. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. ll they dropped anchorbetween the Battery and Bedloes Island. The Vivian thus completed thevoyage from the Golden Gate to Manhattan Island by way of the north-west passage and the polar sea. Four clays after her arrival a telegram from Gran ton, Scotland, an-nounced that the Gamhetta had reached Reykjavik, in Iceland, and aftertaking coal and stores would proceed to Havre. The youths could notunderstand why the telegram should be dated at Gran ton until the majorinformed them that there was a line of steamers between that port andReykjavik. We
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. ll they dropped anchorbetween the Battery and Bedloes Island. The Vivian thus completed thevoyage from the Golden Gate to Manhattan Island by way of the north-west passage and the polar sea. Four clays after her arrival a telegram from Gran ton, Scotland, an-nounced that the Gamhetta had reached Reykjavik, in Iceland, and aftertaking coal and stores would proceed to Havre. The youths could notunderstand why the telegram should be dated at Gran ton until the majorinformed them that there was a line of steamers between that port andReykjavik. We shall probably receive letters from our French friends,said he, as soon as the mail can bring them, and also the letter-bag weintrusted to the Gambetta. They would be very sure not to miss thesteamer to Granton. Sure enough, the Liverpool steamer, a fortnight later, brought theVivians letter-bag for the Navy Department, and also a packet of lettersin care of the postmaster of New York. The packet was to be delivered 296 THE VOYAGE OF THE
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