l Society for the Promotion of Fair Play. At a meeting of this excellent association, it had been “resolved” that the partiality of science for the North Pole was an Menn Marco Verratti Fotballdrakter invidious distinction between two objects equally meritorious; that Nature had marked her disapproval of it in the Germany Kinder case of Sir John Franklin and many of his imitators; that it served them very well right; that this enterprise should be undertaken as a protest against the spirit of undue bias; and, finally, that no part of the responsibility Menn Arjen Robben Fotballdrakter or expense should devolve upon the society in its corporate character, but any individual member might contribute to the fund if he were fool enough. It is only common justice to say that none of them was. The Camel merely parted her cable one day while I happened to be on board — drifted out of the harbor southward, followed by the execrations of all who knew her, and could not get back. In two months she had crossed the equator, and the heat began to grow insupportable.
Suddenly we were becalmed. There had been a fine breeze up to three o’clock in the afternoon Menn Riechedly Bazoer Fotballdrakter and the ship had made as much as two knots an hour when without a word of warning the sails began to belly the wrong way, owing to the impetus that the ship had acquired; and then, as this expired, they hung as limp and lifeless as the skirts of a clawhammer coat. The Camel not only stood stock still but moved a little backward toward England. Old Ben the boatswain said that he’d never knowed but one deader calm, and that, he explained, was when Preacher Jack, the reformed sailor, had got excited in a sermon in a seaman’s chapel and shouted that the Archangel Menn Marco Fabian Fotballdrakter Michael would chuck the Dragon into the brig and give him a taste of the rope’s -end, damn his eyes!
We lay in this woful state for the better part of a year, when, growing impatient, Menn Fotballdrakter the crew deputed me to look up the captain and see if something Menn Jack Wilshere Fotballdrakter could not be done about it. I found him in a remote cobwebby corner between-decks, with a book in his hand. On one side of him, the cor |