Long, long before you ever reached Cape Tariff, and before your master was ready to announce your discoveries to the world, I would have been using your cable.

I would have been announcing my discoveries, not in a cipher, but in plain words; not to Sardis, but to the Observatory at St.Petersburg.I would have proclaimed the discovery of the pole, I would have told of your observations and your experiments; for I am a man of science, I know these things.

I would have had the honor and the glory.

The north pole would have been Rovinski's Pole; that open sea would have been Rovinski's Sea.

All you might have said afterwards would have amounted to nothing; it would have been an old story; I would have announced it long before.