15' of south latitude, and 37 deg.

38' of west longitude.

But these islands were not to be found, and she did not find them.
On the 12th of December the _Jane_ headed towards the Antarctic pole.
On the 26th, the first icebergs came in sight beyond the seventy-third degree.
From the 1st to the 14th of January, 1828, the movements were difficult, the polar circle was passed in the midst of ice-floes, the icebergs' point was doubled and the ship sailed on the surface of an open sea--the famous open sea where the temperature is 47 deg.
Fahrenheit, and the water is 34 deg.
Edgar Poe, every one will allow, gives free rein to his fancy at this point.

No navigator had ever reached latitudes so high--not even James Weddell of the British Navy, who did not get beyond the seventy-fourth parallel in 1822.

But the achievement of the _Jane_, although difficult of belief, is trifling in comparison with the succeeding incidents which Arthur Pym, or rather Edgar Poe, relates with simple earnestness.