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On
the
table
lay
also
a
volume
which
had
been
read
and
re
-
read
a
hundred
times
.
Most
of
its
pages
were
dogs
’
-
eared
and
their
margins
were
filled
with
pencilled
notes
.
And
on
the
cover
shone
the
title
in
brightly
gilded
letters
:
THE
ADVENTURES
OF
ARTHUR
GORDON
PYM
.
On
the
8th
of
September
,
in
the
evening
,
I
had
taken
leave
of
His
Excellency
the
Governor
-
General
of
the
Archipelago
of
Tristan
d
’
Acunha
—
for
such
is
the
official
title
bestowed
upon
himself
by
that
excellent
fellow
,
Glass
,
ex
-
corporal
of
artillery
in
the
British
Army
.
On
the
following
day
,
before
dawn
,
the
Halbrane
sailed
.
After
we
had
rounded
Herald
Point
,
the
few
houses
of
Ansiedlung
disappeared
behind
the
extremity
of
Falmouth
Bay
.
A
fine
breeze
from
the
east
carried
us
along
gaily
.
During
the
morning
we
left
behind
us
in
succession
Elephant
Bay
,
Hardy
Rock
,
West
Point
,
Cotton
Bay
,
and
Daly
’
s
Promontory
;
but
it
took
the
entire
day
to
lose
sight
of
the
volcano
of
Tristan
d
’
Acunha
,
which
is
eight
thousand
feet
high
;
its
snow
-
clad
bulk
was
at
last
veiled
by
the
shades
of
evening
.
During
that
week
our
voyage
proceeded
under
the
most
favourable
conditions
;
if
these
were
maintained
,
the
end
of
the
month
of
September
ought
to
bring
us
within
sight
of
the
first
peaks
of
the
Falkland
Group
;
and
so
,
very
sensibly
towards
the
south
;
the
schooner
having
descended
from
the
thirty
-
eighth
parallel
to
the
fifty
-
fifth
degree
of
latitude
.
The
most
daring
,
or
,
perhaps
I
ought
to
say
,
the
most
lucky
of
those
discoverers
who
had
preceded
the
Halbrane
,
under
the
command
of
Captain
Len
Guy
,
in
the
Antarctic
seas
,
had
not
gone
beyond
—
Kemp
,
the
sixty
-
sixth
parallel
;
Ballerry
,
the
sixty
-
seventh
;
Biscoe
,
the
sixty
-
eighth
;
Bellinghausen
and
Morrell
,
the
seventieth
;
Cook
,
the
seventy
-
first
;
Weddell
,
the
seventy
-
fourth
.
And
it
was
beyond
the
eighty
-
third
,
nearly
five
hundred
and
fifty
miles
farther
,
that
we
must
go
to
the
succour
of
the
survivors
of
the
Jane
!
I
confess
that
for
a
practical
man
of
unimaginative
temperament
,
I
felt
strangely
excited
;
a
nervous
restlessness
had
taken
possession
of
me
.
I
was
haunted
by
the
figures
of
Arthur
Pym
and
his
companions
,
lost
in
Antarctic
ice
-
deserts
.
I
began
to
feel
a
desire
to
take
part
in
the
proposed
undertaking
of
Captain
Len
Guy
.
I
thought
about
it
incessantly
.
As
a
fact
there
was
nothing
to
recall
me
to
America
.
It
is
true
that
whether
I
should
get
the
consent
of
the
commander
of
the
Halbrane
remained
to
be
seen
;
but
,
after
all
,
why
should
he
refuse
to
keep
me
as
a
passenger
?
Would
it
not
be
a
very
“
human
”
satisfaction
to
him
to
give
me
material
proof
that
he
was
in
the
right
,
by
taking
me
to
the
very
scene
of
a
catastrophe
that
I
had
regarded
as
fictitious
,
showing
me
the
remains
of
the
Jane
at
Tsalal
,
and
landing
me
on
that
selfsame
island
which
I
had
declared
to
be
a
myth
?
Nevertheless
,
I
resolved
to
wait
,
before
I
came
to
any
definite
determination
,
until
an
opportunity
of
speaking
to
the
captain
should
arise
.
