[Redactor's Note: _An Antarctic Mystery_ (Number V046 in the T&M numerical listing of Verne's works) is a translation of _Le Sphinx de Glaces_ (1897) translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey who also translated other Verne works.] AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY BY JULES VERNE TRANSLATED BY MRS. CASHEL HOEY ILLUSTRATED 1899 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. The _Tasman_ to the rescue The approach of the _Halbrane_ Going aboard the _Halbrane_ Cook's route was effectually barred by ice-floes Taking in sail under difficulties "There, look there! That's a fin-back!" Hunt to the rescue Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar Dirk Peters shows the way The half-breed in the crow's-nest The _Halbrane_ fast in the iceberg The _Halbrane_, staved in, broken up "I was afraid; I got away from him" William Guy An Antarctic Mystery The _Paracuta_ TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter I. The Kerguelen Islands. Chapter II. The Schooner _Halbrane_ Chapter III. Captain Len Guy Chapter IV. From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island Chapter V. Edgar Poe's Romance Chapter VI. An Ocean Waif Chapter VII. Tristan D'Acunha Chapter VIII. Bound for the Falklands Chapter IX. Fitting out the _Halbrane_ Chapter X. The Outset of the Enterprise Chapter XI. From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle Chapter XII. Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall Chapter XIII. Along the Front of the Icebergs Chapter XIV. A Voice in a Dream Chapter XV. Bennet Islet Chapter XVI. Tsalal Island Chapter XVII. And Pym Chapter XVIII. A Revelation Chapter XIX. Land Chapter XX. "Unmerciful Disaster" Chapter XXI. Amid the Mists Chapter XXII. In Camp Chapter XXIII. Found at Last Chapter XXIV. Eleven Years in a Few Pages Chapter XXV. "We Were the First" Chapter XXVI. A Little Remnant AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY (Also called THE SPHINX OF THE ICE FIELDS) CHAPTER I. THE KERGUELEN ISLANDS. No doubt the following narrative will be received with entire incredulity, but I think it well that the public should be put in possession of the facts narrated in "An Antarctic Mystery." The public is free to believe them or not, at its good pleasure. No more appropriate scene for the wonderful and terrible adventures which I am about to relate could be imagined than the Desolation Islands, so called, in 1779, by Captain Cook. I lived there for several weeks, and I can affirm, on the evidence of my own eyes and my own experience, that the famous English explorer and navigator was happily inspired when he gave the islands that significant name.