"Oh, sir," Archie laughed, "I'll never forget that!"
Billy Topsail had never needed to learn.
FOOTNOTE:
[8] It is related by the survivors of the steamship Greenland disaster, of some years ago, in which sixty lives were lost, that one man was in this way carried half a mile over the ice. When he was found, he had gone mad.
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors were corrected
Page 49, "cost" changed to "coast" (a rocky sea-coast)
Page 142, "peninsular" changed to "peninsula" (bleak peninsula to the)
Page 216, "Landside" changed to "Landslide" (Landslide at Little Tickle)