On that day an observation gave 86 deg.

33' for the latitude, the longitude remaining the same between the and the forty-third meridian.

Here it was, according the half-breed, that the two fugitives were parted after the collision between the boat and the floating mass of ice.

But a question now arose.

Since the mass of ice carrying away Dirk Peters had drifted towards the north, was this because it was subjected to the action of a countercurrent?
Yes, that must have been so, for oar schooner had not felt the influence of the current which had guided her on leaving the Falklands, for fully four days.