On and on sailed the beautiful _Valhalla_.

East and west, but always north, went she.
Peterkin was on a voyage of discovery, and one of his chief objects seemed to be to keep clear of the ice, which had grown very heavy indeed.
It was a delightful holiday for the children as yet, but for the professor a time of harder work than many know anything about at all.

It was really wonderful how this busy little man found time to play with the children, with Flossy and with the dogs, or even to play his fiddle.

But this, he would have told you, was his way of taking exercise; and he told Pansy that if it were not for her he didn't think he should ever be able to find the island of gold he was in search of.
Do not think, though, it was all and always plain sailing.

There were dangers of many kinds.