The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . r colleagues come back we continue our voyage. PassingCasabianca Islet, Gourdon lands to deposit a new messagein the cairn. This polar letter-box has been regularly clearedfor some time past, but up to the present we have been theonly postmen. November 27.—In Eoosen Channel we meet nothing butbergs, ice-blocks, and delms, and the case is the same in DeGerlache Strait. The ice-blocks most to be feared are thoseof rounded shape, of a size quite sufficient to make themdangerous, but
The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910 . r colleagues come back we continue our voyage. PassingCasabianca Islet, Gourdon lands to deposit a new messagein the cairn. This polar letter-box has been regularly clearedfor some time past, but up to the present we have been theonly postmen. November 27.—In Eoosen Channel we meet nothing butbergs, ice-blocks, and delms, and the case is the same in DeGerlache Strait. The ice-blocks most to be feared are thoseof rounded shape, of a size quite sufficient to make themdangerous, but with so small a portion rising out of the seat l;.it t hey may be mistaken for an insignificant lump of error of this sort, abreast of Two Hummocks Islet, haslet us in for a violent shock, happily without seriousconsequences. About 10 we enter Bransficld Strait, where our ship 1 Siiirc (lie Irinirain Rxpctlitii>n the Aiyrnlinr* has rhfriHlied the gcliorneof sotting up on Wandel bland a permanent observatory similar to thatwhich ii huH maintained in the Smith Orkneys wince 1904. 25-. THE SUMMER OF 1909-1910 begins to dance, and at the north-easter sets in Island grows up on the horizon and platonic wagersare being made as to whether the whale-men have arrivedyet, when the discussion is abruptly cut short by the appear-ance of one of the little whale-boats coming full speed towardus. She passes close and salutes us with her flag, while thecaps of her crew wave in the air; but the sea is alreadyrough enough to cut off all communications, and after hercourteous greeting she puts about to continue the brave fellows are the first we have seen for a very longtime. This whale-boat is the Almirante Valenzuela, of the MagellanWinding Company. So we know that the factory-ship Gober-nador Bories is at Deception ; and she promised last year tobring us our mail. Our mail! The words are the cause atonce of delight and of dread, si
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