1/10 CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT. "We are real stupids to be astonished at all!" "How, in what way ?" asked Fritz. "Why, the strange boat must have come from Tristan d'Acunha. Don't you recollect, we were told that a party always came sealing here, as well as at Nightingale Island, during the summer ?" "Oh yes; I forgot," said Fritz. "I wonder, though, you didn't see their boat pass your look-out station--you, with your fine observant eyes!" "Ah, they must have come round to leeward of the promontory, close under the land," replied Eric to this taunt:--"that is how they escaped my notice. |