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Navigators and Their Discoveries

           Atseveno’clockintheeveningtheAustraliancoastandthelighthouseoftheportofEdenhadfadedoutofsight.Theshiplaboredonthelumpysea,androlledheavilyinthetroughofthewaves.Thepassengersbelowsufferedagooddealfromthismotion.Butitwasimpossibletostayondeck,asitrainedviolently.Thustheywerecondemnedtocloseimprisonment.

           Eachoneofthemwaslostinhisownreflections.Wordswerefew.NowandthenLadyHelenaandMissGrantexchangedafewsyllables.Glenarvanwasrestless;hewentinandout,whiletheMajorwasimpassive.JohnMangles,followedbyRobert,wentonthepoopfromtimetotime,tolookattheweather.Paganelsatinhiscorner,mutteringvagueandincoherentwords.

           Whatwastheworthygeographerthinkingof?OfNewZealand,thecountrytowhichdestinywasleadinghim.Hewentmentallyoverallhishistory;hecalledtomindthescenesofthepastinthatill-omenedcountry.

           Butinallthathistorywasthereafact,wasthereasolitaryincidentthatcouldjustifythediscoverersoftheseislandsinconsideringthemas"acontinent."Couldamoderngeographerorasailorconcedetothemsuchadesignation.Paganelwasalwaysrevolvingthemeaningofthedocument.Hewaspossessedwiththeidea;itbecamehisrulingthought.AfterPatagonia,afterAustralia,hisimagination,alluredbyaname,flewtoNewZealand.Butinthatdirection,onepoint,andonlyone,stoodinhisway.

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