Perhaps, if his investigations were successful, I might be able to have them continued in Arthur Pym's interest--even into the heart of this strange land which we were approaching.
The _Halbrane_ was going along slowly on these clear waters, which swarmed with fish belonging to the same species as we had already met.

The sea-birds were more numerous, and were evidently not frightened; for they kept flying round the mast, or perching in the yards.

Several whitish ropes about five or six feet long were brought on board.

They were chaplets formed of millions of shell-fish.
Whales, spouting jets of feathery water from their blow-holes, appeared at a distance, and I remarked that all them took a southerly direction.

There was therefore reason to believe that the sea extended far and wide in that direction.
The schooner covered two or three miles of her course without any increase of speed.