Theories about openings at the poles, or whirlpools, must be given up.

Since the Maelstrom has been found to be a fiction, no one need believe in any other whirlpool.

For my own part, I now believe that this current will bear us on, due south, over the pole, and then still onward, until at last we shall find ourselves in the South Pacific Ocean.

So cheer up--don't be downhearted; there's still hope.

We have left the ice and snow behind, and already the air is warmer.