"I have a feeling that if they come back to Cape Tariff they will not go out again.

Some of the men may be discouraged already, and it would produce a bad impression upon all of them to turn back for some reason which they did not understand, or for a reason such as we could give them.

I would not like to have to bring them back, now that they are getting on so well." In the course of the morning there came from the officers, men, and passenger of the Dipsey a very cordial and pleasant message to Mr.Clewe and Mrs.Raleigh, congratulating them upon the happy event of which they had been informed.

Sarah Block insisted on sending a supplementary message for herself, in which she was privately congratulatory to as great an extent as her husband would allow her to go, and which ended with a hope that if they lived to be married they would content themselves with doing their explorations on solid ground.

She did not want to come back until she had seen the pole, but some of her ideas about that kind of travelling were getting to be a good deal more fixed than they had been.
The advice which Roland Clewe gave to Samuel Block was simple enough and perhaps unnecessary, but there was noshing else for him to say.