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Updated: June 5, 2025
Captain Hawkins looked up and said rather seriously: "Then, my Lord, I presume you don't know " "Don't know what?" "That Miss Rennick is crossing in the care of Mrs. Van Stuyler, to be married in London next month." "The devil she is! And to whom, may I ask?" exclaimed his lordship, pulling himself up very straight. "To the Marquis of Byfleet, son of the Duke of Duncaster.
This morning Rennick got a sounding at 2015 fathoms from bottom similar to yesterday, with small pieces of basic lava; these two soundings appear to show a great distribution of this volcanic rock by ice. The line was weighed by hand after the soundings. I read Service in the wardroom. This afternoon all hands have been away on ski over the floes. It is delightful to get the exercise.
I am just taking a trial trip across the Atlantic before I start on a run round the Solar System. Sounds like a lie, doesn't it? But it's coming off. Oh, good morning, Miss Rennick! Captain, may I come on board?" "By all means, my Lord, only I'm afraid I daren't stop Uncle Sam's mails, even for you." "There's no need for that, Captain, on a smooth sea like this," was the reply.
Still, he was a man accustomed to do what he wanted: and what he wanted to do just then was to shake hands with Lilla Zaidie Rennick, and so he went straight towards her, raised his cap, and held out his hand saying, first with a glance into her eyes, and then with one upward at the Astronef: "Good morning again, Miss Rennick! You see it is done."
The wail of these birds sounds like the deep note of a banjo. The two men mostly feared the land crabs, but to their surprise they were left in peace. Next day about 9 a.m. I went in with Rennick, Bowers, Oates, Gran, and two seamen to the landing place, taking a whaler and pram equipped with grass hawser, breeches buoy, rocket line, and everything necessary to bring off the gear.
Campbell taking distances abeam with range finder. Wright noting results. Rennick sounding with Thomson machine. Drake noting results. Very early on Wednesday morning they rounded Cape Bird and came in sight of Mount Discovery and the Western Mountains. 'It was good to see them again, and perhaps after all we are better this side of the Island.
Six weeks before sailing day Lieut. Campbell took over the duties of Chief Officer in the "Terra Nova," Pennell and Rennick also joined, and Lieut. Bowers came home from the Indian Marine to begin his duties as Stores Officer by falling down the main hatch on to the pig iron ballast.
Rennick. Rennick chanced to overhear. Being aggressively in love with his wife, he did not content himself with discharging Schwartz. Instead, he thrashed the stalwart gardener, then and there; and ended the drastic performance by pitching the beaten man, bodily, out of the grounds. Schwartz collected his battered anatomy and limped away to his home in the hills just above.
Rennick got a sounding again to-day, 1843 fathoms. One is much struck by our inability to find a cause for the periodic opening and closing of the floes. One wonders whether there is a reason to be found in tidal movement. In general, however, it seems to show that our conditions are governed by remote causes.
Campbell, Levick, and Priestly set off to the old Nimrod hut eight miles away to see if they could find a stove of convenient size for their own hut, as well as any additional paraffin, and in default of the latter, to kill some seals for oil. The management of stores and transport was finally entrusted to Bowers. Rennick therefore remained with the ship.
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