Our early flights were disappointing in this latter respect; though they afforded us some magnificent examples of the richly fantastic and deceptive mirages of the polar regions, of which our sea voyage had given us some brief foretastes.
Hasierako hegaldiak nahiko etsigarri izan ziren alde horretatik; hala ere, haiek eskaini zizkiguten polo-eremuetako ispilatze biziki fantastiko eta engainagarrien hainbat adibide paregabe (haien zantzu xumeren bat eskainia zigun jada itsas bidaiak).