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Updated: May 20, 2025
If this torn-away world was to float about the parent globe for long, Nigatuk might have become a focussing point for all the inhabitants of the new planet. But the volcanic eruption, or the earthquakes, had evidently shaken Nigatuk to bits, and fire had finished what remained after the earthquakes got through.
"More refugees from inland, eh?" exclaimed a rough but cordial seaman, who proved to be the captain's harpooner and boat-steerer. "We have some traders from Aleukan already with us." "Ah!" said Professor Henderson, "we have been looking for them. They have arrived in safety, then?" "But nearly frozen," said the boat-steerer. "And where are the people of Nigatuk?"
The depressing influence of this disappointment could not fail to be felt by all even by the old professor. They were without an ounce of food and had no means of continuing their journey, even had they possessed an objective point. Nigatuk was expected to have stores. Whalers as well as Government ships often touched there.
The wind had then risen to a gale, and once under way, the sleds were borne on under closely reefed blankets. They traveled down the stream at a furious pace at least twenty miles an hour and arrived within sight of Nigatuk. Not a house was standing. Most of the ruins were blackened by a devastating fire.
As for the former inhabitants of the place, our party could not even imagine what had become of them. When they went through the wrecked town, however, they found many bones picked by the wolves. Some of the Nigatuk people had met their death and the savage beasts had reaped the harvest.
"We must keep one of the sleds, at least," the old hunter insisted. "I have a scheme," quoth Mark, suddenly. "Why not use the sleds both of them?" "True enough why not?" scoffed Jack. "Let's keep them to slide down hill on. Do you realize that the professor says we are still three hundred miles from Nigatuk and the mouth of the Coleville?"
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