We built a fire and threw on some sticks of dry driftwood.

While my father was walking along the shore, I prepared a tempting repast from supplies we had provided.
There was a mild, luminous light which my father said resulted from the sun shining in from the south aperture of the earth.

That night we slept soundly, and awakened the next morning as refreshed as if we had been in our own beds at Stockholm.
After breakfast we started out on an inland tour of discovery, but had not gone far when we sighted some birds which we recognized at once as belonging to the penguin family.
They are flightless birds, but excellent swimmers and tremendous in size, with white breast, short wings, black head, and long peaked bills.
They stand fully nine feet high.

They looked at us with little surprise, and presently waddled, rather than walked, toward the water, and swam away in a northerly direction.( 21) (21 "The nights are never so dark at the Poles as in other regions, for the moon and stars seem to possess twice as much light and effulgence.
In addition, there is a continuous light, the varied shades and play of which are amongst the strangest phenomena of nature."-- Rambrosson's Astronomy.) The events that occurred during the following hundred or more days beggar description.

We were on an open and iceless sea.