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At the council or consultation that took place some days after this in the ward-room of the _Walrus_, both Charlie and Walt were present, but, of course, were not supposed to speak.
It was resolved therein that, instead of plunging at once into the great ice-pack, and attempting to find out the South Pole by one bold rush, the two ships should first spend ten or eleven months in sailing completely round the world that lies all beneath or south of the latitudes of Kerguelen and Cape Horn or Tierra del Fuego, and other southern lands around the Antarctic Continent.