Behind the beach a few firs rise to a considerable height on the bare hill-sides, from whence great masses occasionally come crashing down with a thundering sound.
Awful solitude reigns everywhere.

There was nothing to attest the passage of any human being, or the presence of any shipwrecked persons on Bristol Island.
West's exploration at Thule produced a precisely similar result.

A few shots fired from our schooner had no effect but to drive away the crowd of petrels and divers, and to startle the rows of stupid penguins on the beach.
While Captain Len Guy and I were walking, I said to him,-- "You know, of course, what Cook's opinion on the subject of the Sandwich group was when he discovered it.

At first he believed he had set foot upon a continent.

According to him, the mountains of ice carried out of the Antarctic Sea by the drift were detached from that continent.