Part 17 (1/2)
”Yes,to set In another quarter of an hour it will be at its lowest point, and then begin to rise higher and travel apparently eastward to the south You wanted to see the reater perfection e get farther north”
”Yes; but won't it set at all?” cried Steve
”No; we shall have ill seem like endless day for the rest of the sum tio to bed and sleep?”
”Oh yes,” said the doctor, laughing; ”and I shall be very glad to get et back on board”
But Steve did notat the sun, beneath which the ice was glittering, while the snow upon the mountains flashed and looked un
”I'm very stupid, I suppose,” he said at last, as he looked from one to the other ”I learned all about it at school, and I suppose I knew all this; but now I' I can't understand how this can be night; but it will all coht by-and-by”
”Of course,” said the captain, s understands what puzzles you”
Steve looked round
”Why, he's asleep”
”Yes; and look about you Where are the birds? I don't see one on the wing”
”There are thousands up yonder on the ledges,” said Steve, pointing to the lines of black-backed and white-breasted puffins and grey gulls
”Yes, ,” said the captain ”All ready, my lads? Now, then, for the boat”
”Here, Skeny, wake up, old chap!” cried Steve, forcing a laugh ”Sorry to disturb you in thedid not stir till his master bent down and touched hiot up stiffly, shook himself and made his ears rattle, and then yawned in a very hu to follow the rest, and the dog wagged his tail and began to trot to his side, but in a laht of the great carcass of the bear Up went the hair about his throat and neck; he gave a fierce growl, forgot his lameness, and dashed at the bear's throat, stuck his teeth into it, and tried to give it a shake; then, loosening his hold reluctantly, he followed his master to the boat, which soon after reached the side of the _Hvalross_, where the cook announced the meal to be in perfect readiness, and to it treo to bed now, doesn't it?” said Steve, as they returned on deck to see the island beginning to grow distant as the vessel steamed slowly north-north-east, about a mile away from the solid blue-and-silver wall of ice on their left
”Yes,” said the doctor quietly; ”but we must have rest All this has co in that terrible fog”
”But we're leaving Jan Mayen for good, then?”
”Yes; there was nothing to stay for”
”And if we keep right on like this, where shall we go to next?”
”Coht to know the chart
I can tell you that”
”I know I ought to be able to say,” replied Steve, with his brorinkled again; ”but I'rasped it yet Where are we et up there, we are going pretty straight for the North Pole; but I expect this great ill keep us , if the weather keeps fine, we shall be sighting the land of peaks and en?” cried Steve