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As a security at
the start he changed his name; and as John Robinson, which was not a
name to attract public attention, he shipped as a passenger on the
Scoriac from London to New York.
The Scoriac was one of the great cargo boats which take a certain
number of passengers. The few necessaries which he took with him
were chosen with an eye to utility in that frozen land which he
sought. For the rest, he knew nothing, nor did he care how or
whither he went. His vague purpose was to cross the American
Continent to San Francisco, and there to take passage for the high
latitudes north of the Yukon River.

When Stephen began to regain consciousness her first sensation was
one of numbness. She was cold in the back, and her feet did not seem
to exist; but her head was hot and pulsating as though her brain were
a living thing. Then her half-open eyes began to take in her
surroundings. For another long spell she began to wonder why all
around her was green. Then came the inevitable process of reason.


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