AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY - 16

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

CHAPTER XVI. TSALAL ISLAND. The night passed without alarm. No boat had put off from the island, nor had a native shown himself upon the beach. The Halbrane, then, had not been observed on her arrival; this was all ...Read Morebetter. We had cast anchor in ten fathoms, at three miles from the coast. When the Jane appeared in these waters, the people of Tsalal beheld a ship for the first time, and they took it for an enormous animal, regarding its masts as limbs, and its sails as garments. Now, they ought to be better informed on this subject, Read Less