GOING SOUTH INTO THE COLD 29 
On and On They Traveled, Day After Day 
he would have no trouble in finding it in the 
morning. 
But when morning came, a strange thing 
had happened. The ship had vanished! Strain 
his eyes as he might, and look this way or that, 
he could not discover it, and there was not the 
least fog on the sea at that! 
Hastily he spread his wings and flew 
swiftly southward, “For,” he said to himself, 
“there has been no port in sight and they must 
have gone south.” 
But when he had sailed on and on to the 
southward for hours and hours, and had not 
