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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
142
CHAPTER
XVII.
The
Author
loads
the
Explorer
with
seal
skins,
and
sails
from
Seaborn's
Land--Discovers
Albicore's
Islands.--Transactions
at
those
islands.--He
determines
to
conceal
his
discoveries
from
the
world.--His
reasons
for
this
determination,
and
measures
to
effect
it.--Sails
for
Canton.
We
continued
on
the
coast
of
Seaborn's
Land
until
February
18th,
when,
having
taken
on
board
one
hundred
thousand
seal
skins,
which
were
as
many
as
we
could
stow
without
taking
down
our
machinery,
and
that
I
did
not
think
it
prudent
to
do
on
that
side
of
the
icy
hoop,
we
took
our
departure
from
Boneto's
station,
leaving
all
the
animals
that
remained
alive
on
one
of
the
largest
islands,
to
stock
it
for
the
benefit
of
future
adventurers.
We
steered
due
north,
and
soon
lost
sight
of
the
coast.
On
the
second
day
we
fell
in
with
extensive
fields
of
ice,
which
compelled
us
to
haul
up,
first
N.
W.,
then
W.
N.
W.,
and
at
one
time
due
west.
This
was
somewhat
alarming;
but
ultimately
we
realized
the
correctness
of
my
supposition,
that
the
range
of
land
must
keep
an
open
passage
to
leeward
of
it;
and
on
the
1st
of
March,
1819,
I
had
the
satisfaction
to
observe
in
latitude
69°
15'
south,
with
a
clear
open
sea.
I
now
hauled
up
due
east,
to
run
down
my
longitude
with
the
greater
despatch
in
this
high
latitude,
where
the
degrees
of
longitude
are
small.
This
was
fortunate:
for
by
running
on
this
parallel
we
discovered
on
the
third
day
a
group
of
small
islands,
forming
a
fine
harbour,
and
well
stocked
with
seal.
Here
we
anchored.
The
islands
were
high
broken
rocks
of
granite
and
whinstone,
apparently
dislocated
from
their
primitive
bed,
and
thrown
up
by
some
volcanic
eruption,
or
by
the
efforts
of
elastic
gases
generated
in
the
'mid-plane
cavity,'
to
escape
through
this
outer
crust
of
the
earth.
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