“Wait and you shall see.”
The airship took its flight from the volcanic valley, leaving the terrified barbarians to themselves.
As straight as the birds could fly the Dart returned to the spot, where the Albatross was nipped in the ice.
Then a descent was made.
The first move was to reverently bury the victims of the massacre and restore things to order aboard the ship.
Then Frank took a quick and comprehensive survey of the ice pack.
He saw that the Albatross lay between two ridges of block ice. It would take a century to dig a channel through with pick and shovel.
But this was not what Frank proposed to do.
He carefully obtained the lay of the ice pack. Then Barney and Pomp began drilling holes four feet deep in the ice.
A line of these holes were drilled at intervals of ten feet, the whole distance of two miles to the open sea.