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And, besides, I don’t take much interest in the pole, and have no ambition to conquer it. In any case it is only to Tsalal Island ” “Tsalal Island, of course. Nevertheless, you will acknowledge that our captain has been very accommodating to you, and ” “And therefore I am much obliged to him, boatswain, and,” I hastened to add, ”to you also; since it is to your influence I owe my passage.”
These facts having been ascertained, no doubt could remain respecting the date of the cataclysm after the departure of Patterson. The destruction of the population of Tsalal whose bones lay about the village was not attributable to that catastrophe. William Guy and the five sailors of the Jane had been able to fly in time, since no bones that could be theirs had been found on the island.
The month of May had come it corresponds in those regions to the month of November in northern lands-and the ice-packs which the current carried towards the north were beginning to drift past Tsalal. One day, one of the seven men failed to return to the cavern. They called, they waited, they searched for him. All was in vain. He did not reappear; no doubt he had been drowned.
“Captain,” said I, just as though I entertained no doubt of the authenticity of Edgar Poe’s romance, “is it not the case that all these men perished, some in the attack on the schooner, the others by the infernal device of the natives of Tsalal?”
The final difference between our position and the Jane in a parallel ease, was that the Jane took fifteen days to accomplish the distance of ten degrees, or six hundred miles, which separated her on the 5th of January from Tsalal Island, while on the 19th of December the Halbrane was only about seven degrees, or four hundred miles, off the island.
“Ah! if it depended only on me! if I were sure of the assent and the help of them all! “Then Hearne spoke roughly: “Captain,” said he, “it’s two months since we left the Falklands. Now, my companions were engaged for a voyage which was not to take them farther beyond the icebergs than Tsalal Island.” “That is not so,” exclaimed Captain Len Guy. “No! That is not so.
I was asking myself whether I had or had not succeeded in inspiring my companions with my own belief, when Captain Len Guy spoke: “Dirk Peters,” he said, “doyou assert that Arthur Pym and you after your departure from Tsalal Island saw land in the direction of the south?”
“Captain, are you sure that you made a good observation when you took the altitude yesterday?” “Certainly.” “So that your point ” “Gave 83° 20’ of latitude and 43° 5’ of longitude.” “Exactly?” “Exactly.” “There is, then, no doubt that we are on Tsalal Island?” “None, Mr. Jeorling, if Tsalal Island lies where Arthur Pym places it.”
Four days later, the Halbrane neared that curious island of Tristan d’Acunha, which may be described as the big boiler of the African seas. My last doubts were buried in the depths of the ocean with the body of Patterson. And now, what was Captain Len Guy going to do? There was not a shadow of doubt on that point. He would take the Halbrane to Tsalal Island, as marked upon Patterson’s note-book.
All of a sudden a light flashed upon me. “An earthquake!” I exclaimed. “Yes, two or three of those terrible shocks, so common in these regions where the sea penetrates by infiltration, and a day comes when the quantity of accumulated vapour makes its way out and destroys everything on the surface.” “Could an earthquake have changed Tsalal Island to such an extent?” asked Len Guy, musingly.
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