There also were the iron relics of the _Halbrane's_ boat, all her utensils, arms, and fittings, even to the nails and the iron portions of the rudder.
There was no possibility of regaining possession of any of these things.

Even had they not adhered to the loadstone rock at too great a height to be reached, they adhered to it too closely to be detached.

Hurliguerly was infuriated by the impossibility of recovering his knife, which he recognized at fifty feet above his head, and cried as he shook his clenched fist at the imperturbable monster,-- "Thief of a sphinx!" Of course the things which had belonged to the _Halbrane's_ boat and the _Paracuta's_ were the only articles that adorned the mighty sides of the lonely mystic form.

Never had any ship reached such a latitude of the Antarctic Sea.

Hearne and his accomplices, Captain Len Guy and his companions, were the first who had trodden this point of the southern continent.