But, by Jove! if you aren't a red-looking set!--redder than lobsters!" "Not redder than yerself, cap'n," laughed Donovan, who greatly enjoyed their mystification.
"The sea is like blood!" exclaimed Wade.

"You don't suppose the day of judgment has come and caught us away up here in Hudson's Straits, do you ?" "Not quite so bad as that, I guess," said Raed.

"I have it: it's the aurora borealis; nothing worse, nor more dangerous." I had expected Raed would come to it as soon as he had got his eyes open.
"A red aurora!" said the captain.

"Is that the way you explain it ?" "Not a red aurora exactly," returned Raed, "but an aurora shining down through the thick fog.

The aurora itself is miles above the fog, up in the sky and probably of the same bright yellow as usual; but the dense mist gives it this red hue." "I've heard that the northern lights were caused by electricity," said Weymouth.