noon
`` If I served you right , I would drop you through the manhole , just to wake you up . '' Things Material and Spiritual . The wind continued all night as last noted , and Silver Cloud , without a tremor or swaying motion of any kind , was scurrying across the barren wastes of the Arctics at marvelous speed . At noon upon the second day from the Pole , Professor Gray took an observation , and announced that they then were at latitude 68 deg. , 20 min. , longitude 120 deg . 16 min. , West Greenwich . `` We are about crossing the Arctic circle . We are just above the barren grounds north of Great Bear Lake , '' said the Professor .