Chapter 16
On the 27th of July, in the morning, a numerous crowd was watching the steamer Mozik, which was about to leave Charleston, the great port of South Carolina. So many were the excursionists wishing to go to Greenland, that, for some days past, not a cabin had been available on board this vessel of fifteen hundred tons, although it was not the only one freighted and bound to the same place. A number of other steamers belonging to different countries were preparing to sail up the Atlantic as far as Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, beyond the limits of the Arctic Polar Circle.
This affluence of passengers was not surprising, considering the excitement of people’s minds since J. B. K. Lowenthal’s communication to the Press. The learned astronomer could not have calculated wrongly. After
