A score of natives pursued and vainly tried to stop them; the former were driven off, and the boat was launched successfully and steered for the south.
Arthur Pym was then navigating beyond the eighty-fourth degree of south latitude.

It was the beginning of March, that is to say, the antarctic winter was approaching.

Five or six islands, which it was prudent to avoid, were visible towards the west.

Arthur Pym's opinion was that the temperature would become more mild by degrees as they approached the pole.

They tied together two white shirts which they had been wearing, and hoisted them to do duty as a sail.
At sight of these shirts the native, who answered to the name of Nu-Nu, was terrified.