AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY - 4

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

CHAPTER IV. FROM THE KERGUELEN ISLES TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Never did a voyage begin more prosperously, or a passenger start in better spirits. The interior of the Halbrane corresponded with its exterior. Nothing could exceed the perfect order, ...Read MoreDutch cleanliness of the vessel. The captain’s cabin, and that of the lieutenant, one on the port, the other on the starboard side, were fitted up with a narrow berth, a cupboard anything but capacious, an arm-chair, a fixed table, a lamp hung from the ceiling, various nautical instruments, a barometer, a thermometer, a chronometer, and a sextant in its Read Less