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Jeorling, and by the blessing of God I shall succeed.” “I hope so, captain. Indeed, I am certain it will be so, and if you consent ” “Is it not the case that you talked of this matter with one Glass, an English ex-corporal, who sets up to be Governor of Tristan d’Acunha?” inquired the captain, without allowing me to finish my sentence.
“Do you see?” he began again. “May I lose my liking for my grog if these heights do not change place, not with regard to the schooner, but with regard to themselves!” “And what do you conclude from this?” “That they are moving icebergs.” “Icebergs?” “Sure enough, Mr. Jeorling.” Was not the boatswain mistaken? Were we in for a disappointment?
“This, then, would be a wide strait that cuts the antarctic continent?” “Yes. Our captain is of that opinion.” “And, holding that opinion, is he not going to make an attempt to reach one or other of the coasts of this strait?” “And how?” “With the boat.” “Risk the boat in the midst of this fog!” exclaimed the boatswain, as he crossed his arms. “What are you thinking of, Mr. Jeorling?
All the facts are united by a mysterious chain.” “A chain, Mr. Jeorling, whose first link, so far as we are concerned, is Patterson’s ice-block, and whose last will be Tsalal Island. Ah! My brother! my poor brother! Left there for eleven years, with his companions in misery, without being able to entertain the hope that succour ever could reach them!
“I have two hours before me, Mr. Jeorling. Besides, there’s very little to be done to-day. If you are free, as I am ” He waved his hand towards the port. “Cannot we talk very well here?” I observed. “Talk, Mr. Jeorling, talk standing up, and our throats dry, when it is so easy to sit down in a corner of the Green Cormorant in front of two glasses of whisky.” “I don’t drink.”
“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.
“What is the meaning of that?” “I don’t know, Mr. Jeorling.” I was surprised at what the two men had said, but a little observation convinced me that Hunt actually did avoid every occasion of coming in contact with Martin Holt. Did he not think that he had a right to Holt’s gratitude although the latter owed his life to him? This man’s conduct was certainly very strange.
“With the boat, should the current carry cur iceberg away from the land.” “We have not an hour to lose, Mr. Jeorling, and the delay of a few hours might condemn us to a cruel winter stay, if we arrived too late at the iceberg barrier.” “And, considering the distance, we are not too soon,” observed West.
When Dirk Peters came up to me, he did not address me at first, and was so intent on his thoughts that I was not quite sure he saw me. At length, heleaned back against an ice-block, and spoke: “Mr. Jeorling,” he said, “you remember, in your cabin in the Halbrane, I told you the the affair of the Grampus?” I remembered well.
The smallest would do for me, and I will pay ” “All right, Mr. Jeorling! There is a cabin, which has never been used, and since you don’t mind putting your hand in your pocket if required however between ourselves it will take somebody sharper than you think, and who isn’t good old Atkins, to induce Captain Len Guy to take a passenger.
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