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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?"
Let a Norwegian travel in the Southern States, and dare to say a word in objection to slavery! There is nothing of interest between Alten and Hammerfest, except the old sea-margins on the cliffs and a small glacier on the island of Seiland. The coast is dismally bleak and barren. Whales were very abundant; we sometimes saw a dozen spouting at one time.
My mind will be easier when I once know that he has gained his point, and that there's not the ghost of a chance for any other fellow!" Meanwhile the yacht skimmed along by the barren and rocky coast of Seiland; the sun was dazzling; yet there was a mist in the air as though the heavens were full of unshed tears.
Following the current, she made swift way across the dark water in the direction of the island of Seiland, and presently became a wondrous Ship of Fire! Fire flashed from her masts fire folded up her spars and sails in a devouring embrace, fire, that leaped and played and sent forth a million showering sparks hissingly into the waves beneath.
All this was intensely interesting to the good, stupid, gossiping fisher-folks of Bosekop, so much so, indeed, that they scarcely paid any heed to the spectacle of the fiery ship swaying suggestively on the heaving water, and drifting rapidly away away towards the frosted peaks of Seiland.
They all rose from their chairs and leaned on the deck-rails, looking, but uttering no word. "In one of these islands," said Thelma at last, very softly "it was either Seiland or Soroe they once found the tomb of a great chief. There was an inscription outside that warned all men to respect it, but they laughed at the warning and opened the tomb.
I have hic worked out the problem with hic care! And he would shake me by the hand warmly, with a mild and moist smile, and would retire to bed walking sideways in the most amiable manner. I'm certain his ideas were correct as well as luminous." They laughed, and then looking up saw that they were passing a portion of the coast of Seiland which was more than usually picturesque.
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.
"Rightly guessed!" he replied, still smiling; "I certainly have been at sea; I have been coasting all about your lovely land. My yacht went across to Seiland this afternoon."
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