Astounded, the voyagers regarded the scene for a time in silence.
Then Frank cried:
“On my word I believe we have been carried clean over the continent and out to sea.”
“Begorra, it’s the ocean,” averred Barney.
“Golly! we must hab trabeled pretty fast,” declared Pomp.
But Captain Nicodemus studied the scene below critically and then said decidedly:
“It is the big lake again.”
“What!” exclaimed Frank.
“It is the lake we’re looking for,” declared the mariner. “We have made it at last, thanks to the storm.”
Frank was astounded.