push to the rear.

Five minutes afterwards Margaret Raleigh and Roland Clewe,
sitting close together by the telegraph instrument in the Works
at Sardis, received the following message:

"We have risen to the surface of what we believe to be the open
polar sea. Everybody is on deck but me. It is very cold, and a
wind is blowing. Off to our left there are high mountains,
stretching westward as far as we can see. They are all snow and
ice, but they look blue and green and beautiful. From these
mountains there comes this way a long cape, with a little
mountain at the end of it. Mr. Gibbs says this mountain, which
is about twenty miles away, must be just about between us and the
pole, but it does not cut us off. Far out to the right, as far
as we can see, there is open water shining in the sun, so that we
can sail around the cape. On the right and behind us, southward,
are everlasting plains of snow and ice, which we have just come
from under. They are so white that it dazzles our eyes to look
at them. In some places they are smooth, and in some places they
are tumbled up. On the very edge of the sky, in that direction,
there are more mountains. There are no animals or people
anywhere. It is very cold, even inside the vessel. My fingers
are stiff. Now that we are out on the water, in regular
shipshape, Captain Jim Hubbell has taken command. We are going
to cruise northward as soon as we can get things regulated for
outside sailing.

"SAMUEL BLOCK."