"Yes," rejoined John Mangles, "it is the very man.
He sailed from Glasgow in the BRITANNIA in 1861, and has not
been heard of since."

"There isn't a doubt of it, not a shadow of doubt," repeated
Lord Glenarvan. "It is just that same Captain Grant. The BRITANNIA left
Callao on the 30th of May, and on the 7th of June, a week afterward,
she is lost on the coast of Patagonia. The few broken disjointed
words we find in these documents tell us the whole story.
You see, friends, our conjectures hit the mark very well;
we know all now except one thing, and that is the longitude."

"That is not needed now, we know the country. With the latitude alone,
I would engage to go right to the place where the wreck happened."

"Then have we really all the particulars now?" asked Lady Helena.

"All, dear Helena; I can fill up every one of these blanks
the sea has made in the document as easily as if Captain Grant
were dictating to me."

And he took up the pen, and dashed off the following lines immediately:
"On the 7th of June, 1862, the three-mast vessel, BRITANNIA, of Glasgow,
has sunk on the coast of Patagonia, in the southern hemisphere.
Making for the shore, two sailors and Captain Grant are about
to land on the continent, where they will be taken prisoners
by cruel Indians. They have thrown this document into the sea,
in longitude and latitude 37 degrees 11". Bring them assistance,
or they are lost."