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Rather
than
abandon
our
search
I
will
resume
it
alone
!
I
will
either
find
Captain
Grant
or
perish
in
the
attempt
!
"
It
was
a
serious
undertaking
to
which
John
Mangles
bound
himself
;
Mary
accepted
,
and
gave
her
hand
to
the
young
captain
,
as
if
to
ratify
the
treaty
.
On
John
Mangles
'
side
it
was
a
life
's
devotion
;
on
Mary
's
undying
gratitude
.
During
that
day
,
their
departure
was
finally
arranged
;
they
resolved
to
reach
Melbourne
without
delay
.
Next
day
John
went
to
inquire
about
the
ships
ready
to
sail
.
He
expected
to
find
frequent
communication
between
Eden
and
Victoria
.
He
was
disappointed
;
ships
were
scarce
.
Three
or
four
vessels
,
anchored
in
Twofold
Bay
,
constituted
the
mercantile
fleet
of
the
place
;
none
of
them
were
bound
for
Melbourne
,
nor
Sydney
,
nor
Point
de
Galle
,
at
any
of
which
ports
Glenarvan
would
have
found
ships
loading
for
England
.
In
fact
,
the
Peninsular
and
Oriental
Company
has
a
regular
line
of
packets
between
these
points
and
England
.
Under
these
circumstances
,
what
was
to
be
done
?
Waiting
for
a
ship
might
be
a
tedious
affair
,
for
Twofold
Bay
is
not
much
frequented
.
Numbers
of
ships
pass
by
without
touching
.
After
due
reflection
and
discussion
,
Glenarvan
had
nearly
decided
to
follow
the
coast
road
to
Sydney
,
when
Paganel
made
an
unexpected
proposition
.
The
geographer
had
visited
Twofold
Bay
on
his
own
account
,
and
was
aware
that
there
were
no
means
of
transport
for
Sydney
or
Melbourne
.
But
of
the
three
vessels
anchored
in
the
roadstead
one
was
loading
for
Auckland
,
the
capital
of
the
northern
island
of
New
Zealand
.
Paganel
's
proposal
was
to
take
the
ship
in
question
,
and
get
to
Auckland
,
whence
it
would
be
easy
to
return
to
Europe
by
the
boats
of
the
Peninsular
and
Oriental
Company
.
This
proposition
was
taken
into
serious
consideration
.
Paganel
on
this
occasion
dispensed
with
the
volley
of
arguments
he
generally
indulged
in
.
He
confined
himself
to
the
bare
proposition
,
adding
that
the
voyage
to
New
Zealand
was
only
five
or
six
days
--
the
distance
,
in
fact
,
being
only
about
a
thousand
miles
.
By
a
singular
coincidence
Auckland
is
situated
on
the
self-same
parallel
--
the
thirty-seventh
--
which
the
explorers
had
perseveringly
followed
since
they
left
the
coast
of
Araucania
.
Paganel
might
fairly
have
used
this
as
an
argument
in
favor
of
his
scheme
;
in
fact
,
it
was
a
natural
opportunity
of
visiting
the
shores
of
New
Zealand
.
But
Paganel
did
not
lay
stress
on
this
argument
.
After
two
mistakes
,
he
probably
hesitated
to
attempt
a
third
interpretation
of
the
document
.
Besides
,
what
could
he
make
of
it
?
It
said
positively
that
a
"
continent
"
had
served
as
a
refuge
for
Captain
Grant
,
not
an
island
.
Now
,
New
Zealand
was
nothing
but
an
island
.
This
seemed
decisive
.
Whether
,
for
this
reason
,
or
for
some
other
,
Paganel
did
not
connect
any
idea
of
further
search
with
this
proposition
of
reaching
Auckland
.
He
merely
observed
that
regular
communication
existed
between
that
point
and
Great
Britain
,
and
that
it
was
easy
to
take
advantage
of
it
.
