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The sun was as high in the polar heavens as it ever rises in that part of the world. Captain Hubbell stood on the deck of the Dipsey with his quadrant in hand to take an observation. The engines had been stopped, and nearly everybody on the vessel now surrounded him.
"Longitude everything," said Captain James Hubbell, "latitude ninety, which is as near as I can make it out."