“Neither have I,” said the doctor.

“But the distance traveled warrants the belief that we are near it,” persisted Frank.

Barney was just about to reply when there came a yell from Pomp, up in the turret.

“Dar’s a anchored ship now!”

Every one was startled.

They rushed up-stairs.

Off to the right they saw the vessel.

As soon as Frank saw her he cried:

“It is the Red Eric!”

The whaler, stripped of her canvas, was moored to the shore of a large bay in a great basin below an eminence upon which the ice ship had just come to a pause.