I shall not go into the details of its construction--it lies out there in the desert now--about two miles from here.
"And we are making seven miles an hour," I concluded for him, as I sat with my eyes upon the distance meter.
They ascended to the foot of the first rapid, about two hundred
miles, but could hear nothing of any white men being in the neighborhood.
In a few minutes the far bank, a
mile away, unobtrusively came into view, and ahead and behind, the whole frozen river could be seen, with off to the left a wide-extending range of sharp-cut, snow-covered mountains.
There, a
mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves.
At half-past two in the morning, the projectile was over the thirteenth lunar parallel and at the effective distance of five hundred
miles, reduced by the glasses to five.
This river is situated about sixty
miles south of Port St.
Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five
mile wide and full of rushes -- and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
There, not more than forty or fifty
miles from us, glittering like silver in the early rays of the morning sun, soared Sheba's Breasts; and stretching away for hundreds of
miles on either side of them ran the great Suliman Berg.
I felt that I didn't know so well as
Miles, and I took temporary refuge.
At sunrise the next day, which was 8th November, the boat had made more than one hundred
miles. The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine
miles.
This island, lying near to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical
miles below the equator.
