But we will go up and look out upon the polar world as far as we can see it, and we shall not decide upon this thing or that until we have thoroughly studied the whole situation.

The engines are stopped, and every one may go up, but I advise you all to put on your warmest clothes.

We should remember our experience at Lake Shiver." "It wouldn't be a bad idea," said Sammy Block, "to throw out a lot of tarpaulins to stand on, so that none of us will get frozen to the wet deck, as happened before." When the hatch was opened a man with a black beard pushed himself forward towards the companionway.
"Keep back here, sir," said Mr.Marcy, clapping his hand upon the man's shoulder.
"I want to be ready to spread the tarpaulins, sir," said he, with a wriggling motion, as if he would free himself.
"You want to be the first to see the polar sea, that is my opinion," said Mr.Marcy; "but you keep back there where you belong." And with that he gave the eager Rovinski a staggering 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.