pole?" excl

t way!" crie

do it?" a

he professor, answering them all at

r than going to the north pole, for we w

han at the north, according to all accounts. It is a place of great icebergs, immense floes a

voyage than to the no

ashington, "de poles am

have to cross that before we will be half way to the south pole,

r as well as it did just now, we'

land down there to the sout

ve read all the accounts of other explorers and from the signs they mention

neither he nor any of them dreamed of the ter

of supplies and provisions had to be purchased, for the professor was determined to get all in readiness for the

only thing remaining is to see if she will float, sink when I want her to, and, what is most important, rise to the surface again. For," he adde

p what'll stay down under de water so de fishes gits him!" exclai

" asked Mark wit

a starfish, but I can't wif ten thousand

" commented the professor with a sm

ersisted the colored man. "Sub

next day that they each dreamed they were sailing beneath the waves, and Jack woke M

ter?" inquired

nd I was drowning," explained Jack. "I grabbed the f

to sleep again," said Mark. "I dreamed

before them. The inventor was inspecting the track which had been built from t

Watson and James Penson. They had been b

nced the professor, "and I'm going t

ened a ship," objec

arning," remarke

bottle ob wine?"

Now look sharp, boys. Get your breakfasts and we'l

w instructions about breaking the bottle over the nose of the Porpoise as she slid dow

d away the last of the retaining blocks and eased the s

the professor. "Break

he was so long getting the words out, and so slow in swinging the bottle of soda, that the ship was quite beyond his reach when he had finished his oration. H

pole!" yelled Washington,

s lightly as a cork, though, from the nature of her construction, she was quite low i

ft," he went on, turning to the two machinists. In a few minutes the Porpoise was fastene

essor said. "I am anxious to see if she rides o

ppliances. Then, with the two machinists, they all descended into the interio

ace of the waves and consequently in darkness, the professor swit

tanks, when the water, rushing in, would sink her. There was a tank on either side, and one each fore and aft. If it was desired to sink straight down all four tanks were filled at once. If the pr

as the emptying of them, the starting or stopping of the engine that moved the boat, as well as the control of most of the

which the ship had sunk, the steam pressure, de

reat storage battery, so that in case of a breakdown to the turbin

that was necessary to make a cup of coffee or fry a bee

the heat to create steam. Soon a hissing told that it was working. In a f

ng to travel a short distance under water for the first time. I think th

k said afterward he thought Washington got as

ot make the ship rise, by pulling the lever the top of the craft will be forced off, and, we can at least save our lives. I think we are all ready now. Mark,

look at the various levers and handles, and then turned the wheel that admitted water to all four

she went. Would she ever stop? Would the professor be able t

e was twenty feet below the surface. Then the professor shut off the inr

went out. The boys and Washington gave a gasp

s obeyed. Heavy steel doors that covered plate glass windows in either side

e it seemed that they could touch them, scores of f

ealized that they were in