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AURORA AUSTRALIS. these things I would speak unto you.

¶ Now it came to pass that one of the ofiicers of the ship, who was possessed of a spirit which did make him restless, so that he soon did weary of abiding in one place;

And who had wandered over nearly the whole face of the Earth, both on land and on the sea, in small ships and in great, did commune with himself in this wise.

Lo! this many years have I been like unto an outcast, and have spent my substance in travel; now will I take unto myself a wife, and abide henceforth in the land of my fathers.

¶ But! Behold! the spirit which did possess him was not yet dead, but only scotched, which is to say being interpreted, spiﬂicated, and at the end of the third year it did again awaken, and began to bestir itself forthwith, saying unto the man whose name was Shackleton;

Lo! much of the land which ye went forth to spy out in the ship Discovery is yet undiscovered, and has not therefore been added to the dominions of the Great King.

Now I say unto ye, great shall be the benefit to the people of thy country, when the way to this land