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This
was
all
,
but
John
felt
it
ample
recompense
.
Glenarvan
kept
to
himself
the
secret
of
his
anxiety
,
and
neither
Lady
Helena
,
nor
Mary
,
nor
Robert
suspected
the
grave
perils
they
had
just
escaped
.
One
important
fact
had
to
be
ascertained
.
On
what
part
of
the
coast
had
the
tempest
thrown
them
?
How
far
must
they
go
to
regain
the
parallel
.
At
what
distance
S.
W.
was
Cape
Bernouilli
?
This
was
soon
determined
by
taking
the
position
of
the
ship
,
and
it
was
found
that
she
had
scarcely
deviated
two
degrees
from
the
route
.
They
were
in
longitude
36
degrees
12
minutes
,
and
latitude
32
degrees
67
minutes
,
at
Cape
Catastrophe
,
three
hundred
miles
from
Cape
Bernouilli
.
The
nearest
port
was
Adelaide
,
the
Capital
of
Southern
Australia
.
Could
the
Duncan
be
repaired
there
?
This
was
the
question
.
The
extent
of
the
injuries
must
first
be
ascertained
,
and
in
order
to
do
this
he
ordered
some
of
the
men
to
dive
down
below
the
stern
.
Their
report
was
that
one
of
the
branches
of
the
screw
was
bent
,
and
had
got
jammed
against
the
stern
post
,
which
of
course
prevented
all
possibility
of
rotation
.
This
was
a
serious
damage
,
so
serious
as
to
require
more
skilful
workmen
than
could
be
found
in
Adelaide
.
After
mature
reflection
,
Lord
Glenarvan
and
John
Mangles
came
to
the
determination
to
sail
round
the
Australian
coast
,
stopping
at
Cape
Bernouilli
,
and
continuing
their
route
south
as
far
as
Melbourne
,
where
the
Duncan
could
speedily
be
put
right
.
This
effected
,
they
would
proceed
to
cruise
along
the
eastern
coast
to
complete
their
search
for
the
Britannia
.
This
decision
was
unanimously
approved
,
and
it
was
agreed
that
they
should
start
with
the
first
fair
wind
.
They
had
not
to
wait
long
for
the
same
night
the
hurricane
had
ceased
entirely
,
and
there
was
only
a
manageable
breeze
from
the
S.
W.
Preparations
for
sailing
were
instantly
commenced
,
and
at
four
o'clock
in
the
morning
the
crew
lifted
the
anchors
,
and
got
under
way
with
fresh
canvas
outspread
,
and
a
wind
blowing
right
for
the
Australian
shores
.
Two
hours
afterward
Cape
Catastrophe
was
out
of
sight
.
In
the
evening
they
doubled
Cape
Borda
,
and
came
alongside
Kangaroo
Island
.
This
is
the
largest
of
the
Australian
islands
,
and
a
great
hiding
place
for
runaway
convicts
.
Its
appearance
was
enchanting
.
The
stratified
rocks
on
the
shore
were
richly
carpeted
with
verdure
,
and
innumerable
kangaroos
were
jumping
over
the
woods
and
plains
,
just
as
at
the
time
of
its
discovery
in
1802
.
Next
day
,
boats
were
sent
ashore
to
examine
the
coast
minutely
,
as
they
were
now
on
the
36th
parallel
,
and
between
that
and
the
38th
Glenarvan
wished
to
leave
no
part
unexplored
.
The
boats
had
hard
,
rough
work
of
it
now
,
but
the
men
never
complained
.
Glenarvan
and
his
inseparable
companion
,
Paganel
,
and
young
Robert
generally
accompanied
them
.
But
all
this
painstaking
exploration
came
to
nothing
.
Not
a
trace
of
the
shipwreck
could
be
seen
anywhere
.
The
Australian
shores
revealed
no
more
than
the
Patagonian
.
However
,
it
was
not
time
yet
to
lose
hope
altogether
,
for
they
had
not
reached
the
exact
point
indicated
by
the
document
.
On
the
20th
of
December
,
they
arrived
off
Cape
Bernouilli
,
which
terminates
Lacepede
Bay
,
and
yet
not
a
vestige
of
the
Britannia
had
been
discovered
.
Still
this
was
not
surprising
,
as
it
was
two
years
since
the
occurrence
of
the
catastrophe
,
and
the
sea
might
,
and
indeed
must
,
have
scattered
and
destroyed
whatever
fragments
of
the
brig
had
remained
.
Besides
,
the
natives
who
scent
a
wreck
as
the
vultures
do
a
dead
body
,
would
have
pounced
upon
it
and
carried
off
the
smaller
DEBRIS
.
There
was
no
doubt
whatever
Harry
Grant
and
his
companions
had
been
made
prisoners
the
moment
the
waves
threw
them
on
the
shore
,
and
been
dragged
away
into
the
interior
of
the
continent
.
But
if
so
,
what
becomes
of
Paganel
's
ingenious
hypothesis
about
the
document
?
viz.
,
that
it
had
been
thrown
into
a
river
and
carried
by
a
current
into
the
sea
.
That
was
a
plausible
enough
theory
in
Patagonia
,
but
not
in
the
part
of
Australia
intersected
by
the
37th
parallel
.
