Such a stream as this must have some outlet." "This stream," said I, "will take us to death, and death only.

The current grows swifter every hour.

I've heard some old yarn of a vast opening at each of the poles, or one of them, into which the waters of the ocean pour.

They fall into one, and some say they go through and come out at the other." Agnew laughed.
"That," said he, "is a madman's dream.

In the first place, I don't believe that we are approaching the south, but the north.