He then returned to the prow, but he saw nothing which had the appearance of land, and then, came back to the wheel.
A moment after Negoro came on deck.

There, suddenly, as if in spite of himself, his arm was extended toward a point of the horizon.

One would say that he recognized some high land in the fogs! Still, once more he smiled wickedly, and without saying anything of what he had been able to see, he returned to his post.
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