Excerpts from the Book 'An Antartic Mystery':

... And then the man took a short black pipe out of the pocket of his jacket, and smoked like a steamer in full blast. Mr. Hurliguerly? said I. Mr. ...
... is Saturday, Mr. Jeorling. You have not spoken to him? Yes, I have. Atkins was visibly embarrassed. You have informed him that a person of your ...
... were not all killed by the natives, if they were so fortunate as to reach the neighbouring islands sighted during the voyage-why should not those unfortunate ...
... to fear with such a seaman as he. Our lieutenant has not his match afloat, said Hurliguerly to me one day. He ought to be in command of a flag-ship. Indeed, ...
... Captain Len Guy, who knew Patterson, had recognized him in this frozen corpse! It was indeed he who accompanied the captain of theJanewhen he had interred ...
... the end of the month of September ought to bring us within sight of the first peaks of the Falkland Group and so, very sensibly towards the south the schooner ...
... occupy a bunk in the forecastle with the others. Captain Len Guy's intention was to take the Sandwich Isles for his point of departure towards the ...
... fishing was forbidden on board theHalbrane, and our daily bill of fare profited by the boatswain's trawling lines, to the extreme satisfaction of stomachs ...
... like enormous leeches. Above this strange flotilla we traced the incessant flight of petrels, pigeons, black puffins, divers, grebe, sterns, ...
... mean by repeating the name of the man whose pernicious advice led my brother to the island on which theJanewas lost, the greater part of her crew was massacred, ...
... might have ended in a revolt. A revolt we should have speedily put down, said West, coolly, were it only by knocking Hearne, who is always exciting ...
... except those of Hurliguerly the boatswain, and Endicott the cook, which found no echo. On the 13th of January a conversation took place between the boatswain ...
... of theHalbrane. The outlines of land lightly drawn above the sky line were visible on this side. The land announced to the sailors of the fane was ...
... any hesitation or opposition. The responsibility for the general safety is mine, and I will not yield any of it to anyone. I am master here, as on ...
... not this the case? In any case it is a wonderful running aground, replied the boatswain. Instead of a good solid bottom, we have run aground in the ...
... up the slope. We had exchanged hardly a dozen words since the iceberg had begun to move again. When Dirk Peters came up to me, he did not address me ...
... others. Both Martin Holt and Hardy were perfectly capable of taking the boat to the fishing-grounds, where the whalers would still be found. Then, those ...
... and followed by the numerous warriors of Too Wit, the little company divided, Arthur Pym, Dirk Peters, and Allen (the sailor) entering a cleft in ...
... to the notes in his pocket-book that theHalbranehad been enabled to proceed towards the antarctic seas, William Guy hid his face in his hands and wept. Other ...
... two similar points of the terrestrial globe. This phenomenon, already proved by observations made on the spot, must be identical in the Antarctic ...