“What for?”
“To find a ship to return home in. There was none here then.”
“And her crew?”
“Are with him.”
The information made Will excited and anxious, and he asked the man a score of questions about the Albatross.
Jack, Hugo and the boys held a consultation that evening as to the best course for them to pursue.
The ship at anchor sailed in a few days for the whaling grounds, and both Jack and Hugo could have found positions among the crew.
The chances of finding ships returning home at the next station induced them to determine to go thither.
There Will might find his brother, and the ensuing morning two Esquimaux agreed to drive them to their intended destination on their sleds.
They came upon a ship in the ice before they reached the settlement, and were witnesses to the [burial in the frozen deep of two sailors] who had died on shipboard.