Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-12-31
CHAPTER XII.

Cf1AI hfC ALL
The sight of the sloop suggested to
Cawbonny the propriety of giving AL
tamOnts name to the little bay. His
proposition to that effect met with
unanimous approval, and the port was
forthwith dignified by the title of AL
lamont harbor.
According to the doctors calcula-
tons, the travellers were now only
three degrees distant from the pole.
They had gone over 200 miles from
Victoria bay to Altamont harbor, and
we're in latitude 81 degrees minutes
and longitude 118 degrees 35 minutes.
Next morning by o'clock all the re-
naming effects were on board, and the
Preparations for departure completed.
quarter of an hour afterward the
little sIOop sailed out of Altamont har-
Dor, and commenced her voyage of dis
COvery. The wind was favorable, but
there was little of it, and the weather
was positively warm.
Toward evening Hatteras and his
companions lost sight of the coast.
Night came on, though the sun re-
NAMED just above the horizon. Since
the departure from Altamont harbor,
the sloop had made one degree far
Their north
The next day brought no signs of
land; there was not even a speck on
the horizon
At length, about in the evening, a
oLm hazy, shapeless sort of mist SEEM
ed to rise far away between sea and
Sky 1t was not a cloud, for it was
constantly vanishing, and then reap
peaTng next minute.
Hatteras was the first to notice this
peculiar phenomenon; but after an
hours scrutiny through his telescope,
lie could make nothing out of it.
All at once, however, some sure in
ucauon met his eye, and stretching
out his arm to the horizon, he shouted,
IN clear, ringing voice:
Land. land!"
his words produced an electrical eff
'ect on his companions, and every man
rushed to his side
see it, l see it," said Clawbonny.
Yes, Yes, so do To- exclaimed John
son.
It is cloud" said Altamont.
Land. land!" repeated Hatteras, in
"AeS Of absolute conviction.
Let US make right for it, then"
said Hatteras.
It was impossible longer to doubt
VIC proximity of the coast. In TWEEN
Y'Iour hours, probably, the bold navi-
sa0rs might hope to set foot on it's
1"Uodden soil. But strange as it was,
~" mat they were SO near the goal
"'eF voyage, no one showed the
~ winch might have been expected.
-acn man sat silent, absorbed in his
v"A thoughts, wondering what sort of
*'aCs mis- pole must be.
Al last sleep overcame the tired men.
r -O one after another dropped off,
ing Hatteras to keep watch.
"""e Hatteras dreamed of home
~, lame an enormous cloud Of an
..,e unge had hegun to darken sea
anu SKY. A hurricane was at hand.
=. "Est blast of the tempest reused
~ captain and his companions, and
~ s were on their feet in an instant,
,,' 10 meet 1t. The sea had risen
f,.-,'ehQously, and the ship was toss
Ls ''o.entiy up and down on the bill
s,,, Hatteras took the helm again,
s,n Aept firm hold of it, while John
r.s .'u beil baled out the water which
n, INSTANTLY dashing over the ship.
s.sn ans sudden tempest might well
brbi., 20 such excited men, stern pro-
ns vH against further approach to
A. Sole; but it needed but a glance
asr +-slF resolute faces to know that
psr,. "ould neither yield to winds nor
P,s' out so right on to the end.
5satt Whole day the struggle lasted.
Gbs threatening them each moment.
he u-o1 Al evening, just as the fury Of
AA,a 'eS seemed at it's highest pitch,
Vas ,. S"'he a sudden calm. The wind
"a he'd as If miraculously, and the
'@tne smoot1 as glass.