The captain treated my companions as though they had been his own countrymen.
The _Tasman_ had come from the Falkland Islands where the captain had learned that seven months previously the American schooner _Halbrane_ had gone to the southern seas in search of the shipwrecked people of the _Jane_.

But as the season advanced, the schooner not having reappeared, she was given up for lost in the Antarctic regions.
Fifteen days after our rescue the _Tasman_ disembarked the survivors of the crew of the two schooners at Melbourne, and it was there that our men were paid the sums they had so hardly earned, and so well deserved.
We then learned from maps that the _Paracuta_ had debouched into the Pacific from the land called Clarie by Dumont d'Urville, and the land called Fabricia, which was discovered in 1838 by Bellenny.
Thus terminated this adventurous and extraordinary expedition, which cost, alas, too many victims.

Our final word is that although the chances and the necessities of our voyage carried us farther towards the south pole than hose who preceded us, although we actually did pass beyond the axial point of the terrestrial globe, discoveries of great value still remain to be made in those waters! Arthur Pym, the hero whom Edgar Poe has made so famous, has shown the way.

It is for others to follow him, and to wrest the last Antarctic Mystery from the Sphinx of the Ice-realm.
THE END..