Never, however, could I lose the recollection that I had actually met and sailed with a man who took the fictions of Edgar Poe's romance for sober fact.

Never could I have looked for such an experience! On the 22nd of August the outline of Prince Edward's Island was sighted, south latitude 46 deg.

55', and 37 deg.

46' east longitude.
We were in sight of the island for twelve hours, and then it was lost in the evening mists.
On the following day the _Halbrane_ headed in the direction of the north-west, towards the most northern parallel of the southern hemisphere which she had to attain in the course of that voyage..