The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras Read online

  LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

  PAGE"JOHNSON KNEW ALL THE SAILORS IN LIVERPOOL, AND IMMEDIATELY SET ABOUT ENGAGING A CREW" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

  "EVERYTHING WAS ENVELOPED IN ONE OF THE ORDINARY FOGS OF THAT REGION" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

  "THIS SPACE OF SIX FEET SQUARE CONTAINED INCALCULABLE WEALTH" . . 23

  "THE NEWS SPEAD IMMEDIATELY THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND A GREAT CONCOURSE OF SPECTATORS THRONGED THE PIERS" . . . . . . . . . 27

  "TOWARDS EVENING THE BRIG DOUBLED THE CALF OF MAN" . . . . . . . 29

  "WOULD ONE NOT SAY IT WAS A FOREIGN CITY, AN EASTERN CITY, WITH MINARETS AND MOSQUES IN THE MOONLIGHT" . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

  "FORTUNATELY THE OPENING OF THESE HUTS WAS TOO SMALL, AND THE ENTHUSIASTIC DOCTOR COULD NOT GET THROUGH" . . . . . . . . . . 71

  "A STRANGE ANIMAL WAS BOUNDING ALONG WITHIN A CABLE'S LENGTH FROM THE SHIP" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

  "JOHN HATTERAS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

  "HE CAUGHT A LARGE NUMBER OF WHITE FOXES; HE HAD PUT ON THEIR NECKS COPPER COLLARS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

  "ALL THESE POOR FELLOWS HAD DIED OF MISERY, SUFFERING, AND STARVATION" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

  "THE BRIG WAS TOSSED ABOUT LIKE A CHILD'S TOY" (_Frontispiece_) . 134

  "THE WHALE SWAM AWAY FROM THE BRIG AND HASTENED TOWARDS THE MOVING ICEBERGS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

  "THE FORWARD IN WELLINGTON CHANNEL" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

  HATTERAS MADE USE OF A DEVICE WHICH WHALERS EMPLOY . . . . . . . 153

  "A CRASH WAS HEARD, AND AS IT CAME AGAINST THE STARBOARD-QUARTER, PART OF THE RAIL HAD GIVEN WAY" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

  "THE MOON SHONE WITH INCOMPARABLE PURITY, GLISTENING ON THE LEAST ROUGHNESS IN THE ICE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

  "ALMOST EVERY NIGHT THE DOCTOR COULD OBSERVE THE MAGNIFICENT AURORAS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

  "HE WAS ARMED, AND HE KEPT CONSTANT GUARD, WITHOUT MINDING THE COLD, THE SNOW, OR THE ICE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

  "THE LITTLE BAND MADE THEIR WAY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST" . . . . . 202

  "THE DOCTOR HAD ENERGY ENOUGH TO ASCEND AN ICE-MOUNTAIN WHILE THE SNOW-HUT WAS BUILDING" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

  "'FIRE!' SHOUTED THE CAPTAIN, DISCHARGING HIS PIECE" . . . . . . 211

  "THEY COULD ONLY THINK OF THEIR PERILOUS POSITION" . . . . . . . 218

  "SUDDENLY, WITH A LAST EFFORT, HE HALF ROSE" . . . . . . . . . . 223

  "THEN A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION WAS HEARD" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

  "THE LARGE PIECES OF THE ENGINE LAY HERE AND THERE, TWISTED OUT OF SHAPE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

  "THEY HARNESSED THE TIRED DOGS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

  JOHNSON'S STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

  "'YES!' SAID THE AMERICAN" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

  "THE DOCTOR WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO FIND A SEAL" . . . . . . . . 258

  "AT THE END OF TWO HOURS THEY FELL, EXHAUSTED" . . . . . . . . . 263

  "HE PLUNGED HIS KNIFE INTO THE BEAST'S THROAT" . . . . . . . . . 269

  "THESE CASTAWAYS LOOKED AT THEMSELVES AS COLONISTS WHO HAD REACHED THEIR DESTINATION" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

  THE FORT WAS COMPLETED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

  "I AM NOT AWARE THAT IT BEARS ANY NAME ON THE MOST RECENT MAPS" . 288

  "THE DOCTOR REACHED THE SUMMIT WITH SOME LITTLE DIFFICULTY" . . . 291

  "THEY ADVANCED IN FULL ILLUMINATION, AND THEIR SHARPLY CUT SHADOWS RAN OUT BEHIND THEM OVER THE SNOW" . . . . . . . . . . 299

  "HE DID HIS BEST TO INSTRUCT AND INTEREST HIS COMPANIONS" . . . . 308

  "HATTERAS COULD ONLY KEEP HIS DISTANCE FROM THE ANIMALS BY THROWING AWAY HIS CAP, HATCHET, AND EVEN HIS GUN" . . . . . . 326

  "THE BEARS HEAPED THE ICE IN SUCH A WAY AS TO RENDER FLIGHT IMPOSSIBLE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

  "AN ENORMOUS BLACK BODY APPEARED IN THE GLOOM OF THE ROOM. ALTAMONT RAISED HIS HAND TO STRIKE IT" . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

  "A LOUD EXPLOSION FOLLOWED" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

  "THE CARPENTER SET TO WORK AT ONCE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

  "A HARD STRUGGLE WITH THE ICEBERGS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

  "MACCLURE SAW A MAN RUNNING AND GESTICULATING" . . . . . . . . . 355

  "THE DOCTOR, JOHNSON, AND BELL INTERVENED. IT WAS TIME; THE TWO ENEMIES WERE GAZING AT ONE ANOTHER" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

  "THEY WERE A CURIOUS AND TOUCHING SIGHT, FLYING ABOUT WITHOUT FEAR, RESTING ON CLAWBONNY'S SHOULDERS," ETC. . . . . . . . . 364

  "GAVE HIM A TERRIBLE BLOW WITH A HATCHET ON THE HEAD" . . . . . . 369

  "WELL, I'VE BROUGHT BACK TWO BROTHERS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

  "THE SEAL STRUGGLED FOR A FEW SECONDS, AND WAS THEN SUFFOCATED ON THE BREAST OF HIS ADVERSARY" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

  "THEY LEFT AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING" . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

  "ON THE 29TH BELL SHOT A FOX, AND ALTAMONT A MEDIUM-SIZED MUSK-OX" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

  "THE MASSES OF ICE TOOK THE FORMS OF HUMMOCKS AND ICEBERGS" . . . 384

  "ON ALL SIDES RESOUNDED THE CRACKING OF THE ICE AMID THE ROAR OF THE AVALANCHES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

  "'WE OUGHT,' ANSWERED BELL, 'TO LIGHT TORCHES, AS IS DONE AT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL'" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

  THE HUT WAS PITCHED IN A RAVINE FOR SHELTER . . . . . . . . . . . 390

  "THEY CLIMBED A HILL WHICH COMMANDED A WIDE VIEW" . . . . . . . . 392

  "THREE HOURS LATER THEY REACHED THE COAST. 'THE SEA! THE SEA!' THEY ALL SHOUTED" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

  "THE LAUNCH WAS ROCKING GENTLY IN HER LITTLE HARBOR" . . . . . . 393

  "AQUATIC BIRDS OF ALL SORTS WERE THERE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

  "THEN THE EYE GLANCING DOWN INTO THE TRANSPARENT WATER, THE SIGHT WAS EQUALLY STRANGE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

  "'IT'S A VOLCANO!' HE CRIED" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

  "THE LAUNCH TOSSED HELPLESSLY ABOUT" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

  "THE FOG, WITHOUT LIFTING, WAS VERY BRIGHT" . . . . . . . . . . . 405

  "THIS DRIFTING FLOE WAS COVERED WITH WHITE BEARS, CROWDED TOGETHER" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

  "HER SAIL FLEW AWAY LIKE A HUGE WHITE BIRD; A WHIRLPOOL, A NEW MAELSTROM, FORMED AMONG THE WAVES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

  "THE MOUNTAIN WAS IN FULL ERUPTION" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

  "THEY NOTICED A LITTLE FIORD" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

  "ALTAMONT SOON FOUND A GROTTO IN THE ROCKS" . . . . . . . . . . . 412

  "THEY WERE ALL READY TO LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR" . . . . . . . . . . 413

  "THEY SAW THE CAPTAIN STANDING ON A ROCK" . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

  "HATTERAS APPEARED TO WAKE FROM HIS REVERY" . . . . . . . . . . . 421

  "THE DOCTOR PUT UP A CAIRN" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

  "DEAD--FROZEN" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

  "BUT HATTERAS DID NOT LOOK BACK. HE HAD MADE USE OF HIS STAFF AS A POLE ON WHICH TO FASTEN THE ENGLISH FLAG" . . . . . . . . . 437

  "TWO HOURS LATER, AFTER UNHEARD-OF EFFORTS, THE LAST MEN OF THE FORWARD WERE TAKEN ABOARD THE DANISH WHALER HANS CHRISTIAN" . 438

  "A STEAMBOAT CARRIED THEM TO KIEL" . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 438