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` It was in the spring of last year that I sailed the Castle of Blenheim up to latitude 87 degrees Fahrenheit and beat the record . Ladies , ' says Andy , ` it was a sad sight to see a Duke allied by a civil and liturgical chattel mortgage to one of your first families lost in a region of semiannual days . ' And then he goes on , ` At four bells we sighted Westminster Abbey , but there was not a drop to eat . At noon we threw out five sandbags , and the ship rose fifteen knots higher . At midnight , ' continues Andy , ` the restaurants closed . Sitting on a cake of ice we ate seven hot dogs . All around us was snow and ice .