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Captain Len Guy reflected for a little while, and then spoke: “Is it true, Dirk Peters,” he asked, “that beyond the eighty-fourth parallel the horizon is shut in by that curtain of vapour which is described in the narrative? Have you seen seen with your own eyes those cataracts in the air, that gulf in which Arthur Pym’s boat was lost?”
Jeorling, whether you think everything in Arthur Pym’s journal, which has been published by Edgar Poe, is exactly true?” “I think there is some need for doubt,” I answered “the singular character of the hero of those adventures being taken into consideration at least concerning the phenomena of the island of Tsalal.
No doubt a great part of the wonders of Arthur Gordon Pym’s narrative would prove pure fiction, but if even a little of the marvellous story were found to be true, how great a privilege would be mine!
After having handed over Pym’s journal, he had not troubled himself about its publication. Having retired to Illinois at first and to the Falklands afterwards, he had no notion of the stir that the work had made, or of the fantastic and baseless climax to which our great poet had brought those strange adventures.
Captain Len Guy and myself exchanged observations, as we walked, on the subject of this country, which, as Arthur Pym declared, differed essentially from every other land hitherto visited by human beings. We soon found that Pym’s description was trustworthy. The general colour of the plains was black, as though the clay were made of lava-dust; nowhere was anything white to be seen.
The picturesque and wonderful side of the story we were studying as gospel truth had little charm and but slight interest for Captain Len Guy; he was indifferent to everything in Pym’s narrative that did not relate directly to the castaways of Tsalal Island: his mind was solely and constantly set upon their rescue.
“Put it, Mr. Jeorling, put it.” “Shall you not need a more numerous crew for the Halbrane? Though you have men enough for the working of the ship, suppose you find you have to attack or to defend in the Antarctic waters? Let us not forget that, according to Arthur Pym’s narrative, there were thousands of natives on Tsalal Island, and if your brother if his companions are prisoners ” “I hope, Mr.
He, below there, at Baltimore, had only the notes written by Pym from the day when he hid himself on board the Grampus to the very last hour the last understand me the last.” “Who, then, brought back that journal?” asked Captain Len Guy, as he seized Hunt’s hand. “It was Pym’s companion, he who loved him, his poor Pym, like a son.
“Would he come back,” said I, “now that what he thought was known to him and me only has come out?” I informed my companions of the reason why the name of Ned Holt had been changed to that of Parker in Arthur Pym’s narrative, and of the circumstances under which the half-breed had apprised me of the fact.
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