If it fails, I must hit on some other way.

The provisions are holding out all right; and Meinik calculates that, with a little stinginess, we could manage for another three weeks.

We have drilled the hole in two inches today and, as we get more accustomed to the work, I dare say we could do three inches in each shift.

The block is twenty inches through on the straight, and may be two feet on the line that we follow; so that in four days we shall be nearly through it.
"In three weeks we shall have made five holes, which will weaken it so that we may be able to break it off.

However, I hope we shall find one hole sufficient.