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The
boats
returned
to
the
Duncan
about
the
same
time
as
Lord
Glenarvan
.
They
had
made
the
circuit
of
the
entire
island
in
a
few
hours
,
but
without
coming
across
the
least
trace
of
the
Britannia
.
The
only
result
of
this
voyage
of
circumnavigation
was
to
strike
out
the
name
of
Isle
Tristan
from
the
program
of
search
.
As
John
Mangles
intended
to
put
in
at
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
for
coals
,
he
was
obliged
to
deviate
a
little
from
the
37th
parallel
,
and
go
two
degrees
north
.
In
less
than
six
days
he
cleared
the
thirteen
hundred
miles
which
separate
the
point
of
Africa
from
Tristan
d'Acunha
,
and
on
the
24th
of
November
,
at
3
P.
M.
the
Table
Mountain
was
sighted
.
At
eight
o'clock
they
entered
the
bay
,
and
cast
anchor
in
the
port
of
Cape
Town
.
They
sailed
away
next
morning
at
daybreak
.
Between
the
Cape
and
Amsterdam
Island
there
is
a
distance
of
2,900
miles
,
but
with
a
good
sea
and
favoring
breeze
,
this
was
only
a
ten
day
's
voyage
.
The
elements
were
now
no
longer
at
war
with
the
travelers
,
as
on
their
journey
across
the
Pampas
--
air
and
water
seemed
in
league
to
help
them
forward
.
"
Ah
!
the
sea
!
the
sea
!
"
exclaimed
Paganel
,
"
it
is
the
field
par
excellence
for
the
exercise
of
human
energies
,
and
the
ship
is
the
true
vehicle
of
civilization
.
Think
,
my
friends
,
if
the
globe
had
been
only
an
immense
continent
,
the
thousandth
part
of
it
would
still
be
unknown
to
us
,
even
in
this
nineteenth
century
.
See
how
it
is
in
the
interior
of
great
countries
.
In
the
steppes
of
Siberia
,
in
the
plains
of
Central
Asia
,
in
the
deserts
of
Africa
,
in
the
prairies
of
America
,
in
the
immense
wilds
of
Australia
,
in
the
icy
solitudes
of
the
Poles
,
man
scarcely
dares
to
venture
;
the
most
daring
shrinks
back
,
the
most
courageous
succumbs
.
They
can
not
penetrate
them
;
the
means
of
transport
are
insufficient
,
and
the
heat
and
disease
,
and
savage
disposition
of
the
natives
,
are
impassable
obstacles
.
Twenty
miles
of
desert
separate
men
more
than
five
hundred
miles
of
ocean
.
"
Paganel
spoke
with
such
warmth
that
even
the
Major
had
nothing
to
say
against
this
panegyric
of
the
ocean
.
Indeed
,
if
the
finding
of
Harry
Grant
had
involved
following
a
parallel
across
continents
instead
of
oceans
,
the
enterprise
could
not
have
been
attempted
;
but
the
sea
was
there
ready
to
carry
the
travelers
from
one
country
to
another
,
and
on
the
6th
of
December
,
at
the
first
streak
of
day
,
they
saw
a
fresh
mountain
apparently
emerging
from
the
bosom
of
the
waves
.
This
was
Amsterdam
Island
,
situated
in
37
degrees
47
minutes
latitude
and
77
degrees
24
minutes
longitude
,
the
high
cone
of
which
in
clear
weather
is
visible
fifty
miles
off
.
At
eight
o'clock
,
its
form
,
indistinct
though
it
still
was
,
seemed
almost
a
reproduction
of
Teneriffe
.
"
And
consequently
it
must
resemble
Tristan
d'Acunha
,
"
observed
Glenarvan
.
"
A
very
wise
conclusion
,
"
said
Paganel
,
"
according
to
the
geometrographic
axiom
that
two
islands
resembling
a
third
must
have
a
common
likeness
.
I
will
only
add
that
,
like
Tristan
d'Acunha
,
Amsterdam
Island
is
equally
rich
in
seals
and
Robinsons
.
"
"
There
are
Robinsons
everywhere
,
then
?
"
said
Lady
Helena
.
