do anything, because I'm not sure of myself. How can I be? It is that cher enfant, Lorimer, that said such brave words! See! . . . we arrive; we behold the shore all black, great, vast! . . . rocks like needles, and, higher than all, this most fierce Jedke bah! what a name! straight as the spire of a cathedral.
It soon reached the shore, and, entering it, he was speedily rowed away from the scene of his morning's experience back to his floating palace, where, as yet, none of his friends were stirring. "How about Jedke?" he inquired of one of his men. "Did they climb it?" A slow grin overspread the sailor's brown face. "Lord bless you, no, sir! Mr.
As he spoke he raised his field-glass and swept the horizon in search of a vessel, his own pleasure yacht, which had taken three of his friends, at their special desire, to the opposite island of Seiland, Seiland, rising in weird majesty three thousand feet above the sea, and boasting as its chief glory the great peak of Jedke, the most northern glacier in all the wild Norwegian land.
In this humor he expressed his desire to "take a sight" of the midnight sun from the island of Seiland, and also declared his resolve to try the nearly impossible ascent of the great Jedke glacier. Errington laughed at the idea. "Don't tell me," he said, "that you are going in for climbing. And do you suppose I believe that you are interested you of all people in the heavenly bodies?"
They had a superb view of the jagged glacier of Jedke, black in some parts, and in others white with unmelted snow, and seeming, as it rose straight up against the sky, to be the majestic monument of some giant Viking.
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