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We
found
absolutely
desolate
country
;
the
only
inhabitants
were
melancholy
birds
of
Antarctic
species
.
Mosses
and
lichens
cover
the
nakedness
of
an
unproductive
soil
.
Behind
the
beach
a
few
firs
rise
to
a
considerable
height
on
the
bare
hill
-
sides
,
from
whence
great
masses
occasionally
come
crashing
down
with
a
thundering
sound
.
Awful
solitude
reigns
everywhere
.
There
was
nothing
to
attest
the
passage
of
any
human
being
,
or
the
presence
of
any
shipwrecked
persons
on
Bristol
Island
.
West
’
s
exploration
at
Thule
produced
a
precisely
similar
result
.
A
few
shots
fired
from
our
schooner
had
no
effect
but
to
drive
away
the
crowd
of
petrels
and
divers
,
and
to
startle
the
rows
of
stupid
penguins
on
the
beach
.
While
Captain
Len
Guy
and
I
were
walking
,
I
said
to
him
,
—
“
You
know
,
of
course
,
what
Cook
’
s
opinion
on
the
subject
of
the
Sandwich
group
was
when
he
discovered
it
.
At
first
he
believed
he
had
set
foot
upon
a
continent
.
According
to
him
,
the
mountains
of
ice
carried
out
of
the
Antarctic
Sea
by
the
drift
were
detached
from
that
continent
He
recognized
afterwards
that
the
Sandwiches
only
formed
an
Archipelago
,
but
,
nevertheless
,
his
belief
that
a
polar
continent
farther
south
exists
,
remained
firm
and
unchanged
.
”
“
I
know
that
is
so
,
Mr
.
Jeorling
,
”
replied
the
captain
,
“
but
if
such
a
continent
exists
,
we
must
conclude
that
there
is
a
great
gap
in
its
coast
,
and
that
Weddell
and
my
brother
each
got
in
by
that
gap
at
six
years
’
interval
.
That
our
great
navigator
had
not
the
luck
to
discover
this
passage
is
easy
to
explain
;
he
stopped
at
the
seventy
-
first
parallel
!
But
others
found
it
after
Captain
Cook
,
and
others
will
find
it
again
.
”
“
And
we
shall
be
of
the
number
,
captain
.
”
“
Yes
—
with
the
help
of
God
!
Cook
did
not
hesitate
to
assert
that
no
one
would
ever
venture
farther
than
he
had
gone
,
and
that
the
Antarctic
lands
,
if
any
such
existed
,
would
never
be
seen
,
but
the
future
will
prove
that
he
was
mistaken
.
They
have
been
seen
so
far
as
the
eighty
-
fourth
degree
of
latitude
—
”
“
And
who
knows
,
”
said
I
,
“
perhaps
beyond
that
,
by
Arthur
Pym
.
”
“
Perhaps
,
Mr
.
Jeorling
.
It
is
true
that
we
have
not
to
trouble
ourselves
about
Arthur
Pym
,
since
he
,
at
least
,
and
Dirk
Peters
also
,
returned
to
America
.
”
