“And just so have we been sent on our mission beyond the farthest known edge of the world, shipmates, farther than the Tarshish—which was only in Spain, after all—we have been sent out to where the elements themselves seem to rebel, where lightning crashes from frozen skies, where the cold never relents, where white beasts walk the frozen surface of the sea, and where no man, civilized or otherwise, could ever call such a place home.
