(Signed) JOHN HATTERAS, Captain of the Forward.
DR. CLAWBONNY.
ALTAMONT, Captain of the Porpoise.
JOHNSON, Boatswain.
BELL, Carpenter."

"And now, my friends, to table!" said the doctor, gayly.

"Altamont soon found a grotto in the rocks."


CHAPTER XXIV.

POLAR COSMOGRAPHY.

Of course, to eat at table, they were obliged to sit on the ground.

"But," said Clawbonny, "who wouldn't give all the tables and dining-rooms in the world, to dine in north latitude 89° 59' 15"?"