This swift current can have but one ending--there may be an opening at the South Pole, or a whirlpool like the Maelstrom." Agnew looked around with a smile.
"All these notions," said he, "are dreams, or theories, or guesses.
There is no evidence to prove them.

Why trouble yourself about a guess?
You and I can guess, and with better reason; for we have now, it seems, come farther south than any human being who has ever lived.
Do not imagine that the surface of the earth is different at the poles from what it is anywhere else.

If we get to the South Pole we shall see there what we have always seen--the open view of land or water, and the boundary of the horizon.

As for this current, it seems to me like the Gulf Stream, and it evidently does an important work in the movement of the ocean waters.

It pours on through vast fields of ice on its way to other oceans, where it will probably become united with new currents.