Read "In the Great White Land" by Gordon Stables online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Like all men who are ever likely to do any good in this world, and leave footsteps in the sands of time, Captain Mayne Brace was an early riser.
The stars were still glowing like diamonds in the sky, then, and the merry dancers -- the aurora -- were still at their revels when he turned out to have his bath. A quarter of an hour after this found him on deck.