Part 37 (1/2)
”Youover a rock at you at a little distance, that it was soe”
”Yes, but it would have to keep its body out of sight”
”She has never seen the walrus, then?” said Andrew
”Only a stuffed specimen”
”Nay, she tidn't say a stuff spessaman; she said ta walrus, sir”
”No, I never saw a live walrus,” said the doctor, s bull walrus lift her het oot o' ta watter and look, and she'll say tat she's seen a chiant having a swim”
The captain caone out of his face, and he lass, and Steve saw hi the telescope Directly after Mr Lowe descended and fetched the instruments to take their observations, with the result that soon after thethe captain to direct the movements of the vessel
There was so much open water around them now, and so direct a channel toward the land, while all the rest of the space about theo to the north coast was the least perilous course
”I should like to get an observation fro upward, ”but everything is so coated with ice and slippery that I hardly like to send a erly
The captain shook his head
”Too dangerous, my lad,” he said
”But you did not tell us where you made out we had been driven,” said the doctor, as Steve stood looking up at the ratlines thick with ice, and the glassy look of shroud and stay, while great icicles hung fro your pardon,” said the captain ”I was thinking of the land yonder I rees north latitude and about 45 east longitude”
”But what does thatas near to the North Pole as any one has reached in this direction,” said the captain, ”and that we are close to land that in all probability man has never set foot upon yet”
”Hooray!” cried Steve excitedly
”We have come north at an exceptional tiress This year that storm has broken it up in masses, and it is quite possible that we may be able to penetrate farther yet”
”To the North Pole?” cried Steve
”No,” said the captain, s ”My dear boy, you have North Pole on the brain Would you be ready to go with me if I said that I would try and penetrate the ice as far as I could?”
”Of course,” cried Steve ”But you have no confidence in me, sir”
”What do you o up even to the crow's-nest to use the glass”
”Yes, I will, o up