The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 14: what you’re looking at

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THE WRECK OF THE SOUTH POLE. CHAPTER I. MERELY INTRODUCTORY. Readers may remember the story told by an ancient mariner which was published last November. This was an account of a cruise which Capt. Reynolds, of New London, Conn., made in the South Seas twenty-six years ago. ‘This voyage, so far as the South Seas were con- cerned, ended at the South Georgia Islands, where the captain and his crew remained until driven out by the ice. These islands are situated exactly 1,000 miles east of Cape Horn, with an oceanic current running directly from the southern end of the American Continent to them. Here is the most beautiful harbor in the world—the Cum- berland. It is surrounded on three sides by lofty moun- tains which rear their heads straight upward 16,000 feet above the sea, and down whose sides five cataracts flow. But wild and rugged as are those mountain peaks and tempestuous as may be the ocean out beyond, no storms are ever felt within the harbor, although looking upward the sailor can see them raging around the mountain tops. Resting on the bosom of the placid waters, his ship CORNICE OOOKS (CO)