human
I ought also to have said, that there is not a moment to lose. The sledge must be loaded with the provisions at once, and as much wood as possible. I must confess six hundred miles is a long journey, but we can, or rather we must make twenty miles a day, which will bring us to the coast about the 26th of March.
gpt
But cannot we wait a few days yet?
human
What are you hoping for?
gpt
I don't know. Who can tell the future? It is necessary, too, that you should get your strength a little recruited. You might sink down on the road with fatigue, without even a snow hut to shelter you.
human
But think of the terrible death that awaits us here,
gpt
My friends, said Hatteras, in almost supplicating tones;